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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Most who worked with director Joel Schumacher walked away feeling like they’d made a friend. He was generous in spirit, open and honest about his own success and flaws and disappointments.

“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, an eclectic director whose career ranged from a pair of divisive Batman movies to “St. Elmo’s Fire,” died Monday after a year-long battle with cancer, a representative for ...

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 ...