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Kate Bosworth is only 22 years old, but she's using an example of a older classic actress, Katharine Hepburn, to help her shape her portrayal of Lois Lane for the new Superman Returns movie.

Bosworth wants Lois Lane to have Hepburn's unique blend of strength and fragility.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit comes in at number one this weekend. Wow animation seems to be where it's at. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride comes in at number 6 this week with another 6 million dollars bringing its total to $42,145,000. The most profitable movie so far in the top ten though is a serious suspenseful drama. Flightplan has $60,940,000 so far in it's total.

Comic book fan Nicolas Cage has named his new born baby Kal-El which of course is the Kryptonian name of Superman. Cage is no stranger to Superman or comics. He was scheduled to play in Tim Burton's Superman movie before it was scrapped. He will be starring as comic book hero Ghost Rider next year, and his last name Cage was inspired by Marvel Comics Black super hero Luke Cage aka Power Man.

Flightplan stays number one with 15 million big ones. The failed TV show turned movie by Joss Whedon, Serenity came in at number two with 10.1 million. The last time I can remember a canceled TV series became a successful movie were the Naked Gun movies that were based on the Police Squad TV show.

Here's the latest box office numbers for the weekend of Sept 25. Look's like Tim Burton's new animated movie didn't get the top spot, but still managed to get over 20 million. Chalk up another hit for Johnny Depp who has been racking up the big hits since the Pirates of the Caribbean.

The actor who played Butch on the Little Rascals and Our Gang shorts, Thomas Ross Bond has died at the age of 79. Bond died Saturday of complications from heart disease at Northridge Hospital, said his manager, Frank Marks.

There are probably a lot of people who don't realize the Little Rascals bully was actually Jimmy Olsen before his television counterpart Jack Larson who starred alongside the TV legend George Reeves.Bond starred as Jimmy Olsen twice in the 1940's Superman movie serials with Kirk Alyn. He starred in Atom Man Vs. Superman and the original Superman movie serial.

He also appeared as a student on the Bedtime for Bonzo with Ronald Reagan. In 1951, Bond quit acting and went into television directing and production work before retiring in 1991.

He will probably be forever known for the big bully who gave Alfalfa such a hard time on the Little Rascals. Thanks to television those adventures may live on indefinitely. At least I saw them a million times as a kid growing up back in the 1980's.

There are new posters for the much anticipated sequels for Pirates of the Caribbean and Zorro.

The Zorro Posters feature Zorro (Antonio Banderas) and Mrs. Zorro played by Catherine Zeta-Jones with her sword drawn. The title of the next Zorro picture is "The Legend of Zorro". In this one Zorro has to help California became a state of the good ol' USA.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as comedies go was mildly entertaining. As sci-fi movies go it was a bunch of cripe mate, to use the language of the talking mice in this movie. It was just plain weird. Spaceballs it ain't.

Here's the box office score for Sept 18, 2005
1 Just Like Heaven $16,500,000
2 The Exorcism of Emily Rose $15,300,000
3 Lord of War $9,200,000
4 The 40-Year-Old Virgin $5,847,000
5 Cry Wolf $4,551,000

Jackie Chan remarked at the premiere of his latest movie, "The Myth" "The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act." Jackie now 51 years old, says he's too old and hurts too much to keep going in the action business. Fans may want to flock to the next couple of Chan movies if they want to see him still fight. Thankfully, for fans "Rush Hour 3" is due next year.