This week's box office was ruled by Tom Welling in the new movie "The Fog" making over 12 million dollars over the weekend. Welling may be on his way to becoming a major motion picture star with no worries over being type cast as Clark Kent in Smallville.

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.

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.

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.

If your looking for more pics of Superman Returns besides the infamous one that first showed us the changes that were in store for the Man of Steel. Then check out Brandon Routh Site - Gallery To navigate to all 12 pages once your there run your mouse alongside the bottom green line after the number 1 and you'll see the rest of the page links light up as your mouse runs over them.

It looks like once the smoke has cleared over the super hero box office war this summer that Batman has indeed beaten the Fantastic Four. Yes, all four of the super heroes were no match for Batman Begins! Batman has made it over the 200 million dollar range which would be a record for the Caped Crusader except for the very first major motion picture focusing on Batman starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton still holds the title as the Bat Champion. The Tim Burton movie made a awesome 251 million dollars!

When asked about the progress on Superman
Returns, chief Alan Horn told Fox news, Newcomer Brandon Routh, he says,
"looks just like Superman. But we knew we had to overcome the fact that
Chris Reeve was so beloved and that everyone thinks of him in the role."

Both Superman and Batman animated dvd releases are on their way. Batman's will more than likely come first, and will be pitting Batman vs Dracula. Batman has already had quite a few of straight to video releases from the same creative team as the highly acclaimed Batman the Animated Series. Superman's dvd release will be timed to go along with Superman Returns big theatre release. Duane Capizzi, supervising producer of The Batman television series, is writing both films. Quote from Capizzi, "With Superman, I kind of fell into this project and boy, I've really grown to love him," Capizzi said. "It's a story where Superman is really driven by his passions. And it's sort of the Seven Labors of Hercules, where he literally goes to the ends of the Earth -- and then some -- to rescue somebody very important to him."