THE FIRST SEASON of “Chop Chop TV Show,” a comedy sitcom with a realty show feel, created and produced by Meiling Jin of Studio Meiling Productions in the South Loop, is now...
AICP’S INAUGURAL DIVERSITY SHOWCASE, the Commercial Directors Diversity Program (CDDP) was held Wednesday night, Jan. 11 at LA’s Directors Guild of America Theatre.
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New chief executive of Leo Burnett North America is Andrew Swinand, a former media agency executive and Starcom MediaVest Group, who was hired to help strengthen the agency afte...
If 2016 was considered a great year for the Chicago media and entertainment business, 2017 is starting to shape up as even greater. It could even be the year when the Chicago m...
Satiric news digital publisher Onion, Inc. has formed a joint partnership with award-winning production company, Serious Business, to produce three feature films over the next t...
When composer / producer / engineer Joe Hurt and his partner, singer/songwriter Grant DeNapoli, decided to open their Barrelhouse Music recording studio last year, rather than g...
Introducing a new column series penned by some of Chicago advertising’s most innovative thinkers, starting with Bob Dion, partner, CCO of Davis Harrison and Dion, giving “...
The late James Pope would not have wanted a memorial service, says his long-time friend, producer / production manager Michelle Breger. Instead, a celebration of Pope’s life w...
DePaul University, in the fourth year of its 10-year studio rental lease at Cinespace, added a second sound stage in the program the school informally calls “DePaul-to-TV pipe...
In a rare opportunity for the Chicago film community, “The Reel Strategy Workshop,” offering an intensive training seminar on how to successfully brand, fund and distribute ...
THE CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY, which changed its name from the Northwest Film Society, starts a new season of 15 vintage films Wednesday, Jan. 11, with the 1947 thriller “Nightmare...