took the spotlight MasterCard Superbowl spot for McCann-Erickson/New York that will continue to air, it was that highly acclaimed. Calabash Productions animated nine of 10 i...
NEW LOBBYING FIRM FOR IPA. The Illinois Production Alliance has hired The Illinois Governmental Consulting Group to convince the Illinois legislature to extend the wage tax cre...
A FIRST FILM by screenwriter/journalist Ytasha Womack, the feature-length "Love Shorts" screens Feb. 15 in the Patchwerx Film & Video Series. Womack co-produced with Jumaane N'N...
After 20 years in business as one of the nation's most successful spot animation houses, owners Monica and Ed Newman have sold Calabash on a five-year buyout to two long-term em...
GLANT COHEN, Leo Burnett's SVP/associate director of TV production, retired from the agency after "23 spectacular years" at the agency. He joined Burnett in 1981 to work on McDo...
Fresh off receiving a major grant for his in-progress feature documentary "Nice Bombs," Usama Alshaibi is releasing a DVD compilation of his short works Feb. 12 and preparing fo...
You're an early-stage company with a great idea for a new business but lack financing? The Illinois Venture Capital Association's all-day Midwest Venture Summit 2005 is the plac...
Independent production company Shattering Paradigms Entertainment (SPE) is moving into high gear with two Hi-Def features and an animated TV pilot slated for production th...
Internationally recognized experimental filmmaker Bruce Wood returns to filmmaking after a 25-year hiatus with his debut feature "The Door," shooting Feb. 22-March 22 in C...
Composer Paul Libman, a multiple award-winner for his thousands of commercial jingles and industrial film scores, has found glory in another arena. The 35-year veteran of th...
After looking at the numbers and the expense of renting HD equipment for their "Sound Stage" series, HD Ready partners Joe Thomas and Jim Wolande decided that owning their own H...
J. Walter Thompson/Chicago is "a little agency that has a big future," says top creative Graham Woodall, who was charged with that future when agency president Barry Kraus...
LANCE CATANIA of X-Ray Productions has completed post on his debut feature, the HD horror pic "Cup of My Blood." Catania, a seasoned commercial director/DP, shot on HD in ...
Hizzoner, Richard M. Daley, has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Leadership in the Arts by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Americans for the Arts. The presti...
When Resolution Digital Studios opens the doors to its $7.5 million facility this April, Chicago will have?for the first time ever?a brand new, from the ground up stage comp...
For a comparatively tiny amount of money, HMS Media is producing an ambtious 13-part, half-hour series with the self-explanatory title, "The Chicago Dance Project." The...
It's d?j? vu all over again. In January 1979 I was living and working out of a cozy apartment at 900 N. Michigan Ave. (now Bloomingdale's and million dollar condos). ...
It was a dark and stormy night, metaphorically speaking. Six of us, all aspiring screenwriters, were gathered at the Perfect Cup, a cozy neighborhood cafe on Chicago's North Sid...
After five tough weeks of negotiations, SAG and AFTRA agreed to a new contract with studios and networks worth $200 million over the next three years. Under the new contrac...
WARNER BROS. SETS MAJOR FEATURE IN CHICAGO. A remake of a Korean movie now called "Il Mare" ("The Sea") will start shooting in mid-March and is expected to be here for fou...
