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If there's one thing you can say about Batman & Robin, it's that Joel Schumacher's infamous superhero film isn't as bad as ...
A missing chapter of the Dark Knight’s cinematic history needs to be restored, and Joel Schumacher's Batman legacy brightened ...
Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever is the most underrated entry in the franchise thanks to excellent production design and Val ...
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 ...
Warner Bros. has shut down a Batman Forever screening of The Schumacher Cut, five days before the scheduled event.
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Joel Schumacher died on June 22, 2020. We are revisiting this interview, which was originally published in August of 2019, in commemoration of his life. Speed couldn’t kill Joel Schumacher ...
Joel Schumacher, a journeyman director who shepherded a new generation of young stars to the big screen in “St. Elmo’s Fire” and steered the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory ...