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Joel Schumacher on His Career, His Critics, and Why It’s OK to Laugh During Trespass

There’s no stopping Joel Schumacher , the 72-year-old filmmaker who returns to screens this week with the thriller Trespass . Though to invoke his name in some circles is to invite wishes he would stop; Schumacher has never been an especially popular director among the critical elite, and his latest film, a wild home-invasion potboiler co-starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman , won’t necessarily change things. But you know what? That’s a good thing — at least for Schumacher.

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VIDEO: iPhone 4S’s Siri Responds to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Prompts

Ok gadget hounds, so this Siri thing is pretty neat. AND she/it has a built-in sense for movie geekery, so if you happen to ask her, say, what the meaning of life is. (Answer: 42, duh.) Or slyly refer to the shenanigans of that uber-intelligent, all-knowing other futuristic supercomputer, HAL 9000. Watch video of Siri in action (at the 5:15 mark) after the jump and stick around for more Buzz Break.

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VIDEO: iPhone 4S’s Siri Responds to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Prompts

Kristen Stewart’s Snow White and the Huntsman Sounds Increasingly Badass

“Basically, I’m fighting evil — I’m fighting the most evil motherf–kers — and it’s fine that they’re being killed,” Kristen Stewart told Box Office Magazine of her currently-filming Snow White and the Huntsman . “It’s anguish. It’s literally f–king anguish. She takes absolutely no pleasure in ever hurting anything. I’m exhausted right now and I was thinking, ‘The fight stuff is coming up, maybe that won’t be so bad.’ And then I realized that they’re probably going to be my most emotional scenes because I’m killing people and I’m Snow White. It’s a really f–king cool way to approach a movie where so many people die.” Score another badass point in favor of SWATH . Sorry, other Snow White movie . [ Box Office Magazine ]

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So Much for Oscar; Soderbergh’s Liberace Goes to HBO

Earlier this year producer Jerry Weintraub predicted Oscar gold for one of his upcoming pet projects, the Steven Soderbergh -helmed Liberace biopic. “I’ve got a great script, it’s a great story, and they’re great characters,” he enthused to Movieline. “That’s what I make movies about. It’s going to win an Academy Award… for Michael Douglas .” Well, not so fast.

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VIDEO: The Thing as Retold Through Song by a Dog Channeling Frank Sinatra

The Joel Edgerton -Mary Elizabeth Winstead prequel The Thing hits theaters this Friday, so if you need a refresher on the events of the John Carpenter 1982 original — which takes place three days after the new film — what better way to relive it than through the Cliff’s Notes version, as sung in the style of Frank Sinatra from the point of view of the dog? Just go with it. Watch Jon and Al’s John Carpenter’s The Thing: The Musical , then stick around for more Buzz Break.

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VIDEO: The Thing as Retold Through Song by a Dog Channeling Frank Sinatra

Titanic 3-D Sneak Preview: James Cameron Makes the Case for His Blockbuster Revival

It’s auteur 3-D work-in-progress week in New York! Less than a day after Martin Scorsese gave a hometown crowd an early glimpse at his upcoming Hugo , James Cameron dropped by Times Square to show off 17 minutes from his ongoing 3-D conversion of Titanic .

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Titanic 3-D Sneak Preview: James Cameron Makes the Case for His Blockbuster Revival

Submit a 10-Word Review, Win a Tree of Life Blu-ray Combo Pack!

It’s giveaway time again! This time, Movieline is giving away two Tree of Life combo packs (Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy included) in honor of tomorrow’s home release of the Terrence Malick drama. And what better way to toast the thought-provoking feature starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn than with a 10-word review contest. So grab your guest critic pens and click through for more details — except for you, Sean Penn .

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Joel Schumacher Tells Movieline About the Time He Wrote The Wiz

This week brings Trespass , the latest film from Joel Schumacher. The occasion prompted the opportunity for Movieline to have a candid, wide-ranging chat with the veteran filmmaker about his career, his critics and his humble origins as a costume designer in the 1970s. And despite his glossy new thriller starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman, one subject demanded even more attention: The Wiz , the Motown musical directed by Sidney Lumet and written, in his brief, scrappy scribe-for-hire days, by Schumacher.

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Joel Schumacher Tells Movieline About the Time He Wrote The Wiz

Drive Faces Dumbest Lawsuit Ever, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: A Pixar alum gets the closest of close reads… Tortured Oscar logic… Awesomely ridiculous new reality stars… The $24 million Korean humanist marathoner WWII film you have (or haven’t) been waiting for… and more.

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Twit Wit: The 5 Best Tweets About Real Steel and Ides of March

You might’ve realized it by now, but Real Steel is a ridiculous premise for a movie. So ridiculous it worked , in fact. Twitter blew up this weekend with comments about Hugh Jackman’s and the sweet science of robo-jousting, and Ryan Gosling’s effectiveness in The Ides of March . We tally the best five tweets after the jump.

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