Twenty years ago this fall, Roy Skillicorn, who was at the peak of his career as a top print and motion rep, and his friend, director Blair Stribley, whose young commercial comp...

Up in scenic Northwest Michigan, known for its magnificent scenery and summer recreation, a large stage complex has quietly opened in Manistee, a Victorian port city on the shor...

Domain Communications of Carol Stream is off to its "best-ever start to a year" in 2009, which is the full service audio company's 45th year in business, Chicago's oldest contin...

THREE GOLD AURORA 2008 AWARDS for documentaries went to Bitter Jester Creative, a creative content company in Highland Park that's led by CD Nicolas DeGrazia, DP Daniel Kull...

In a reverse angle, California-based FilmCore has opened a branch in Chicago, a decided change of pace from Chicago editorial houses branching out on the West Coast. Editor A...

IFP's annual Spring Producers Series, "Eye Witness: Focus on Documentaries," covers the nuts and bolts of developing, marketing and distributing documentary films, starting wit...

Jamie King and Joy Schwartz were named co-presidents of Euro RSCG Chicago. King returns to Chicago from serving as president/CEO of Publicis & Hal Riney San Francisco. Schwart...

While the 2016 Chicago Olympic Committee has been capturing dazzling vistas to showcase the city, two agency veterans want to show the world the diversity, soul and spirit of t...

LOVE IS IN THE AIR for the first Hollywood project to be shot in Chicago so far this year, breaking the nine-month dry spell and portending more business ahead. The NBC ha...

Dear Abby: It is very admirable of Leo Burnett to work with the Olympic Committee to help bring the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago, a civic endeavor subsidized by many businesses ...

ACCORDING TO RELIABLE SOURCES, one of the A-List L.A. directors, who came here for the Leo Burnett/Olympic Committee shoot last week, got into a bit of trouble at the wrap par...

Dear Ruth: I am deeply concerned with the story you ran and I'd like to request that you correct all the factual inaccuracies contained therein immediately, namely: We hav...

Jim Belushi will be one of the Friends of Bill Hogan hosting a March 24 fundraiser on behalf of the former Teamsters official, as he defends his right to free speech. In a b...

IF YOU'VE BEEN COUNTING, Chicago has been bereft of Hollywood feature production for nine months. "Public Enemies" wrapped last June, after six months of spending quite a bi...

Producer Malachi Leopold wants to fly to the Sudan next month for a month of filming the poignant story of one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan, who will reunite with his parents a...

Among the three films Split Pillow has in the works are a feature that starts shooting in May, and a documentary in progress that will finish shooting this year. In the meant...

A copywriter persuades with concepts and language. Agility with words is just one element in the toolkit. When I added "hypnotist" to my business card, I acquired more train...

Leo Burnett imported Los Angeles directors and personnel to shoot footage for Chicago 2016 Olympic "bid films" aimed at showing the International Olympic Committee's Evaluation...

IFP'S 2009 PRODUCERS SERIES April 4-6 and April 18-29 at Columbia College focuses on documentaries. Toplining the series is a Kartemquin trio of creative director Gordon Qui...

FILMWORKERS NEW GENERAL MANAGER is 14-year veteran Manuela Hung, who now manages Filmworkers and Astro Labs in Chicago and Dallas and Lift motion graphics division in Chic...