Filmmaker Misty Tosh and her friends are adventurous souls who also love to eat out in offbeat restaurants and cafes they find in unspoiled locales. They combined their s...
Want to win $100 and a case of beer every week for a year? That prize is yours if your commercial for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer is picked by the Pabst people to run in a DVD of in...
A chance meeting on an L.A. street between rapper DMX and novice filmmaker Raymond Thomas led to DMX' company optioning Thomas' first short film to developing it into a feature....
After searching for a new theatre for their improv shows and classrooms for almost four years, Annoyance Production founders Mick Napier and Jennifer Estlin leased "ideal theatr...
The character-driven story is about nine Little League misfits who are reunited by the death of their former coach. The coach leaves his beloved Windy Field baseball stadium lo...
Recognizing the revenue potential from licensing content assets from its immense 50-year old library, Ch. 11 hired licensing expert Barry O'Connell and formed a new department e...
John Zwierzko, a.k.a. Johnny Z returned to JWT as a producer, engineer and sound designer. A 22-year agency veteran, he nonetheless was canned during a wave of firings 17 mont...
A RAD APPROACH I-Cubed's Arturo edited five spots for Alberto VO-5 through its new agency, Element 79, of which he created three "more radical ?pushed' versions," he said. Denn...
Feeling the time was right to strike out on his own, composer/producer Brian Crane has opened Braincase, a music and sound design shop at 225 W. Huron. Crane said in equipp...
The Chicago Advertising Federation will bestow its prestigious Silver Medal Award upon Bob Scarpelli for his 27 years of dedication to the Chicago advertising community. Sc...
Actress Ellie Weingardt attended the recent HBO Comedy Film Fest in Aspen where the locally-produced comedy feature, "Bad Meat," has its world premiere. Weingardt (above with w...
Joe Pytka departed from his signature grunge look to deck himself out in a tux, his long blondish-gray flowing around his shoulders, to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award from ...
Scott Smith's collection of 40 South Shore Railroad 1920s posters go on sale March 12 at August House Studio, 2113 W Roscoe. The colorful posters had decorated the walls of Smi...
The business of indie film production is revealed in the popular annual "From Concept to Distribution" series, conducted by savvy entertainment attorneys Bob Labate and Tim Kell...
Ted Allen, the food and wine specialist from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," is Chicago's newest TV star. Despite the recognition he's found on Bravo/NBC, he still make...
The city will be replete with A-list actors when the fifth in the "Batman" series films in Chicago starting in late July and running through August. "Batman Begins" is direc...
When Jeff Santo's 86-minute documentary about his father Ron Santo ended during a sneak preview at a Cubs convention at the Hilton in January, the SRO crowd of more than 1,000 g...
Women in the Director's Chair opens its 23rd annual film festival on March 13 with a reception honoring director Catherine Hardwicke and a screening of her acclaimed indie featu...
FLYING HIGH. IFO director Brenda Sexton returns from her sixth L.A. trip in 11 months reporting tremendous interest" in the wage tax credit bill from meetings set up by MPAA lob...
Richard T. Celenza Jr. grew up in a family of gamblers. As a young man he ran small-time card games and worked as a bookie "before the Internet took over the industry," h...