Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Warner Home Video's Batman Begins shot to first place on both the preliminary national sales and rental charts. It ranks as the top-selling DVD so far this fourth quarter, with nearly 4 million copies sold in the week ended October 23.

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.

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Fantastic Four director Tim Story recently discussed the upcoming release of the Fantastic Four DVD with www.f4movies.com . He said that they would be adding several special effects scenes to the movie for the DVD release. He also mentioned some scenes featuring Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters. He also remarked that it would be fantastic if he got to work on a sequel for the Fantastic Four.

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!

It's been reported that Hugh Jackman has turned down the role of James Bond 007 after talking to his wife. He felt he didn't need it to boost his already high profile career.

X-men 3 casting includes Olivia Williams as Dr. Moira MacTaggert, the Nobel Prize-winning Moira was a former lover of Professor X's who ran a mutant research center on Muir Island in her native Scotland. She also the mother of the mutant known as Proteus. It's rumored that Bill Duke from the Predator, Payback, National Security and Red Dragon has been cast as well.

Newlyweds Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck would like to star in their first movie as husband and wife. The dynamic duo married this summer. They first met during the filming of Daredevil in 2003. Jennifer of course played Elektra, Daredevil's movie and comic book love interest. Jennifer Garner said, "Ben says it's in the early stages." All super hero activities will have to wait though until their new baby is born this autumn.

A Batman special edtion dvd gift set will be arriving in stores October 18 this year. It will feature all four Batman movies from the 1980's and 1990's.
It will also contain 9 music videos from Prince, Seal, and the Smashing Pumpkins. Other bonus features contain director commentaries by Joel Schumacher and Tim Burton, cast and crew interviews, several new documentaries, and "making of" featurettes. Now let me just take this time to complain. I just got the last gift set at Walmart because I could finally afford it. No wonder it was cheaper. It didn't have all these cool extras! Holy disappointment Batman! Oh well. If your looking for Batman dvds with a complete list of released movies and cartoon so far check out this page Batman dvds. You might want to bookmark it too in case your interested in ordering the new Batman dvd special edition gift set.