EURO MEANS BUSINESS. Just moved in are the Chicago brethren of Rubin Postaer Associates (RPA): GCDs Bill Mericle and Paul Janas, copywriter Derrick Halpern, print production dir...
J. Walter Thompson, the world's largest ad agency, has reinvented itself as "JWT," calling the relaunch a "billion dollar startup," with a celebration held Feb. 28 at all JWT's ...
Everyone knows the unparalleled on-court antics of the Harlem Globetrotters, but few today are aware of the team's pivotal role in shattering basketball's color barrier and tran...
Early the other morning Emoto Music's executive producer Paul Schultz got a harried call from Cramer/Krasselt clients. They needed to tweak a sound track Emoto had produced. Cou...
Edward T. McDougal is embarking on the biggest production of his twenty-year career. His new Civil War drama "Dog Jack," featuring battle reenactments with hundreds of extras, s...
Backyard Productions is never one to stand still, always finding a new way to serve emerging trends?like its newly-formed Seed, a content company led by former DDB award-winning...
Director Parris Reaves' fourth film, ghost story "The Evil One," has been released on DVD nationwide. "We're everywhere?even in Target," Reaves said. Shot in summer 2003 on ...
An 18-month effort by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to organize casting directors under Los Angeles Local 399 and New York Local 817 seems be on the brink of succes...
While his "Ray" colleagues wait to see if the movie wins Best Picture and Jamie Foxx is acclaimed best actor, Harry J. Lennix is hanging out on the North Shore. The native C...
While local spot production may be at the bottom of the scale, documentary production for cable can be viewed as a growth industry with the explosion of cable outlets and its vo...
GRANT/JACOBY CLOSES. Mid-size, independent Grant/Jacoby has ridden into the sunset after 62 years on Michigan Ave. The agency employed 25. Inability to lasso new business was it...
NATHYN MASTERS' debut feature, the apocalyptic thriller "The Fourth Beast" about a former army ranger taking on the forces of the Antichrist, was released on DVD Feb. 15 by York...
Ben Berkowitz and Ben Redgrave are fresh from a Sundance Film Festival that saw them make strides on their diverse feature projects. At Sundance they attended the launch par...
The contentious National Hockey League lockout has put a lock on possible sales of a nostalgic doc to broadcast outlets, but the 80-minute "Hockey's Greatest Era" available on D...
It's been a long, rocky trek for writer/director Bob Shallcross and producer David James from a lone test in a Grand Rapids' movie house to major market theatres for their prize...
A New York institution that has long brought together the advertising and indie worlds will make its Chicago debut Aprill 7 when Chicago spot producer Elise Kleinman puts on the...
Brothers Joe and Harry Gantz, of HBO's "Taxicab Confessions" will shoot a reality show pilot here in mid-March they aim will lead to a Showtime series starting this spring. "...
Roger Ebert and six other Chicago TV veterans will be inducted into the Silver Circle of the Chicago/Midwest cheaper of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Eb...
took the spotlight MasterCard Superbowl spot for McCann-Erickson/New York that will continue to air, it was that highly acclaimed. Calabash Productions animated nine of 10 i...
NEW LOBBYING FIRM FOR IPA. The Illinois Production Alliance has hired The Illinois Governmental Consulting Group to convince the Illinois legislature to extend the wage tax cre...
