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6 Reasons Why This ’90s Joel Schumacher Batman Movie is Actually the Most Underrated Film in the Franchise
Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever is the most underrated entry in the franchise thanks to excellent production design and Val ...
Batman Forever: It’s Time to Release the Schumacher Cut
A missing chapter of the Dark Knight’s cinematic history needs to be restored, and Joel Schumacher's Batman legacy brightened ...
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Joel Schumacher, director of Batman films, dies at 80
Joel Schumacher, costume designer-turned-director of films including “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “The Lost Boys” and “Falling Down,” as well as “Batman” films, died in New York City on ...
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Joel Schumacher, Director of ‘St. Elmo’s Fire,’ Is Dead at 80
By Dave Itzkoff Joel Schumacher, the director whose visually inventive and sometimes subversive movies — including the coming-of-age drama “St. Elmo’s Fire,” the vampire action-comedy ...
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Emilio Estevez blasts ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ director Joel Schumacher as a ‘nightmare’ and ‘bully’: He ‘was wildly insecure’
Emilio Estevez has opened up about the “nightmare” experience he had working with director Joel Schumacher on the beloved 1980s movie “St. Elmo’s Fire.” The “Mighty Ducks” star ...
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The Lost Boys: Joel Schumacher On Making The Coolest Vampire Movie Of All Time
“Warner Bros. took a big chance with this movie, and with me, because they really didn’t know what the heck I was doing,” chuckles a now 80-year-old Joel Schumacher, by his fireplace at home ...
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Jeremy Garelick on Joel Schumacher: “His Movies Were All His Home Videos”
Joel Schumacher— the prolific director behind St. Elmo's Fire, Flatliners and two Batman films— passed away in New York City after a battle with cancer. He was 80.