Eric Anderson and Amelia Dellos have seen their political doc "Red, White & Blue" grow into a $100,000 production with some major musical muscle behind it. Cowboy Junkies ...
VELVET STEAMROLLER PRODUCTIONS has officially signed on to produce L. Pat Williams' horror pic "10,000 Doors." Williams, who co-wrote with her father, composer Robert A. Willia...
Wal-Mart's first documentary made in honor of Black History month?"The Invisible Men of Honor: The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers"?will air exclusively throughout the year on TV ...
STARS HERE IN APRIL. Director Marc Forster's comedy, "Stranger than Fiction," starts shooting April 25 at Chicago locations. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Queen Latifa...
When Chicago Community Cinema re-launches May 3 as the Midwest Independent Film Festival at Landmark's Century Centre, it will be one of the first fests between the coasts to of...
Liquid Generation CEO Bruce Freud is gunning for TV crossover for his successful online venture. Freud is adapting his youth-oriented entertainment site LiquidGeneration.com in...
Dalia Tapia has just returned from Mexico with the last of the footage for her Super 16mm feature "Buscando a Leti/In Search of Leti," which has its world premiere this April at...
Back in the day, the center of the known video universe was the Chicago Chapter of ITVA (International Teleproduction Association). With 500-plus members, it was the ITVA's big...
EURO MEANS BUSINESS. Just moved in are the Chicago brethren of Rubin Postaer Associates (RPA): GCDs Bill Mericle and Paul Janas, copywriter Derrick Halpern, print production dir...
J. Walter Thompson, the world's largest ad agency, has reinvented itself as "JWT," calling the relaunch a "billion dollar startup," with a celebration held Feb. 28 at all JWT's ...
Everyone knows the unparalleled on-court antics of the Harlem Globetrotters, but few today are aware of the team's pivotal role in shattering basketball's color barrier and tran...
Early the other morning Emoto Music's executive producer Paul Schultz got a harried call from Cramer/Krasselt clients. They needed to tweak a sound track Emoto had produced. Cou...
Edward T. McDougal is embarking on the biggest production of his twenty-year career. His new Civil War drama "Dog Jack," featuring battle reenactments with hundreds of extras, s...
Backyard Productions is never one to stand still, always finding a new way to serve emerging trends?like its newly-formed Seed, a content company led by former DDB award-winning...
Director Parris Reaves' fourth film, ghost story "The Evil One," has been released on DVD nationwide. "We're everywhere?even in Target," Reaves said. Shot in summer 2003 on ...
An 18-month effort by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to organize casting directors under Los Angeles Local 399 and New York Local 817 seems be on the brink of succes...
While his "Ray" colleagues wait to see if the movie wins Best Picture and Jamie Foxx is acclaimed best actor, Harry J. Lennix is hanging out on the North Shore. The native C...
While local spot production may be at the bottom of the scale, documentary production for cable can be viewed as a growth industry with the explosion of cable outlets and its vo...
GRANT/JACOBY CLOSES. Mid-size, independent Grant/Jacoby has ridden into the sunset after 62 years on Michigan Ave. The agency employed 25. Inability to lasso new business was it...
NATHYN MASTERS' debut feature, the apocalyptic thriller "The Fourth Beast" about a former army ranger taking on the forces of the Antichrist, was released on DVD Feb. 15 by York...
