Mighty Brand Infomercials Take a Week-Long Respite to Recognize the Passing of Pitchman Billy Mays This morning, the companies responsible for the Mighty(TM) brand product line, Mighty Putty and Mighty Mendit, announced that television advertisements featuring Billy Mays will not run for a period... more
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The LA Film School's Cintiq Lab Facilitates Creative Expression and Equips Computer Animation Students with "Real World" Skills When visitors walk into the brand new Wacom® Cintiq® lab at the Los Angeles Film School, they might think they have stumbled onto H.G. Wells' time machine. In the middle of the room is a stairway to an elevated... more
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| Ad Agencies Poised to Reap Massive Benefits from New NCC and Donovan Data Systems Partnership | more > |
| DDB Worldwide Agencies Win Agency of the Year and Film Grand Prix at 2009 International Advertising Festival in Cannes | more > |
| Digital Domain Collaborates with Michael Bay on 'Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen' Movie Tie-Ins | more > |
| Future Media Concepts Presents the 5th Annual NY Post Production Conference | more > |
| Garfinkel Joins Postworks | more > |
| Outside's Jeff Ferruzzo Edits Award-Winning Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man" Campaign Which Garners Cannes Bronze Lion Award | more > |
| The Force is With These Videos: Atom.com and Lucasfilm Ltd. Announce Finalists for 2009 'Star Wars(TM) Fan Movie Challenge' | more > |
| Tucson Film & Music Festival Names Allison Anders and Danny Vinik to Creative Advisory Board | more > |
| RK Media Group Builds New Los Angeles Based Facility Around the Vectorbox Playout Solutions | more > |
| Technology Giants Cisco And LG Morph Product Integration in Transformers With $10 Million of Exposure | more > |
Chicago's Own Jordan A Slam Dunk at Vapor Music
Chicago has been blessed with creative talents as Vapor Music learned first hand by recruiting top composer Benn Jordan to join their team. Not to be confused with Michael Jordan or Ben Gordon, Jordan is an accomplished... more
charlieuniformtango Announces Dallas Headquarters Moving to One Arts Plaza
charlieuniformtango President/Executive Producer Lola Lott announced the company will be moving its Dallas location to One Arts Plaza this fall. Located in the emerging Arts District of downtown Dallas at 1722 Routh Street... more
Altar Film Produces And Directs Special Olympics Documentary “Best I Can”
Witness the celebratory journey documented in the film, Best I Can, directed by Michael LaBellarte and produced by ALTAR Film. Documenting the rich spirit of the Special Olympics, Best I Can covers the influence and evolution of the... more
Illinios Film Office Announces Public Enemies Generates $46.7 Million In Revenue
The latest blockbuster film to be shot in Illinois, Public Enemies, has broken all records in terms of dollars spent in the state to this point. Chicago screening, The Illinois Film Office states that the movie brought in $46.7 million in... more
Action Movie Produced By Two Home-School Families Wins Awards
Burns Family Studios won the “2009 Indie Best of Show Award” award at the Indie Film Festival (www.theindiefest.com) for its recent release, “Pendragon: Sword of His Father,” an epic, inspirational movie. In... more
THE HIDDEN TRUTH: What, Me Worry?
Many entrepreneurs and business owners take on worry like its part of the job description. They worry about cash flow, making payroll, re-negotiating the lease, motivating their people. They worry about just about everything, and if... more
Smoke & Mirrors NY Puts Dinosaurs On Ice
Smoke & Mirrors New York (SMNY) teamed with Carmichael Lynch Minneapolis this past winter to launch a beautifully quirky spot for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science that showcases the New York studio’s ability to... more
Martin Agency Launches New Spots For Geico
GEICO talks about the outstanding claim service that contributes to the insurer’s 97% customer satisfaction rating. GEICO’s talking about claim service in a new and different way for the... more
Backyard’s Done Rase Takes Bargain Hunting Literally For Food Lion
Director Done Rase of Venice, CA-based Backyard (www.backyard.com) helps grocery shoppers get in touch with their hunter-gatherer side in :30s “Specials” and “Carts” for Food Lion... more
Creative Soup: 07.01.09
Capital investment in the form of government “bail outs” has become the latest sheik in today’s economic reality so much so that nearly every sector has their hand out for some tax payer money to help boost jobs and the lagging... more
Linda BuchnerLeading Off: 07.01.09
The Illinois Film Office reported that the film industry generated $141 million for the Illinois economy and created 5,392 jobs for Illinois workers, excluding extras last year and was off to a good start this year with the recent... more
Columbia Grad Shoots Short “Marlin”
LCA Gaiden Productions film director Matt Dworzanczyk got his first taste as an independent filmmaker when he got behind the lens for his new film “Marlin” which was shot in and around the Chicago market. In this bizarre, dark fairy... more
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