The city’s hopes for a glitzy benefit premiere of Backdraft, Universal Pictures’ $40 million summer picture about Chicago fire fighters, appear to be going up in flames. With $20 million of its ...

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Kurt Russell's Stephen yells orders during a fire in Backdraft - Universal Pictures In Ron Howard's "Backdraft," Chicago Fire Department firefighters (and siblings) Stephen (Kurt Russell) and Brian ...

During a hellish chemical plant fire, Stephen (Kurt Russell) and Brian (William Baldwin) face the ultimate betrayal when they ...

Donald S. Rimgale was a Chicago firefighter and fire investigator who inspired the character played by Robert De Niro in “Backdraft,” the 1991 movie set and filmed in Chicago. “He was really just ...

Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Glazer dropped word of the potential new movie during a wide-ranging interview, but it’s still at an early stage. You can imagine, then, that he’s high on studios and ...

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Reid Goldberg is a features writer for Collider. Having grown up in the Midwest, he attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. While he's begrudingly accepted that a FIlm Studies degree wasn't ...

A neighbor’s video catches a backdraft engulfing Chicago firefighters at 4851 S. Paulina St. It was one of those small fires that firefighters face every day. But even the smallest blaze can turn on ...