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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Schumacher’s flash and style may well have rescued the franchise. (And then, two years later, nearly sank it.) By Jason Bailey When news broke on Monday of the director Joel Schumacher’s death ...

“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 died today at age 80, of cancer. In the motion picture biz, he was lots of things: a writer, a costume designer, and a director. His movies as director — which ranged from 1990s ...

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.

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 ...