Superman: The Blog

It’s hard to believe that it has been sixteen years since the release of the Superman Ultimate Collector’s Edition DVD set, and yet it marked one of the most substantial home video releases from Warner Home Video at that time. To this day it is highly regarded by both Superman fans and home video collectors…

Have you ever put together a jigsaw puzzle and noticed a couple of pieces missing? That’s always a problem. Now imagine your jigsaw puzzle missing a third of the pieces. Now that’s a significant problem. And yet that’s what happened with the theatrical release of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace in July 1987. Like…

So I’m in the middle of my look back at everything that went wrong with Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, when I received this in the mail a little while ago… This came as a result of the Official Pix autograph session with the legendary Gene Hackman, best known for his many films including…

According to a familiar saying, before you construct a building, be sure to count the cost. All of the elements that came together to make Superman IV seemed right. Christopher Reeve was back, the cast was in place, a solid story was in development, and for the first time things looked bright. So what happened…

It has been said that the best laid plans of mice and men go awry. The same can be said of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. When the film had been released to theaters on July 24, 1987, the anticipation for the fourth installment had quickly turned sour. Low attendance, coupled with an overall…

This will be a short blog today, but I wanted to give everyone a heads up following on yesterday’s blog about the Superman 4K releases next year… According to Bill Hunt of the Digital Bits website, Amazon.co.uk has posted a tentative release date for the upcoming 4k release of Superman III year. This is taken…

Here is a Muppet news flash… We now have an official updated word on the news of the Superman films coming to 4K next year, and this is straight from Warner Bros. directly. According to the remastering team at Warner Bros., only the theatrical versions of Superman: The Movie, Superman II, Superman III, and Superman…

One of the more interesting aspects of the Superman films is the usage of particular source music within each film. Whenever a film uses particular songs from a certain genre – whether pop, rock, country, oldies, you name it – licensing fees are paid to the respective holders of those songs so they can be…

So far I have addressed the differences between both versions of Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut and referenced the specific differences between the 116-minute version that was released on DVD, HD-DVD, and Blu-ray in 2006 and the longer 122-minute version that was released on multiple streaming platforms in 2015, focusing primarily on the footage…

Yesterday I discussed the additions that were found in the first Fortress of Solitude sequence in the longer alternate version of Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, found on Vudu and Amazon. Now let’s turn our attention to the Richard Lester footage that is in this alternate cut. The majority of the cuts to the…