Energy BBDO will have a lock on Illinois Lottery advertising and marketing for the next 10 years, with Gov. Pat Quinn having named Northstar Lottery Group as the private mang...

The Naperville Independent Film Festival opened Friday night with John Wesley Norton's West Suburban horror spoof, "Paranormal Calamity," followed by an opening night cocktail...

DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH'S "CONTAGION" arrives in Chicago Oct. 19 as a worthy successor to "Transformers 3" in terms of big budget, cast and shooting schedule. Heading ...

TEAMWORKS MEDIA produced three PSA campaigns for the Big Ten Conference that have started running on the Big Ten Network:: A second season for "Big Ten Fan Camp;" a revised "...

FIVE MICHIGAN MADE MOVIES are featured at the Toronto Film Festival, Sept. 9-19. "These films are not only a success with the critics, they are a success for Michigan's economy...

"THE SHORTS COLLECTION" of seven short films made by six Beverly Ridge Pictures members during their 2004-2006 Columbia College student days will air on Chicago Cable 25 o...

R. KELLY'S LATEST MUSIC VIDEO that recently went out into the world is as close to an all-Chicago production as one could ask for from a globally popular artist like Kelly. ...

The next time you attend an IMAX experience check the credits to see where the film was made. There's a good chance it was produced by Don Kempf's Giant Screen Films/D3D Ci...

It looks like Chicago's once-thriving Christian filmmaking sector, which virtually disappeared a few years ago with the much lamented demise of the popular Christian "VeggieTale...

With "tons of internet business" flowing in, Foundation Content has hired Ben Poster as director/editor/interactive, who moves after five years as an Arc Worldwide art director....

Networking flashmob "Meeting Massive" opened the cutting edge Chicago Motion Graphics Festival, running through Saturday, which has expanded mightily over the past five years to...

BIG, IMPORTANT NEW SOUNDS are coming from Mindy Verson and David Kaplan's Audio Producers Group as they are now representing 15 chart-topping musical recording artists, for...

Roger Ebert returns to television next January with a new weekly half-hour show, "Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies," produced by Chaz and Roger Ebert, and featuring two co-ho...

Video production and creative web firm AKA Media Inc., is Chicago's sole privately held media company to make Inc. Magazine's 2010 list of 5,000 fastest growing companies. The...

Chicago Recording Company created Freelancerinc.com "to address the interests and needs of the new society of freelance professionals," says CRC VP Michael Gullickson, who manag...

Elise and Gregg Jaffe were all grins as 75 friends, family, vendors, freelancers, and clients celebrated their Chicago-based Big Teeth Productions' five-year anniversary as a on...

Grant Gustafson, award-winning spot editor known for his high-profile work on Anheuser Busch brands, has joined Cutters, from a dozen years at The Whitehouse and its predecesso...

ARU Recording has formalized its various additional music services into a new breakout division, Tonic Music, headed by ARU's music supervisor Jessie LaBelle and offering origi...

Some 300 guests are expected to attend WIF's fifth annual Focus Awards Oct. 14 at the Mart Plaza Hotel, when Ch. 11 producer Jamie Ceaser and broadcaster/activist Merri Dee wil...

Although the fall season has only just begun, Joone Studios and Zombie Army Productions are already into deep into Halloween, with Season 2: "The Days of the Living Dead," a w...