With many of Chicago's ad agencies owned by foreign conglomerates, like car dealerships selling foreign brands, even the old "Made in America" is gone from so many products no...
Six Chicago-based AICE editors were among the 51 finalists for the 7th Annual AICE Awards competition, which honors the art and craft of editing. Winners will be honored Ma...
Actor Edward James Olmos raised a glass high to Columbia College film student, Sean J.S. Jourdan, Thursday night when Jordan's short, "An Open Door," was the recipient of a CINE...
The AICP added a committee of 15 persons to judge a new category called Advertising Excellence/Next for the upcoming 2008 AICP Show, which arrives in Chicago five months after ...
A documentary about a little known but heroic WWII legion, produced by former adman Bruce Bendinger and PR guru John Iltis, will premiere May 1 at the Chicago History Museum. ...
Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin's founder and current president, will relinquish management responsibilities as part of a transition designed to ready the legendary documentary produc...
The Wachowskis' new North Side post and special effects studio will give Chicago the Hollywood glitz it has long needed to move it into the foreground of production. The n...
STORY'S BIGGEST JOB EVER, says executive producer Mark Androw, is a two-country shoot for one of the Big Four automakers, whose name or car model he could not disclose. ...
Veteran editors Liz Tate and Jim Annerino opened the doors of their new post boutique, Hootenanny, at a time, Tate says, when ad agencies are ready for leaner, flexible post ho...
THE FILMING OF "PUBLIC ENEMIES" in Wisconsin last week brought Oshkosh an estimated $4 million, a figure based on the that each overnight visitor spent $172 per day and each ...
The IFP is in search mode for a new executive director to succeed popular, energetic Elizabeth Donius who leaves Chicago August 15 to move to Connecticut. The IFP board is ...
As of Monday, April 28, Audio Producers Group (APG) will conduct its first session in a studio across the street from the Leo Burnett building, after four years as an outside-o...
THE ROGER EBERT FILM FESTIVAL April 23-27 in Champaign is topped by such distinguished guests as directors Ang Lee and Paul Schrader. Fest founder Ebert will be absent f...
Detroit-based composer-producer Dan Yessian reluctantly agreed to the pleas of his son, Michael, company rep Helen Kaye to enter his song that they felt had "winner" written all...
Following the advice of Chicago visionary Daniel Burnham, Pixel Brothers' John Patterson is "making no little plans" as he sets in motion positioning Chicago as the New Media Ce...
Screen Actors Guild has sat down at the bargaining table with Hollywood studios and the networks over a new three-year deal on the key issue of improved movie and prime-time TV ...
Come July, with only two suitcases of hardware, a dedicated bandwidth and a T1 internet connection, Mitch Norinsky's Backstar Creative Media will launch a system for producing ...
The Wachowskis' new North Side post and special effects studio will give Chicago the Hollywood glitz it has long needed to move it into the foreground of production. The n...
ELLEN DeGENERES will tape her popular daytime show here May 3, although the taping venue hasn't been announced. Since her show airs on NBC, taping at Ch. 5's big studio seems...
Radar Studios' produced four comedy spots for AirTran Airways/Cramer-Krasselt as part of its internet campaign promoting AirTran U's new "Fly Free 'til You're 23" promotion. ...
