David O'Connor will invest approximately $2 million in the purchase, remodeling and equipping of a West Loop building he purchased that will triple the amount of space his O'Con...

Producer Linda Wolfe is becoming the Barbara Walters of Chicago with the launch of Views on Cue, her interviewing company that focuses exclusively on real people and their stori...

Infused with a batch of proven new talent from Dallas, Vitamin, the digital media arm of Filmworkers Club, has been relaunched and revitalized with plans for expansion into bro...

Life-sized cardboard cutouts of actual children from the Off the Street Club will greet passersby at Michigan Ave. and Pioneer Court Sept. 25, in Euro RSCG's all-day fund-raisin...

HOLLYWOOD MAKEUP ARTIST MAURICE STEIN is helming a Local 476 makeup techniques seminar today through Monday at Essanay Studios, organized by member/makeup artist Helen Marchf...

Director and futurist David Rosen returned from the recent L.A. Collision Conference with great excitement over the merging of still and motion HD technologies. He reports on ...

The lightning speed of postproduction by Chicago HD and a team of editors and audio mixers took Lollapalooza 2009 from Millennium Park to FUSE TV in four days after the last mus...

FOR FAMOUS FOOTWEAR DIGITAL David Rosen directed two high energy short films modeled after a classic ice cream truck, with a "shoe man" donning a white uniform and a jingling be...

Nicholas J. Michalak's "P.I. Dangerous," which will start shooting in Chicago this month, is the third of a trio of dark, brooding crime films that he will complete this year. ...

Louisiana's legislature turbocharged film incentives this year by raising the tax credit to 30%, after it had been scheduled to drop from 25% to 15% by 2012 and killing its suns...

Roger Ebert will make a special guest appearance at the closing ceremonies of the Naperville Film Festival, one of ten film festivals being held in Chicago and Downstate this mo...

The Cramer-Krasselt duo of copywriter Andrei Chahine and art director Ryan Stotts are the winners of Optimus' second annual "One Shot" contest. The script's subject, non-pr...

Leo Burnett, the agency whose signature was big bowls of apples that greeted guests, has hired a Big Apple creative star and modern Peggy Olsen story as its chief creative offi...

"September:The Chicago Convergence Month" offers the riches of many industr-related events to TCC's 2,600 members, as a scaled-down Summit originally planned for Sept. 21-23. ...

For the Chicago Creative Club Awards "No Show" Sept. 10, the awards committee wants everyone in the advertising/production business to be part of the "celebration of great Chic...

Don't laugh, but spot business may be as accurate an economic indicator as any on Wall Street, just maybe not as scientific. Consider: In recessionary times, corporations sh...

When the historic Portage Theater on the Northwest Side reopened in 2006, attracting independent filmmakers was an important goal of the revitalization, says Dennis Wolkowicz, m...

COMMERCIALS RULE this month, as a slew of bicoastal production companies are here or en route to shoot national spots on city streets with local crews and equipment. Th...

A year shy of Media Process Group's 25th anniversary, founder Bob Hercules credits his 1989 indie documentary "America's Classic Ballparks" with knocking the MPG success story ...

The celebrity-studded Windy City West party -- a reunion for Chicagoans working in Hollywood -- returns after a four-year absence and Brenda Sexton is again helming the sold-out...