Writers Guild members who voted overwhelmingly, on both coasts, to authorize a strike, now wait with baited breath as the negotiating committee meets today with AMPTP
THE DGA RATIFIED its new collective bargaining agreements with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) by an overwhelming membership vote.
“Our major gains in SVOD residuals, together with
CONSPIRACY ADDS TWO: Kyle Howard, a former New York editor, specializing in fashion and beauty commercials, to its
THE AICP NEXT AWARDS held last night in New York as part of AICP Week, presented its 2015 Most
With the acquisition earlier this month of veteran editor/director Kevin McGurn’<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on
In a March Madness of their own, Local 600 and Local 476 members who work on “Empire,” “Chicago PD” and “Chicago Fire” camera and
Michigan’s amended tax incentive bill, calling for an extension of the $50 million-a-year rebate program to 2021,
When she held the office of State Treasurer, Judy Baar Topinka, who died Tuesday of a stroke, was the Illinois
In a 32-4 vote, Michigan’s Senate last week approved a bill to extend and improve the state’s film tax credit program, which was
DAN WAYMACK, DICTIONARY FILM’S NEW DIRECTOR/DP filmed the entire Colorado town of Crested Butte, population, 1,500, for Bud Light/Energy BBDO’s
DON’T EXPECT THE DGA to fill the executive director’s position in the Chicago office anytime soon – if at
If this year was feeling more optimistic for the advertising business, it’s because 2014 is shaping up to be one of the best
When Teri Rogers, CEO of Kansas City-based T2 Studios, felt it was time to expand her fast-growing experiential division XL, she went against the traditional wisdom
Three famous Chicago native filmmakers, who established their reputations during the shocking turbulence surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, are returning this week as a team to document the
Michigan moved closer to new film incentives Dec. 1 with the House Commerce Committee revising SB 569 and sending it out of committee with a passing vote of 16-1.
The Film
Michigan’s formerly flourishing film industry had some life breathed into it by the senate’s passage of the Film Production Assistance Program (SB 569), a project-by-project grant-based funding system that has
A big treat is ahead for area film students –- or any interested camera person, for that matter — with the special workshop headed by A-lister cinematographer Anastas
Draftfcb has laid off the largest number of employee at one time with its cut of 10% of the Chicago workforce, or 100 jobs out of the agency’s estimated 1,000
THE COMEBACK of commercial production business this past year is a sure signal that the economy is rebounding, as production expenditures are up by 5% and nearly back to 2008
