Is Joel “Batman & Robin” Schumacher‘s big comeback movie, “Twelve” — based on the novel Nick McDonell wrote when he was 17 — bound for disaster? Post critic Kyle Smith reports from Sundance that audiences were giggling at the film’s woefully earnest depiction of rich-kid depravity. The Upper East Side-set picture about drug-dealing high schoolers, starring a suddenly grown-up Emma Roberts and “Gossip Girl” star Chace Crawford, was acquired by minor distributor Hannover House for a piddling $2 million, suggesting it will have a brief stay in theaters.
Chace Crawford’s preppie movie may be bound for disaster
