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Sweet Batman on a Unicorn, how amazingly horrific would the third Schumacher Batman film have been? After the disaster that was Batman & Robin, Joel Schumacher wanted to hire Nic Cage to play the Scarecrow and bring back Jack Nicholson as the Joker, alongside Harley Quinn. More »
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Joel Schumacher didn't actually make the worst Batman movie of all time - that honor belongs to Alyas Batman En Robin, the 1993 Bat-movie made in the Philippines. Here, Batman takes a plucky reporter inside the Bat-garage and offers Bat-drinks. More »
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It was 20 years ago this week that Tim Burton's Batman was released, changing the face of summer blockbusters, superhero movies and even breakfast cereal forever (Okay, maybe not that last one). Perhaps it's time to relive some Batmania...? More »
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As the cliche (doesn't) go: Where there's the box office smoke, there's going to be sequel fire, and Batman's box office breaking lead to three follow-ups that pretty much define that whole The Good, The Bad and The Ugly idea. More »
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The Comics More »
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In the summer of 1989, you couldn't get away from Batman even if you tried. Kevin Smith put it best: More »
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Even before Tim Burton took the director's chair of Batman in 1986, the movie seemed troubled, if not just outright unlikely to ever happen. A Batman movie had been in development since 1980, following the success of Richard Donner's Superman The Movie and Superman II, with various writers - including comic writer Steve Englehart - and directors (amongst them, Ghostbusters' Ivan Reitman) attached at different times. It took Burton's arrival, following the success of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure as well as Frank Miller's gamechanging The Dark Knight Returns comic series, to galvanize a coherent direction for the movie, but even then, it would take another two years - and Burton's Beetlejuice becoming a hit - to get the movie greenlit by Warner Bros. More »
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The yawn-inducing still photo seen here was released yesterday as the first image from Joel Schumacher's new film Town Creek, about a brother who seeks revenge on a family who has been hiding the result of some of the Third Reich's experiments with the occult: a vampire. Not just any vampire, mind you, but a Nazi vampire. Since this is a vampire flick, we can only hope it will feature Shumacher's signature bat-nipples from Batman and Robin. But why can't Shumacher make a movie about real Nazi mad science, which was way creepier than vampires? More »
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