Writer/director Jeremy Passmore, who wrote "Red Dawn" that recently wrapped in Detroit and is at work on John Carpenter's "The Prince," will be one of the industry insiders pres...

A quartet of happy campers returned from three days in L.A. talking to studio execs with big smiles on their faces and signed with collective relief, as it looks like Chicago's ...

CHICAGOANS AT SUNDANCE expected this weekend at Park City, Utah include Fox TV's Robin Robinson and Ch. 7's Sylvia Perez, providing TV coverage of the festivities; Julee W...

Matt Wechsler of Hourglass Films is the one-man crew for the restaurant and bar web series "Chicago Eats TV," which has gone weekly. "I'm a food lover myself and a Chicago...

OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR Phillip Seymour Hoffman will appear Jan. 28 at the Music Box for a special screening of his directorial debut, "Jack Goes Boating." It's a story about two...

The new two-year commercials contract between the DGA and the AICP covers salary increases, the adoption of a code of preferred practices on creative rights and provisions prote...

Pixel Brothers' partners Mike Torchia and Dave Moravec must feel like Mark Twain who once famously stated, "The report of my death is greatly exaggerated." Despite the fallo...

"Leverage," returning to TNT Jan. 13 for another season of 15 episodes, will have "newer, better, cooler types of gadgets in general," says Twisted Media's Derek Frederickson, w...

Pixel Brothers is one "brother" short with the split last month of partner Andrew Ryann, who left the company he helped found six years ago to return to his roots: producing co...

Increased commercial shoot days were the only growth sign amid an otherwise listless local production industry in 2009, based on figures from the Chicago Film Office. Studio ...

OSCAR-WINNING CINEMATOGRAPHER Guillermo Navarro ("Pan's Labyrinth") shot the new integrated campaign Cramer-Krasselt created and launched new product zendough.com, from C-K cli...

Inside a Glenview garage, three friends who admit they have no “real jobs,” just a passion for the internet, produce video internet shows on modern pop culture on a network ...

Red Car staffers perfectly channeled the 1960's "Mad Men" era of advertising, even down to the lone woman secretary, in this photo taken at the editorial company's holiday party...

The 30th DGA Best Commercial Director Awards for 2009 has named five internationally acclaimed directors -- with MJZ's earning its seventh multiple nominations in eight years. ...

VINCE VAUGHN will team up with director Ron Howard for the first time this spring on an untitled comedy about infidelity. Vaughn always can be counted on to boost Chicago a...

Milwaukee digital marketing firm Fullhouse Interactive will expand its Chicago presence mid-month, as client MillerCoors rolls out a Super Bowl mobile game that Fullhouse develo...

DP IAN ISSITT of New Bound Media and producer/director Angela Snow of Chicago/L.A.-based To the Moon Productions, are shooting a documentary following circus acts that will co...

Sundance and CineVegas programmer Mike Plante bought lunch one day for a filmmaker friend. "Instead of owing me lunch, why not make a film for that same money?" Plante writes i...

IN TWO SPOTS for Advocate Lutheran General/Hoffman York, Milwaukee, Robert von Bjal, placed live action performances into a virtual set, comprised of synthetic lighting and pro...

Simage Network has ambitious plans for the year ahead and is seeking new ideas to be part of them. "We are taking pitches for original programming, just on a micro scale,"...