TODD LOOBY’S FEATURE BE GOOD opens Midwest Independent Film Festival’s 2013 season Feb. 5. The Chicago-made indie, written and directed by Looby, stars Amy Seimetz (of recent Sundance
People come. And people go. And at Young & Rubicam/Chicago, one chief creative officer came and another went in very short order this week. Very short order Indeed.
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As the Onion media empire relocates its headquarters from New York to Chicago in July, it arrives bearing gifts: three new webisode series. They’ve been filming at Foundation Content and
So five months after it all began, the ill-fated “The Rosie Show” looks to be near its end — at least as a Chicago-based production.
Rumors first surfaced late Tuesday on
Step right up ladies and gents and get your front row seats! You too can see what promises to be one of the greatest and saddest spectacles in recent television
After six weeks of top-to-bottom renovation, Product Productions’ new full-service Space Stage Studios is up and running in what had been Steve Broderick’s old West Grand
GREG ALLAN’S SONIXPHERE tapped New York-based Clint Arent as director of East Coast business development, to focus on New York agencies. “An increasing amount of our
From the imaginative and colorful opening title sequence of “Close Quarters,” we are in the hands of debut feature filmmaker, Jack C. Newell,
FLETCHER CAMERA DETROIT hired former Grace & Wild digital production guru and workflow specialist Gene Moliterno as sales/marketing liaison for Fletcher Detroit.
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CRITICAL REVIEWS of the debut episode of the Chicago-set NBC series The Playboy Club were, to say the least, disappointing. It attracted a painfully low 1.6/4 rating in the 18-49
The 3rd annual Advertising Community Shorts Night Tuesday at the Midwest Independent Film Festival, Tuesday, Oct. 1, presents the work of 15 filmmeisters from ad and marketing agencies,
A FIRST FOR THE REEL! After years of managing the Reel solo, I am delighted that industry pro Nancy Reid has joined the Reel as VP/development.
In that role, Nancy will
DIGITAL KITCHEN has brought some Cannes glory to Chicago. The Chicago-based collective of more than 100 artists, designers and filmmakers walked off Wednesday with the Grand Prix in the design
All too often creative minds tend to neglect the practical business side until it’s too late. Enter attorney Jerry Glover, who will keep us legal and proper with his good
A minor remodeling accident last week at Cinespace Studios blew out of control when a freelancer allegedly suspected asbestos contamination and decided to play hero and call in an EPA
MANY HOLLYWOOD AND LOCAL EXPERTS will lead seminars and panels May 7 during the Sundance Institute’s ShortsLab:Chicago at Columbia College, showing how filmmakers can show and promote their work, either
Michael Matzdorff is banking on a Wisconsin-anchored theatrical self-release of his feature directorial debut “Feed the Fish” to maintain the comedy’s momentum to Jan. 25, when Strand Releasing puts it
JAY SUKOW of Group Mind Films (“American Legacy”) begins eight days of principal photography Oct. 31 on the company’s second feature-length comedy.
The new film
Video production and creative web firm AKA Media Inc., is Chicago’s sole privately held media company to make Inc. Magazine’s 2010 list of 5,000 fastest growing companies. The
Darryl Roberts, director and producer of the successful beauty industry expos? “America the Beautiful,” is in production on the second part of his “health and beauty series.”
