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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of Wednesday night’s Season 8 premiere of Chicago Fire. Last night’s Season 8 premiere of NBC’s Chicago Fire sadly answered a lingering question following the cliffhanger ending of season 7. A huge factory fire left the fates of the Chicago Fire crew unknown, and in last…

EXCLUSIVE: Black Panther and Creed II star Michael B. Jordan will play the deadly assassin Columbus in The Silver Bear, a potential franchise launch for Lionsgate based on the book series by Wanted and 3:10 to Yuma screenwriter Derek Haas. Frank Baldwin (The Godmother) has written the script that tells the formative…

There is a second showrunner change on CBS' high-profile new fall drama series FBI, from Law & Order and Chicago boss Dick Wolf, Universal TV and CBS TV Studios. Greg Plageman, who joined the series as showrunner in late July, replacing Craig Turk, is stepping down. He is being replaced by two of Wolf’s top…

EXCLUSIVE: Nickel City Pictures has optioned rights to the critically acclaimed Silver Bear book series, which explores the visceral and psychological world behind a contract killer. The series was authored by accomplished screenwriter Derek Haas (3:10 to Yuma, Chicago Fire/Chicago PD). The story follows Columbus, the…

Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, whose Chicago Fire pilot script helped launch a big drama franchise for NBC, have closed a new multi-year show deal with Universal Television, the studio behind the Chicago series, which are spearheaded by Dick Wolf. Under the deal, Brandt and Haas will continue to executive produce Chica…