After three hours of picketing by two union locals early Dec. 8 to protest a production company's unwillingness to sign a labor agreement that provides health benefits to memb...

THE SUPER SECRETIVE WACHOWSKIS may be ramping up their next movie, with Huffington Post publisher and politico Ariana Huffington, of all people, involved in it. Photos she ...

"We're gaining recognition," says Chicago Screenwriters Network president Sonny Wareham in announcing the start of CSN's second competition, and the addition of several more hig...

CHARISE STUDEVILLE of Lotus Girl Films is in production on a documentary about Common Threads, the organization started by celebrity chef Art Smith of Table 52. The purpose i...

THE 24 HOUR FILM SCHOOL the afternoon of Dec. 12 promises to deliver some real world insights and inside info from four specialists, including that rare Hollywood species in th...

Gov. Pat Quinn's gubernatorial campaign attempts to mitigate the reduced impact of traditional advertising with "Quinn Stories," a weekly series of two-minute webisodes designed...

The announcement that Oprah's Harpo Production would remain in Chicago after Oprah's syndicated show ends in September, 2011, was the best Christmas gift Harpo employees and the...

Come mid-January, The Whitehouse will introduce its first production unit -- a three-person team situated in the post company's Chicago headquarters, where it will produce conte...

THE 75 MEDIA SAVVY FOLKS who attended the HP Envy-sponsored music video edit challenge last Thursday had a great time, despite the fact the challenge they came to cheer turned...

The locally produced, Michael Keaton-directed hitman Christmas drama "The Merry Gentleman" was the big winner at the sold-out Best of the Midwest Awards, held Dec. 1 at Rockit B...

ROD BLAGOJEVICH never ceases to amaze. After enjoying a few blissful months without his breathless media appearances, we began to believe he had hunkered down to study those ...

Global Video officially shuttered its 12-year old VHS duplication facility Friday, when 450 duplicating machines were shipped to an environmentally sound scrap recycling plant i...

BEVERLY RIDGE PICTURES' mob drama "Chicago Overcoat," which premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival, has its West Coast premiere at the Mammoth Film Festival in Mam...

The nine-year-old comedy showcase The Lincoln Lodge has entered a new phase in its three-year partnership with San Francisco comedy syndicators Rooftop Media, including regular ...

Marc Buhmann's RPM Films, an Chicago-based entertainment production company, launched a comedy web series that caricatures three socially awkward friends, who attempt to launc...

Winning advertising competitions are so indispensable to the advertising business that agencies have been known to go to extreme measures to attempt to win those shiny gold trop...

Screenwriter Ken Rance, co-writer of the 2009 film "New in Town," starring Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick, Jr., will be the celebrity judge who will pick the grand prize winn...

Partners Liz Tate and Jim Annerino's Hootenanny editorial boutique moved into expanded new space in the penthouse at 230 E. Ohio, in unique space originally designed and occupi...

NOT EVERY AICE POST HOUSE apparently is in accord with the national organization's PR/ad strategy to bolster the status of independent post house by laying out the value of i...

All good things must come to an end and Oprah's extraordinary 25 year TV run in Chicago will end on Sept. 9, 2011, according to ABC. Oprah's announcement on her Friday show...