Two international posthouses have joined their established Chicago sister editorial company to form a powerhouse collective of talent and services, located in new 9,000-sq. ft. facilities in the Tribune Tower.
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AFTER A TOO LENGTHY PERIOD of promotional inactivity, Chicago/Illinois’ film interests will finally make a formal appearance in Hollywood Aug. 1. Gov. Pat Quinn has been invited to speak and
A year after Gov. Pat Quinn led the groundbreaking ceremonies, $80 million Cinespace is starting to come together like the major Hollywood-like studio complex it promised it would be.
Gala Catering
THE ILLINOIS FILM OFFICE hired seasoned location scout Raul Esparza as assistant managing director/location manager, replacing Todd Lizak who officially retired in January. He was asked to return to the
Filmmaker Martin Rodahl of 71 Degrees North productions and crew will shoot real people in four western states June 11-17. When completed, the 2-minute interviews that will run on client
A CONTINGENT OF SOME 50 ADFOLKS from Chicago and another 15 from Detroit and Minneapolis will descend on the South of France for the 59th Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity,
If Cameron Mackintosh can pull it off, he certainly will have achieved the greatest marketing coup of this or any year in the movie business — a business that has,
Fletcher Camera & Lenses is going where the action is. The 25-year old rentals company in the process of opening a branch office in New Orleans – the number three
Northbrook-based private equity firm Sterling Partners acquired a majority interest in five-year old Tribeca Flashpoint Academy (TFA). The school, which has an enrollment of about 600
FEATURE/TV DIRECTOR ROGER KUMBLE, in town to direct an episode of the MTV series “Underemployed,” is the featured
THE PILOT, “LIFE SUPPORT,” a sitcom about a support group for people in support groups, starring some of Chicago’s funniest stand-ups, actors, and improvisers screens at
A total of $50,000 in grants were awarded to eight digital projects, out of 116 applications submitted for the Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation and administered by <a href="http://chicagofilmmakers.org/cf/content/chicago-digital-media-production-fund-2012-finalists"
Energy BBDO’s May 7 Creative Salon is being held on a Monday this month rather than its traditional Thursday afternoon, to accommodate the magazine deadline of
Documentary films are where the action is these days. As features become chiefly high-concept driven comic book cartoons, the doc genre is where human stories can be told.
So the more
THE COLONIE’S partner/editor Bob Ackerman edited a Draftfcb/San Francisco Levi’s clever Dockers’ spot, “Phone Booth” for release in cinemas throughout Europe and directed by Caviar Content’s Bram Coppens of
Like it or not, the Internet and its seemingly infinite possibilities for marketing products have been all the rage in the advertising world for years.
So for we jaded types who
One hundred to 200 guests who turn up at an industry event is standard, 300 is darn good – but the 650 people who work as crew members attending last
After 80 years of on-and-off efforts to merge the two national talent unions, history was made March 30 when the members of national SAG and AFTRA voted in amazingly high
There’s going to be a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on when movies about punk rockers like The Mekons, Detroit’s MC5 and The Stooges and special appearances by musicians, filmmakers and
THE BIG BOMBSHELL this past week involves celebrated monologist Mike Daisey, whose The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was pulled from a planned presentation at the <a href="http://www.thechicagotheatre.com/"
