ANDREA WASSEL IS MOVING UP in the screenwriting contest world. The former agency producer's comedy script, "Leftovers," climbed to another level closer to the top in the Ame...

National AFTRA and non-broadcast producers reached an agreement for an 18-month extension to the contract that covers on-camera/voiceover for business videos and new media-dist...

After more than two decades in the Chicago area, Sony Itasca is calling it quits and closing forever what had once been its sole equipment purchase and service operation betwee...

Megan Vidis, deputy director of the Illinois Film Office, will leave in mid-May for a position outside of the film industry, for the first time in her career. Starting June...

I didn't go to NAB 2008 in Las Vegas this year for the first time in many years. It now seems like I wasn't the only one to stay at home and follow the biggest show in broa...

While DePaul University refuses to discuss the reasons behind the recent firing of two popular teachers in the Digital Cinema (DC) program, current DC students are going on the...

Google features Pixel Brothers as one of the first companies in its new "Google Success Story," its new division to create TV ads for advertisers, using the same interface us...

SIX NEW HD SPOTS returns the LaSalle St. law of Cochran & Montgomery to TV advertising for the first time since the death in 2004 of Johnny Cochran of O.J. Simpson trial fame. ...

A RARE AND PERFECT CHOICE are Chicago natives Virgina Madsen and her brother, Michael Madsen to MC the SAG Foundation's 75th Anniversary Gala Celebration and Benefit. ...

Screenwriter, director, playwright and DePaul University Theatre School alum Zach Helm ("Stranger than Fiction," "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium") returned to Chicago to be hon...

Global Video has invested $500,000-plus in developing The Virtual Tape Room (VTR Express) that prints to any videotape and optical media format from a file sent to its special ...

With many of Chicago's ad agencies owned by foreign conglomerates, like car dealerships selling foreign brands, even the old "Made in America" is gone from so many products no...

Six Chicago-based AICE editors were among the 51 finalists for the 7th Annual AICE Awards competition, which honors the art and craft of editing. Winners will be honored Ma...

Actor Edward James Olmos raised a glass high to Columbia College film student, Sean J.S. Jourdan, Thursday night when Jordan's short, "An Open Door," was the recipient of a CINE...

The AICP added a committee of 15 persons to judge a new category called Advertising Excellence/Next for the upcoming 2008 AICP Show, which arrives in Chicago five months after ...

A documentary about a little known but heroic WWII legion, produced by former adman Bruce Bendinger and PR guru John Iltis, will premiere May 1 at the Chicago History Museum. ...

Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin's founder and current president, will relinquish management responsibilities as part of a transition designed to ready the legendary documentary produc...

The Wachowskis' new North Side post and special effects studio will give Chicago the Hollywood glitz it has long needed to move it into the foreground of production. The n...

STORY'S BIGGEST JOB EVER, says executive producer Mark Androw, is a two-country shoot for one of the Big Four automakers, whose name or car model he could not disclose. ...

Veteran editors Liz Tate and Jim Annerino opened the doors of their new post boutique, Hootenanny, at a time, Tate says, when ad agencies are ready for leaner, flexible post ho...