Reel 360 News

Maximum Effort brings deadvertising to Walking Dead finale

“Hollywood on State” to honor Chicago filmmakers

By Daniel Patton Feb 21, 2017

The Gene Siskel Film Center’s 14th annual “Hollywood on State” Oscar night viewing party this Sunday promises to satisfy all kinds of movie lovers, including those with a ...

DDB Worldwide’s global female leadership push

By Colin Costello Feb 17, 2017

Recognizing that the number of female creative leaders in advertising is disproportionate to the large number of existing female talent, DDB Worldwide has launched a bold new gl...

Flow Motion Media dispels myths about music videos

By Marita Gomez Feb 17, 2017

While scouting locations at Heritage Middle School in Berwyn and Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing for the music video for “Space Hustler,” Flow Motion M...

Industry band “The 476’ers” to play for “Blood Money”

By Daniel Patton Feb 17, 2017

A rock band consisting almost entirely of Local 476 members will gig Saturday night at the Cobra Lounge as part of a preproduction event for the feature-length gangster vampire ...

After 3 years in NYC, Cutters editor Yergler back in Chicago

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 10, 2017

Returning to his roots at Cutters Studios Chicago s award-winning editor Cameron Yergler, after spending three years at Cutters New York, announced Cutters’ managing dire...

Catfish Music helps get kids off streets and into studios

By Colin Costello Feb 10, 2017

In an effort to get deserving inner-city youth off the streets and into the music studio, veteran composer Jeff Boyle’s Catfish Music is working to find music companies that w...

Two-part doc puts a human face on state budget crisis

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 10, 2017

“Stranded by the State,” is a two-part documentary special presented by Urbana-based Illinois Public Media focusing on the long-term toll that the Illinois budget cris...

REEL MICHIGAN

Lowing Light & Grip buys Deano’s Grand Rapids’ studio

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 8, 2017

Wyoming, Michigan-based Lowing Light & Grip has bought Deano’s Studio in Grand Rapids. (Wyoming is an East Side suburb of Grand Rapids and the state’s 14th largest city...

A wall of IPA Polaroids depicts videos’ pioneering era

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 8, 2017

Scott Jacobs, the ebullient former 18-year owner / president / EP of post house IPA in Bucktown paid me a pleasant, nostalgic visit last week to show me how to most effectively ...

Some 200 nominees vie for 36th Chicago Music Awards

By Mike Morgan Feb 8, 2017

THE 36th CHICAGO MUSIC AWARDS (CMA), with nearly 200 nominees in 30 categories including musicians, songwriters, producers, clubs, comedians, dancers and radio stations, announc...

Kids media Spiffy Pictures wins top innovation award

By Mike Morgan Feb 5, 2017

SPIFFY PICTURES, Deefield-based creators and producers of children’s media, won the Opening Minds Innovation Award that honors individuals and organizations throughout the nat...

PRODUCTION CENTRAL

FCB-Michelob ULTRA spot bowed during the Super Bowl

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 5, 2017

A 30-SECOND SPOT, "Our Bar" from FCB and produced by Radical Media for Michelob ULTRA — the fastest growing beer brand in the U.S. — bowed on Sunday’s Super Bowl.The spot ...

Burnett unleashes Chuck Norris on United Healthcare

By Colin Costello Feb 3, 2017

If you count all of the existing medical codes, there are more than 76,000 ways to enter the Healthcare system. United Healthcare’s humorous, Cannes Award-winning campaign, �...

PRODUCTION CENTRAL

FastDraw, now at Cinespace, animating big sports pieces

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 2, 2017

321 Fast Draw studio is currently working on unique animations for two high profile sporting events: A 2.5-minute segment for Fox TV’s Super Bowl’s Pre-Game Show this Sunday...

Porsche/C-K spot centers on baseball star C.J. Wilson

By Mike Morgan Feb 2, 2017

Utopic editor Kat Pryor recently cut the short film “Parallels” for Cramer-Krasselt/Porsche Motor Sports. It features Major League pitcher C. J. Wilson (L.A.Angels, Texas Ra...

SCC’s new MAKE274 studio is dedicated to social media

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 30, 2017

Schafer Condon Carter's (SCC) officially launched its “ala carte content creation studio,” MAKE247, offering video, animation, motion graphics and photography to brands that...

DGA “overwhelmingly” ratified its new AMPTP contract

By Mike Morgan Jan 29, 2017

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 ga...