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Superman Returns is a 2006 superhero film directed by Bryan Singer. It is the fifth and final installment in the original Superman motion picture series. The film serves as an alternate sequel to Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980), ignoring the events of Superman III (1983) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987).
The film stars Brandon Routh as Superman, as well as Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden, Frank Langella, and Parker Posey, and tells the story of the title character returning to Earth after a five year absence. He finds that his love interest Lois Lane has moved on with her life, and that his archenemy Lex Luthor is plotting a scheme that will destroy the world, starting with the United States.
After a series of unsuccessful projects to resurrect Superman on the screen, Warner Bros. hired Bryan Singer to direct and develop Superman Returns in July 2004. The majority of principal photography took place at Fox Studios Australia, Sydney, while the visual effects sequences were created by Sony Pictures Imageworks; filming ended in November 2005. Preceded by an extensive marketing campaign at the cost of $44.5 million, Superman Returns was released to positive reviews and received many award nominations, but Warner Bros. was disappointed with the $391 million worldwide box office return. A sequel was planned for a summer 2009 release, but the project was later cancelled. The Superman series will be rebooted in 2013 with the film Man of Steel and will be directed by Zack Snyder with Henry Cavill as Superman.
Superman (also known as Superman: The Movie) is a 1978superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Richard Donner directed the film, which stars Christopher Reeve as Superman, as well as Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Glenn Ford, Phyllis Thaxter, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Valerie Perrine and Ned Beatty. The film depicts the origin of Superman, including his infancy as Kal-El of Krypton and his youthful years in the rural town of Smallville. Disguised as reporter Clark Kent, he adopts a mild-mannered attitude in Metropolis and develops a romance with Lois Lane, while battling the villainous Lex Luthor.
The film was conceived in 1973 by Ilya Salkind. Several directors, most notably Guy Hamilton, and screenwriters (Mario Puzo, David and Leslie Newman and Robert Benton) were associated with the project before Donner was hired to direct. Donner brought Tom Mankiewicz to rewrite the script, feeling it was too campy. Mankiewicz was credited as creative consultant. It was decided to film both Superman and Superman II simultaneously.
Actors: Javi Araguz (producer), Javi Araguz (editor), Javi Araguz (actor), Javi Araguz (director), Javi Araguz (writer), Pau Bertomeu (producer), Carles Araguz (actor), Carles Araguz (actor), Isabel Hierro (producer), Laura Tamayo (actress), Tim Garland (composer), Carol Rovira (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Thellie Castro-Palanisamy (miscellaneous crew), Michael Angelo Bernardo (miscellaneous crew), Princess Lou Bernardo (miscellaneous crew), Remegio Capiral (miscellaneous crew), Tammy Bejerano (miscellaneous crew), Marya Ignacio (editor), Charo Santos-Concio (producer), Carmi Raymundo (writer), Malou N. Santos (producer), William Cabahit (miscellaneous crew), Marizel V. Samson (producer), Gerry Arguelles (miscellaneous crew), Carmi Raymundo (producer), Jennifer D. Ching (miscellaneous crew), Mark Catap (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Michael Agrusso (actor), Michael Agrusso (actor), Michael Agrusso (actor), Michael Agrusso (actor), Michael Agrusso (actor), Michael Agrusso (actor), Michael Agrusso (writer), Michael Agrusso (composer), Michael Agrusso (director), Michael Agrusso (editor), Michael Agrusso (producer), Brinna Li (actor), Brinna Li (actor), Brinna Li (actor), Brinna Li (actor),
Genres: Action, Comedy,Actors: Jennifer Zolten Freed (miscellaneous crew), Daniel Villagomez (miscellaneous crew), James Urbaniak (actor), Ted Hope (producer), Rebecca Thornell (miscellaneous crew), Alison Cohen (miscellaneous crew), Donal Logue (actor), Judah Friedlander (actor), Hope Davis (actress), Paul Giamatti (actor), Michael Taylor (miscellaneous crew), Molly Shannon (actress), Josh Hutcherson (actor), Rae Sunshine Lee (actress), James McCaffrey (actor),
Plot: Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey's true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey's cult celebrity stature.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, adopted-daughter, adoption, airplane, airport, american-dream, american-splendor-the-comic-bookActors: Antonia San Juan (actress), Jaime Chávarri (actor), Koldo Zuazua (producer), Enrique Alcides (actor), Marta Salas (editor), Ramón Salazar (director), Ramón Salazar (producer), Ramón Salazar (writer), Mónica Cervera (actress), Miguel De Ángel (actor), Carmen Manzano (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Kirk Alyn (actor), Ralph Byrd (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Buster Crabbe (actor), Jay Silverheels (actor), Tom Steele (actor), Adam West (actor), Dale Evans (actress), Clayton Moore (actor), Dick Purcell (actor), George Reeves (actor), Kane Richmond (actor), Roy Rogers (actor), Burt Ward (actor), Judd Holdren (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Roy Barcroft (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Donald F. Glut (writer), Donald F. Glut (director), Bart Andrews (actor),
Genres: Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Kirk Alyn (actor), Ludwig Stössel (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), John Dehner (actor), Scotty Beckett (actor), Emil Sitka (actor), Gordon Jones (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Jimmy Lydon (actor), Lester Matthews (actor), John Doucette (actor), Jack Rice (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Emil Sitka (actor), Harry Tyler (actor),
Plot: Elwood Martin ('Gordon Jones (I)' (qv)), a brash extrovert with an aversion to work come to live with Walt Wallet ('Don Beddoe' (qv)) and his wife, Phyllis ('Madelon Baker' (qv)). He blunders about their house, and the diner owned by Corky Wallet ('Scotty Beckett' (qv)) and the fix-it shop belonging to Skeezix Wallet ('Jimmy Lydon' (qv)), creating havoc at every stop. Corky and his kid sister, Judy Wallet ('Patti Brady' (qv)) decide the only way to save the Wallet family from bankruptcy and insanity is to persuade the free-loading Elwood to move on. The latter then fakes an injured back.
