I have added 59 pictures of Chace at the DIRECTV’s 4th Annual Celebrity Beach Bowl yesterday, February 6th, 2010 in Miami Beach, Florida and I added a new still from Chace’s movie Twelve!

PARK CITY, UTAH—On the evening of Friday, Jan. 29, Curtis Jackson—better known as the rapper 50 Cent—was milling about the red carpet before the premiere of Twelve, director Joel Schumacher’s adaptation of the 2002 novel of the same name, which wunderkind New York author Nick McDonell penned when he was 17.

It was Mr. Jackson’s third time at Sundance, but his first starring in a closing night film.

“Speedy turnaround, right?” he said.

In Twelve, which sold to Hanover House last week for $2 million, Mr. Jackson portrays a Harlem dealer named Lionel, who supplies a 17-year-old high school dropout—played, quite appropriately, by Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford—with drugs to sell to all of his privileged former classmates on the Upper East Side. In one scene, Lionel gets killed while a young girl exchanges her virginity for a new super drug.

“I don’t mind dying in films,” said Mr. Jackson, amid an explosion of flashbulbs, “’cause you get up after they say, ‘Cut!’”

Unlike Mr. Jackson, Mr. Schumacher, who is 70, said he had never been to Sundance before, and he was proclaiming over and over that he was “the world’s oldest student filmmaker.” His hair was streaked with gray to the chin, and he was dressed in a denim shirt under a double-breasted black wool blazer, and a hemp necklace a shade lighter than his tan.

Mr. Schumacher, who grew up in Long Island, said he was drawn to the material of Twelve, which has its violent climax inside an Upper East Side palace crammed with 400 Marc Jacobs-clad teens, as soon as he read the galleys back in 2002.

“It smacked of the truth,” he said. “It’s a story where the characters are concerned more with celebrity than accomplishments. It’s really a portrait of bad parenting. It’s the same story in every high school, in every town.” (The film ends with a quote from Camus’s The Plague: “After all…there is more to celebrate in the human being than to denigrate.”)

Twelve is ranked dubiously in a critics’ poll on IndieWire. But at Friday’s premiere, John Cooper, the new programming director of Sundance, introduced the film by proclaiming that its cast was perhaps “the most beautiful in the history of the festival.”
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Twelve This teenage drug thriller, compared to Less Than Zero, was this year’s train wreck. (Last year it was The Informers and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.) Directed by Joel Schumacher, it prompted howls of unintended laughter at the press screening … so hey, why not pay $2 million for theatrical rights? That’s what Hannover House did, before it had even played to a festival audience presumably banking on the teen-friendly cast, which includes Chace Crawford, Emma Stone, 50 Cent and Kiefer Sutherland. Hannover says they’ll do a major theatrical roll-out sometime this year.
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I have added photos from the “Twelve” premiere and portraits session at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival!

Joel Shumacher, the man who famously put nipples on the Dark Knight’s costume in “Batman Forever,” isn’t known as a lion of the independent cinema. Still the director of “The Client” and “A Time to Kill” insists that he’s always had a penchant for mixing in low-budget personal projects like “Tigerland” with more mainstream fare.

“Twelve,” the story of a high-school dropout (“Gossip Girl”s’ Chace Crawford) who peddles designer drugs to spoiled Upper East Side teens is very much a passion project. Based on a novel by Nick McDonell, penned when he was just 17, it also involves a brutal murder, a false arrest and a lot of strung-out kids.

The movie, which stars newcomers like Crawford and more established actors like Kiefer Sutherland and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, has been tapped to be the closing night film at this year’s festival.

Schumacher, a Park City newbie, talked with TheWrap about branching into independent cinema at an age when many of his contemporaries are thinking about retirement.

How did you become interested in “Twelve”?
I was in the Taorimina Film Festival getting ready to premiere “Phone Booth,” when my agent at CAA sent me the galleys to Nick’s book. I tried to get the rights, but someone had already bought them and they didn’t want me for the project. So it came out, was a huge sensation and bestseller and time passes.

Nobody, though was able to get it made until [producer] Charlie Corwin got his hands on it and offered me the job. Can’t say it came back to me, because I never had it to begin with, but I always wanted it. Through various incarnations it strayed very, very far from the book. We threw that all out and just pasted Nick’s novel back in.

Is this your first time at Sundance?
Yes, I’ve never been here before. I’m the oldest living student filmmaker. I’ve made some low-budget films before like “Tigerland” and “Phone Booth,” but they were always backed by studios. I started off as a $200 a week costume designer and worked my way up into directing. So I really came through the studio system.

