“Imagine [Entertainment] has always played in that zone where there is that chance, high probability of chance, that it [a movie] will be successful in a movie theater,” Grazer explained. “It’s great ...

"[We] just never knew when the fire was going to get away from us," recalls the director, who says the cast and crew bonded over working with live fire on the 1991 film and reveals Robert De Niro's ...

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Tom Reimann is a writer and comedian and somehow Senior Editor of Features at Collider. He has written for Cracked.com, Mad Magazine, BunnyEars.com, and Some More News, and is the co-founder of the ...

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 ...

“Backdraft would be really good,” Howard told Entertainment Weekly. “Backdraft would be fun. You could get the scope and the intensity that we had to do all in-camera — now we could do it efficiently ...

Twenty years ago Ron Howard made Backdraft, a visually stunning triumph of special effects that is remembered far more for its arresting firey set-pieces than its converging humanist plot-lines. But ...

Fifteen years ago, Ron Howard was known primarily as a comedy director (and one of my favorite sitcom characters, Richie Cunningham.) His reputation was good, but a bit lightweight. In 1991 he ...