Keywords: 1950s, adopted-brother, adopted-son, adoptive-father, adoptive-mother, archive-footage, auto-repair-shop, b-movie, bankruptcy, based-on-comicActors: Kirk Alyn (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Robert Barron (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Tommy Bond (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), John Elliott (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Tommy Farrell (actor), Tommy Farrell (actor), William Fawcett (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Ernie Adams (actor),
Plot: Columbia's 43rd serial finds Lex Luthor, secretly the Atom Man, blackmailing the city of Metropolis by threatening to destroy the entire community. Perry White, editor of "The Daily Planet", assigns Lois Lane, Jimmy Olson and Clark Kent/Superman to cover the story. Luthor invents a number of deadly devices to plague the city, including a disintegrating machine which can reduce people to their basic atoms and reassemble them in another place. But Superman manages to thwart each scheme. Since Kryptonite can rob Superman of his powers, Luthor decides to create a synthetic Kryptonite and putters about obtaining the necessary ingredients: plutonium, radium and the undefined 'etc.'(in order to keep viewers from trying this at home). Luthor places the Kryptonite at the launching of a ship, with Superman in attendance. He is exposed to the Kryptonite and passes out. Superman is taken off in an ambulance driven by Luthor's henchmen, and he is now under the control of Luthor. Superman is placed in a device, a lever is pulled, and the Man of Steel vanishes into "The Empty Doom." With eight chapters remaining, the odds are high he will return. Most of chapter 7 is a repeat of the origin story from chapter 1 of Columbia's first "Superman" serial, and this serial also finds a way to work in stock footage from Ken Maynard's 1936 "Avenging Waters," minus ol' Ken and his hoss Tarzan.
Keywords: 1950s, ambulance, archenemy, archive-footage, based-on-comic, character-name-in-title, cliffhanger, damsel-in-distress, dc-comics, dual-roleActors: Fred Aldrich (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Robert Barron (actor), Tommy Bond (actor), Roy Butler (actor), James Carlisle (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), George DeNormand (actor), Frank Ellis (actor),
Plot: Jor-El ('Nelson Leigh' (qv)), a scientist on the planet Krypton rockets his infant son to Earth just before Krypton explodes. The boy is found on Earth by a farmer, Eben Kent ('Ed Cassidy (I)' (qv)) and his wife, Martha ('Virginia Carroll' (qv)) and they name him Clark Kent ('Kirk Alyn' (qv)). When Clark grows up, his foster father asks him to use his amazing super powers only for good. The mild-mannered Clark gets a job on the Daily Planet as a reporter, and soon, as his alter-ego Superman (Kirk Alyn'), and soon tangles with The Spider Lady ('Carol Forman (I)' (qv)), who considers herself Queen of the Underworld. Meanwhile, a fragment from the planet Krypton reaches earth and falls in her possession. It is the only substance that can render Superman helpless.
Keywords: 1940s, adoption, b-movie, based-on-comic, big-city, character-name-in-title, dc-comics, doctor, dual-role, episodicSome of us are reaching for stardust
And some of us are digging for gold
But it won't mean a lot on a mountain top
When the wind reaches out for your soul
Some of us stand in the spotlight
Waiting for a round of applause
But if the people go home and you're left all alone
To face the sadness behind closed doors
I don't want the sun
Don't want you to run
I don't want Superman, don't need Wonderland
Just want you to love me
Now some of us want silver linings
To be the belle of the ball
Going down in a blaze of glory
Now the story means nothing at all
I don't want the sun
Don't want you to run
I don't want Superman, I don't need Wonderland
Just want you to love me
I don't want the stars
Or Venus or Mars
I don't want Superman, don't need Wonderland
Just want you to love me
Just want you to love me
I don't want Superman, don't need Wonderland