James Michael Hambrick passed away on Dec. 22, 2024, at age 70. To honor him and his achievements, the Daily Planet presents an exclusive Rooftop Conversation with his daughter, Morgan, and her husband, Adam.
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Colin Chilvers revolutionized film effects, notably with "Superman: The Movie," enabling unprecedented on-screen flight realism and inspiring future cinematic advancements and visual storytelling.
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The appearance, which he described with great humility in an impromptu street interview on TMZ as a “blink and you’ll miss it” cameo, was filmed on July 2, 2024, in downtown Cleveland. Onlookers caught a glimpse of the action and a sincere hug from director James Gunn.
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Will Reeve, the son of Christopher Reeve (and a reporter in his own right as an ABC News and “Good Morning America” correspondent), announced Wednesday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that the documentary based on his father’s life will be getting a worldwide release beginning October 11, 2024.
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In what has been dubbed by the media as the “Great North American Eclipse,” Earth’s moon passed in front of our sun for roughly four minutes today in some parts of Canada, Mexico, and the United States — darkening the skies in its path and providing America with the first eclipse of its kind in nearly a decade.
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I first met New York Times bestselling author Robert Venditti through his work, then in person at the Christopher Reeve Legacy Reunion in 2022, where he and “Superman ’78” co-collaborator/artist Wilfredo Torres were special guests (along with almost every surviving main cast member of the original Reeve films).
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The year was 1989. Micheal Keaton’s Batman was redefining the superhero movie genre for the first time since Christopher Reeve did it in 1978. Meanwhile, another Superman was hitting the airwaves – this time in Spain. A little-known actor from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria named…(cue John Williams music)… Javier Bardem.
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In 1938, Action Comics published a tale of an orphaned infant, sent away from everything he knew to have a chance at a better life, raised in a culture not his own, taught a language not his own, struggled to belong as someone “different,” and through it all wanted nothing more than to be accepted and give back to the home that adopted him.
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