Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever is the most underrated entry in the franchise thanks to excellent production design and Val ...

St. Elmo's Fire shaped my ideas of life and friendship after college, but although those ideas turned out to be wrong, I ...

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 ...

Matt Damon auditioned to play Robin in 'Batman Forever,' in full knowledge that any actor reading for the role was just a way ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Warner Bros. has shut down a Batman Forever screening of The Schumacher Cut, five days before the scheduled event.

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 ...