Karma Entrepreneurs founder, Davis Jones, is calling out to Chicago filmmakers to collaborate on an innovative new web series, designed to promote musician/composer Justin Sconz...

When the Shedd Aquarium reopened its Oceanarium exhibit recently after a nine-month, $50 million facelift, it included a 3D animated video of a South African penquin habitat, cr...

THE CHICAGO COMEDY TV PILOT COMPETITION, designed to burnish Chicago's international reputation for comedy, returns for the third year July 22, with six half-hour pilots competi...

Celebrating their 25th anniversary, Ralph Murnyak and Kevin Blake's Image Base corporate production house is a rarity today, a thriving survivor of seismic technology changes th...

The June 14 debut of the second season of HBO's popular vampire series also marked the debut of Digital Kitchen's evolution to a hybrid agency for brands, while it remains one o...

It's official: The actual economic benefits of "Public Enemies" filming in the state were made known today, a full year after production ended. According to the Illinois Film...

Chicago actor/director Morocco Omari won the Best Short Film Award from the recent Hollywood Black Film Festival for "The (Mis)Leading Man," produced by casting director Sharon ...

Despite having recently cut back staff and office space, 3to1 studio's Josh Reichlin claims that a philosophy of cheerleading on behalf of their clients is keeping them busier ...

At last! After nearly a year of contentious wrangling between SAG and the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, SAG members voted overwhelmingly to approve a ne...

THE HOTTEST TICKETS IN TOWN were those issued by Universal Studios for the Chicago preview of "Public Enemies" that screened in two theatres in the River East 21 complex Thurs...

DIRECTOR HAROLD RAMIS receives the "Just for Laughs" Lifetime Achievement Award at the red carpet screening of Columbia Pictures' "Year One" at the Music Box, June 16. The...

Former Jerry Springer producer Richard Dominick is one of several Chicago-Hollywood producers teaming with Pixel Brothers (PBI) as the studio moves into the realm of entertainme...

A "PUBLIC ENEMIES" PRESS JUNKET by Universal Studios is scheduled for June 18 in Chicago, with the conference to be held at Union Station, we hear. A full complement of stars...

Burrell Communications bested three other minority agencies to win an initial two-year, $6.4 million Illinois Lottery contract to provide advertising and PR targeted to African ...

Stephen Cone returned to his apartment/production office the day after shooting wrapped on his sophomore feature, "In Memoriam: A Comedy," to find his movie had been stolen. ...

Potential entrants of Optimus' second annual "One Shot" contest, that will produce the winning 30-second script as a high-quality commercial, will meet June 10 at Optimus for a ...

The sold-out June 11 Portfolio Night 7 in Chicago ? best described as "speed dating" for advertising students and agency creative directors ? will be one of 22 such events takin...

Digital feature "Four," the 40-minute, ambitious MFA thesis film of writer/director Patrick Wimp, the first-ever MFA graduate of DePaul University's Digital Cinema program, will...

Zacuto will exhibit 30 recently released products at Cine Gear Expo 2009 in L.A. this weekend. The innovative light weight DSLR Gunstock Shooters are included in the newest ite...

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Michael Mann's 1930s crime movie "Public Enemies," which spent $25 million filming in Chicago and the state last year, will have various premi...