It’s really a thrill for me to be at Sundance at this point in my career. It feels like I’m expanding and not shrinking. I’m not just sitting around Hollywood trying to make a buck.

Has the independent filmmaking been a big adjustment?
There’s always been a misconception about my career, because I’ve been fortunate enough to have some really successful films. I think when “Car Wash” and “St. Elmo’s Fire” hit the zeitgeist there was this tendency to think of them as huge Hollywood films. That’s not true. I’m not a maverick independent director, but we made those movies on the outer edges of the system. The studios didn’t know what we were doing.

People see the [John] Grisham movies and the Batman movies and they think I only do blockbusters, but I made “Phone Booth” in 12 days with an unknown Irish actor — Colin Farrell — so I had pretty good preparation for doing a movie like “Twelve” when we only had 23 days to shoot the whole thing.
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And check out this clip from the movie!

Slipped into their announcement of the Coen’s newest feature film release date, Paramount took “Footloose” off their release schedule, Variety reported. In light of Kenny Ortega and Zac Efron both leaving the project, this announcement seemed a bit inevitable.

While we mourn this loss of a chance to see Chace Crawford (he signed on to the movie after Zac bowed out) shaking his booty in true Kevin Bacon style, we would like to propose some other potential musical films for Paramount’s consideration (and for Chace to also star in, of course!). Check out our pitches after the jump!

FLASHDANCE
Same generation, different dance movie. Sure it’s not a musical per se, but the story of a woman down on her luck and struggling to make a living would be especially potent in today’s harsh economic climate. And wouldn’t it be great to give Jenna Dewan a chance to dance on screen again in Jennifer Beals’ classic role?

WICKED
Why hasn’t this been made into a movie already? The Broadway smash hit based on Gregory Maguire’s best selling novel about the life of the Wicked Witch of the West is one of the best modern musicals and stories. Tim Burton at least took notice when he announced his upcoming film about Maleficent, so maybe Hollywood should take notice and adapt this amazing musical.

A “GLEE” MOVIE
Sure it’s only been out for a season, but “Glee” proved its chops by being awarded a Golden Globe for Best Television Series — Comedy or Musical (it’s both!) has proved it’s got the stuff. We’re sure the creators could easily whip up a movie story line, and it might help move the show to an even bigger following beyond just Gleeks.

SOMETHING BRAND-SPANKIN’ NEW
Instead of this incessant run of remakes, why doesn’t Paramount — or any studio, for that matter — try their hand at making a new musical to become a classic? It’s a new decade and a new chance to make history, so why not pick up some budding Broadway and Hollywood talent, throw Chace, Lea Michele, Hugh Jackman and Neil Patrick Harris in the mix, and make some box office gold.

What musicals would you like to see be made in a movie? Would you want Chace Crawford to star?
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Meanwhile, some bad news for Chace Crawford fans: Paramount has removed the remake of ‘Footloose’ from its release schedule.

Originally slated to open on June 18th, the film has been a troubled production since director Kenny Ortega dropped out over creative differences. No word yet on whether the production has been completely canceled or is just on hold until a new director can be found.

It was previously announced that Crawford, who can currently be seen on the CW hit ‘Gossip Girl,’ would reprise the role of Ren McCormack, a role that Kevin Bacon originated in the 1984 classic.

What “creative differences” the director of ‘High School Musical’ would have regarding a remake of ‘Footloose’ is beyond us.
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Just found the first movie still from Chace’s upcoming movie Twelve! The movie is premiering next month at the Sundance Film Festival.

Here’s a interview from the 2009 MTV VMA’s, interviewed by Maria Menounos!

Actor Chace Crawford is so determined to fill Kevin Bacon’s dancing shoes in the upcoming remake of Footloose, he’s already started training.
The Gossip Girl star has been handed the iconic role of Ren McCormack in a new version of the 1984 movie classic, and begins shooting next year.
And Crawford is so eager to prove himself as a dancer he’s enlisted a teacher to show him the right moves.
He tells Glamour magazine, “We don’t start shooting until March, but I started getting into some training. I’m going to need the whole nine months to really get to where I need to be.
“I have some movement and I’m really happy to learn a lot of new stuff, but I’m counting on the magical editing to make me look really good! But they put me through a screen test, which was pretty rigorous, so I must have the foundation for it.”

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