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Batman/Superman movies 17 – Superman Returns
The year after Batman Begins released, the first major attempt to restart the Superman film franchise since Superman IV finally released, after decades of cancelled projects. The road to even getting to Superman Returns is a long and complicated one, … Continue reading
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Batman/Superman Movies 9 – Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
After Superman III ended up being a commercial disappointment, followed by the Supergirl movie straight up bombing, the Salkinds sold the Superman film rights to the Cannon Group. The Cannon Group has a complicated history, but in short, it’s a … Continue reading
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Batman/Superman movies 4 – Superman 1978
This is it, the big one. The main reason I wanted to start this blog series. Superman, directed by Richard Donner, is a very significant movie. It featured what was then groundbreaking visual effects, its massive success proved that superhero … Continue reading
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Batman/Superman movies 2 – Superman and the Mole Men
When people think of the old Superman movies, the Christopher Reeves quadrilogy usually comes to mind. Yet as influential and historically important as those movies are, they weren’t the first theatrically released Superman movies. Like with Batman, there were serials … Continue reading
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Tagged batman/superman movies, clark kent, eddie mannix, george reeves, lois lane, mole men, movie review, movies, phyllis coates, RKO Radio Pictures, robert maxwell, science fiction, superhero movie, superman, superman and the mole men, superman movie, toni mannix, whitney ellsworth
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Movie Review – Superman, the 1975 musical
I wrote this review a while ago for my other blog, and I’m now re-posting it here with a few minor changes. “It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman” was a broadway musical first produced in 1966. The show was generally … Continue reading
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