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,"...

Michigan film spending jumped to $214 million in 2009. More than 130 applications for movie and TV show projects were approved for the incentives, and 84 projects finished fil...

The state of Hawaii laid off most of its film office employees, to an outcry from film industry executives and artists who warned that Hawaii may miss out on some lucrative Holl...

Chicago's only major representation at the Slamdance Film Festival will open the 15th annual alternative to Sundance Jan. 22 in Park City, Utah, with a Jan. 27 encore screening....

CHICAGOANS HEADING FOR SUNDANCE will find a haven in Park City, Utah at the snazzy Jan. 23 cocktail party hosted on behalf of Columbia College by Denis Healy, Brenda Sexton a...

LOCAL 476'S ELECTION OF OFFICERS retained Mark Hogan as business agent of the 800-member union for a second term, and voted in three new officers, president Tom Glynn, wh...