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

Posted on October 13, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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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REVIEW: The Thing Spells Out Every Little Thing Yet Tells Us Nothing

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As we all know by now, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s The Thing is not a remake of John Carpenter’s 1982 The Thing , which in turn wasn’t really a remake of Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby’s 1951 The Thing from Another World . So now we have two Things that are only tangentially related to the first Thing , although the thing about the third Thing is that it explains how the Thing of the second Thing demolished the Norwegian explorers who were dead by the time that Thing was even a thing. The Thing of the third Thing basically does the same thing we saw it do in the second Thing , so the third Thing probably isn’t for you if the second Thing wasn’t your thing.

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Tree of Life 10-Word Review Contest: We Have Our Winners!

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Let’s hear it for all the Movieline readers who turned out to critique Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life as part of our 10-word review contest! We’ve received some clever, concise and inspired submissions about the thought-provoking (and stoner-approved !) feature starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn — which is out on DVD and Blu-ray this week! Alas, we could only pick two winners. Click through to see whose witty write-ups earned them a Tree of Life combo pack.

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Austin Powers’ Random Task Suspected in Prison Death

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The real-life case of Dr. Evil’s Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery henchman Random Task continues to get more and more disturbing in ways that even the most twisted Bond villains couldn’t match. Mixed martial artist-turned-actor Joseph Son, currently serving a life sentence for a 1990 gang rape, is now suspected of killing his cellmate in California’s Wasco State Prison. An autopsy and investigation is underway. [ THR ]

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Hayden Panettiere on Fireflies in the Garden, Battling Typecasting, and the Amanda Knox Aftermath

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Opening this weekend in limited release, Fireflies in the Garden isn’t exactly Hayden Panettiere’s “new” film. It’s more like her embattled, shelved, revisited and re-revisited film — shot in 2007, a festival curio in early 2008 and thought lost to the indie-film ages until recently, when plans were finally made for its theatrical distribution. At least she’s in pretty phenomenal company, starring alongside Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe and playing a young Emily Watson in the tale of a family grappling with generations of guilt, misunderstanding, tragedy and maybe — just maybe — a future.

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Independent Theaters Join Tower Heist Boycott

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Following the example set last week by Cinemark, a number of independent theater chains and movie theaters have pledged not to screen Universal’s Tower Heist in protest over the studio’s plans to drastically shorten the release window. Lyndon Golin, chief executive of Regency Theaters (which is joined by the Emagine and Galaxy chains) explained: “We certainly support Cinemark… If their position is they won’t run it, then we won’t run it either. Movies shown in the home on such a short window is a dagger to our business.” [ LA Times ]

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Make Your Own Yarn Ryan Gosling: Some Heroes Are Crocheted

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Despite that one disgruntled moviegoer’s complaints , there are plenty of diehard members of the cult of Drive , which incidentally has racked up a cool $30 million to date. Not too shabby, Film District. Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that Ryan Gosling ‘s Driver character has now been commemorated in the cutest, cuddliest way imaginable: as a crocheted amigurumi doll, complete with his signature toothpick and a yarn hammer. And you thought YOU were obsessed with Drive . Hit the jump for today’s Buzz Break…

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Christopher Columbus Face-Off: Who Has Had the Greater Impact on Film?

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It’s the second Monday in October and you know what that means — it’s Columbus Day, the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 1492 arrival in the Americas. But let’s not forget, approximately 500 years after the Italian explorer set foot in the New World, a young filmmaker also named Christopher Columbus pioneered a new world of family comedy with hits like The Goonies , Home Alone , Mrs. Doubtfire and the Harry Potter franchise. In honor of today’s holiday, Movieline wonders which Christopher Columbus had the bigger impact on cinema — the navigator who brought attention to the mass of land that would eventually encompass the U.S. center of filmmaking and provide setting for millions of films — or the filmmaker who established some of our most nostalgic family films ( Adventures in Babysitting included) as well as three Harry Potter movies. Let’s investigate below!

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

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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

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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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