FTW equipment to be auctioned May 18
The Tuesday, May 18 auction of Film & Tape Works will include the auctioning one of the 30-year old company’s most important asset: its client list.
The Tuesday, May 18 auction of Film & Tape Works will include the auctioning one of the 30-year old company’s most important asset: its client list.
A NEW CHIEF CREATIVE FOR DDB after a two year search appears to be Ewan Paterson, 42, ECD at London’s Cemmow Horby Inge & Partners.
One way to build an indigenous film industry is to educate people who can help make it happen. In Chicago that would be the folks on LaSalle Street.
After 30 years in business, Film & Tape Works has become the latest production company to fall victim to the economy and changing technology and closed its doors March 31.
It looks like HD has arrived at the consumer home entertainment level. Sears is now selling Samsung 3D television sets, although there are no 3D movies on DVD or shows
Wal-mart and Procter & Gamble are partnering in an initiative to produce “family friendly” made-for-TV movies which gives new meaning to branded entertainment.
Their program, “Secrets of
Billy Federighi and Chris Storer grew up making short films together. They moved to L.A. eight years ago, where Federighi became a rising commercial director.
Jerry Bryant’s “JBTV” music show will give the home of the world’s largest music festival something to remember when Bryant brings 28 of the best Chicago rock, punk and hip
HUNGRY MAN of New York, famous for its creative directors and take on comedy commercials, has won the Commitment to Excellence Award for TV commercials from the 2010
Michigan’s film incentives, one of the five top movie-making states, boosted film revenues from $125 million in 2008 to an estimated $223.6 million in 2009, according to the just-released 2009
Midwinter Studios, financial expert Brett D. Thompson’s multimedia production company, has gotten off to an auspicious start.
Since its debut last August, Midwinter’s inaugural feature, “The Scenesters,”
WELCOME BACK, ROGER! It looks like Roger Ebert is returning to television with a new syndicated movie review show from Chicago, expected to be taped
Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent, teams up with prodigious producer (57 films, seven currently in production) Randall Emmett for their fourth movie together, to be shot in Grand Rapids in
While the state of TV commercial production is changing as fast as new apps are created, it remains a robust $5 billion industry, when factoring in post, talent payments and
Unity Studios in Allen Park, which recently graduated 106 students in the inaugural class of the Lifton Institute of Media Skills, will start production in March on a feature film
THE LATEST ILLINOIS LOTTERY COMMERCIAL, this one for the Mega Millions game, via Energy BBDO, was directed by bi-coastal MJZ’s Dante Ariola and edited by Peepshow Post of
It sure looks like the new syndicated “The Nate Berkus Show,” from Harpo Productions/Sony Pictures Television (SPT), will be produced at Harpo’s West Side studios.
Although no
MULTI-TALENTED ANDY RICHTER, Conan O’Brien’s former writer and sidekick, is back atop the list of commercial directors represented by Story, now that “Late Show with Conan O’Brien”
Grand Rapids has earned bragging rights to “the world’s largest sound stage” as Hangar42 Studios’ 450,000-sq. ft. full-service film production studio opens for business in that West Michigan city.
The lighting class of Dave Moravec of Pixel Brothers, a part-time Columbia College instructor for many years, had the distinction of inaugurating Columbia College’s new $21 million Media Production Center