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...
THE FILMING OF "PUBLIC ENEMIES" in Wisconsin last week brought Oshkosh an estimated $4 million, a figure based on the that each overnight visitor spent $172 per day and each ...
The IFP is in search mode for a new executive director to succeed popular, energetic Elizabeth Donius who leaves Chicago August 15 to move to Connecticut. The IFP board is ...
As of Monday, April 28, Audio Producers Group (APG) will conduct its first session in a studio across the street from the Leo Burnett building, after four years as an outside-o...
THE ROGER EBERT FILM FESTIVAL April 23-27 in Champaign is topped by such distinguished guests as directors Ang Lee and Paul Schrader. Fest founder Ebert will be absent f...
Detroit-based composer-producer Dan Yessian reluctantly agreed to the pleas of his son, Michael, company rep Helen Kaye to enter his song that they felt had "winner" written all...
Following the advice of Chicago visionary Daniel Burnham, Pixel Brothers' John Patterson is "making no little plans" as he sets in motion positioning Chicago as the New Media Ce...
