After running a thriving ad agency in stealth mode for nearly five years, founder Otis Gibson felt it was time to introduce GERTRUDE to the community. Why the silence, not ev...

Now in its 21st year, the DePaul Theatre School Awards for Excellence in the Arts will be presented to actors Michael Shannon and Angela Bassett and director and alum Dennis Du...

"Little Green Men," a timely TV series about living green in U.S. cities, appropriately bows on Earth Day, April 22 over WYCC-Ch. 20 analog and Ch. 21 digital. The six-part, ...

KARTEMQUIN FILMS' LONG RANGE PLANS under executive director Justine Nagan are taking shape with two new additions. Martin Perdoux is the new Director of Development, ...

The Wisconsin legislature's Joint Finance Committee is still weeks away from discussing the commerce portion of Gov. Jim Doyle's proposed budget, but the governor and his fello...

After three months of negotiations, the Joint SAG-AFTRA National Board on Saturday unanimously voted to approve the new three-year television commercials contract, which provid...

Sam Fishkin's audio post Mix Kitchen is having a growth spurt in agency spots delivered via new media, serving up a smorgasbord of interactive and mobile sound for major adverti...

Michigan's film industry took a giant step forward with Los Angeles-based Unity Studios launching a $146-million state-of-the-art production studio in Allen Park, a Detroit sub...

A new design studio, mr. moqo, headed by graphic designer Robert von Bjal, has opened in shared space with Hootenanny and fxphd, where he will become part of the collaboration a...

"The sky's the limit for video production right now," claims Liquidus Media's Kirk Davis. "And we're giving advertisers the ability to put video just about anywhere it will go....

In the TV world of head-spinning change, it's rare when a show can sustain itself, night after night, for a quarter of a century, as WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" has done. In ...

Evanston isn't known as a hotbed of feature work, but Studiomedia Recording, located in the suburb's picturesque downtown area, snagged recent Hollywood gigs from directors Haro...

With 10 West Studios up and running in West Michigan, the state currently has two stage facilities ? the other being Grace & Wild ? and a third, the $70 million Motown Motion P...

After a series of near-disasters from the time producer Malachi Leopold left Chicago in a snowstorm April 5, he and his doc subject, Lost Boy of the Sudan Kuek Garang, and a sm...

THE AUDIENCE AWARD for the best documentary went to Fulton Market Films' "Being Bucky," at the recent Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, one of only films so honored out of ...

Any substantial, new advertising account that lands in Chicago these days is a reason for rejoicing and DraftFCB's winning MillerCoors' Miller Lite was reason to break out the,...

Kartemquin Films has won its second prestigious Peabody Award for filmmaker Maria Finitzo's timely documentary, "Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita." Finitizo will a...

Don Pogany and Arturo Cubacub had the honor of taping World War II veterans aboard an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., for the soldiers' first visit to the World War II Memoria...

Call it two legends united for one exciting night Friday in historic Bronzeville. Melvin Van Peebles, the filmmaker who himself made history heralding a new era of African A...

THE NEW FREDDY KRUEGER, who can be seen behind a mask in "Watchmen," will be wearing the iconic glove in the latest iteration of "Nightmare on Elm Street." Jackie Earle ...