The Superman Super Site has teamed with Screen Archives Entertainment to give away one (1) boxed set of "Superman: The Music (1978 - 1988)" for the month of July contest!

"Superman: The Music (1978 - 1988)" is an 8CD set of the complete scores to the four Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve, with music by John Williams (for the original) adapted by his colleagues Ken Thorne and Alexander Courage for the sequels. Bonus discs include music by Ron Jones for a 1988 Superman animated series and source music for the features, all packaged in a deluxe hardcover slipcase with a 160-page illustrated hardcover book.

To enter, just fill in your name and email address below - (Voting is limited to one entry per person). A winner will be drawn on Thursday, July 31st. Good luck to everyone who enters!

E! Online staff writer Jennifer Godwin recently conducted an interview with Samuel Witwer about his new role as Davis "Doomsday" Bloome on Smallville. Here's an excerpt:

Godwin: How is "Doomsday" introduced?
Witwer: He's brought into the story when he strikes up a friendship with Chloe (Allison Mack) on the show. Chloe is dating Jimmy Olsen (Aaron Ashmore), so he doesn't want to step in—he's too nice of a guy to steal her. Because who wants to steal from Jimmy Olsen? Sweet little red-haired kid. Anyway, David starts losing large amounts of time. He's blacking out. He doesn't understand why.

Godwin: Uh-oh.
Witwer: Yeah, eventually this character will embark on a quest to find out why these blackouts are happening, and what he discovers is horrifying for the character, and hopefully horrifying for the audience. The producers, I don't know if they saw me in "The Mist" or in "Dexter", but they approached me for the role, and they pitched a very interesting idea, and they wanted to get dark with it. Like darker than anything than anything that's been on the show. They want to get really psychologically messed-up.

Godwin: It must be really hard for Davis when he finds out he's a psychotic supervillain.
Witwer: Yeah. There are some really cool ideas around that. What do you when you find out you are the opposite of what you ever wanted to be? If you found out you were a murderer, and you didn't know this, what would you do? By the end of the season, in Davis Bloome's case, he's going to be trying to be the same guy, but he's...distressed.

Godwin: Have you worked with any of the regulars yet?
Witwer: I worked with Allison Mack yesterday, and she's a sweetheart. She's sort of my contact person into the world of the characters and the story. As for how he relates to all the other characters, that remains to be seen.

Godwin: How long is this arc?
Witwer: I'm going to be there the whole season. We just started shooting this week, and over the course of the season, the fans will start to recognize Doomsday as he was in the comics, but at first that's not the case.

At Comic Con 2008, get free Warner Bros. news alerts, panel updates, talent signing schedules, and more sent directly to your cell phone by texting "COMIC" to 58671.

Warner Bros. is delighted to offer its fans an insider's advantage at Comic Con in San Diego July 24-27, 2008 by allowing them to receive up to the minute reminders and possible announcements on surprise appearances via WB's Comic Con mobile program.

In addition, fans opted-in will have access to the Warner Bros. official mobile/WAP site at http://getwb.mobi/comic launched in celebration of Comic Con that offers free downloads including videos, wallpapers, ring tones and more from titles such as Watchmen, Smallville, Terminator Salvation, DC Universe and Lost Boys: The Tribe.

Text "COMIC" to 58671 to get WB Comic Con Updates, free downloads and more! *Standard carrier rates may apply.*

Brandon Routh will be starring in this week's all-new episode of NBC's Horror Anthology Series "Fear Itself".

The episode is called "Community" and airs this Thursday, July 24th at 10PM on NBC. Here's the official synopsis:

When a young, married couple find the perfect house in the perfect neighborhood, their lives seem to be following the "American Dream". The dream slowly turns into a nightmare when they discover their new neighbors would go to any extreme to make sure the happy couple complies with their twisted sense of conformity.

Warner Home Video and DC Comics revive some of your favorite Filmation Associates-produced adventures with the release of "DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures" to DVD on August 12, 2008. This exciting 2-disc compilation features heroes from The Justice League of America and Teen Titans in a total of 18 classic cartoons.

Lou Scheimer, the legendary founder of the Filmation Animation Studio brought the DC Super Heroes to life with his incredible animated shows. Justice League favorites The Atom, The Flash, Green Lantern and Hawkman made their debut on ABC alongside the Teen Titans squad: Speedy, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl and Aqualad. Thrust into the eternal battle of good versus evil, the heroes are pitted against alien invaders and fantastical creatures from strange worlds, all intent on taking over planet Earth. Will the heroes be able to save mankind when danger calls? Watch as the original defenders of evil fight to defeat the villains and defend humanity.

DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures will include incredible DVD extras including a 45 minute in-depth documentary profile of Filmation Animation Studio and its legendary founder Lou Scheimer.

"Animation Maverick: The Lou Scheimer Story" – A documentary revealing the Filmation legacy, the formation of this iconic company and their unorthodox approach to creating animated shows while under the leadership of founder Lou Scheimer. The documentary will uncover the drive that made Scheimer one of America’s most successful animators and recognized talents in the industry.

TV Guide recently sat down with new Smallville showrunner Darren Swimmer to find out what awaits Chloe (Allison Mack) in season 8, as well as what's in store for Clark (Tom Welling) now that Lana and Lex have moved on.

Though some Smallville fans still hold out hope that Chloe and Clark will strike up a romance, Swimmer confirms that it's not going to happen anytime soon. "Chloe's love for Clark will never go away, but [those two] as a couple this year is pretty unlikely," he says. "All the 'Chlark' fans out there will have to keep waiting." Fans also shouldn't hold their breath waiting for Lois (Erica Durance) to die and for Chloe to become the real Lois Lane. "There is that theory that Chloe is Lois, but she is not Lois. Lois is Lois, as crazy as that may seem," Swimmer points out. "We hear the fans and we understand where that comes from. But unfortunately, it's not the way that the show is going."

As for Chloe's meteor powers, which caused much debate amongst loyal viewers, Swimmer says that next season, "She has powers, but they've changed. They won't manifest in the same way that they did before." He also mentions that Chloe will be dealing with some romantic twists, but will still find plenty of time to be a supportive friend for Clark.

Swimmer may not be willing to indulge the whims of every Smallville fan, but he does promise that the writers pay attention to fan reaction on the Internet. "We definitely hear what the fans say and we can't help but be influenced by it, but I don't think that we're guided by it in the sense that we let it dictate anything, obviously," he says. "I don't think that fans would necessarily want that either. But we read it and we're in touch with what the fans are saying. They're our core fans. I think sometimes when somebody says they don't like something they still may find it entertaining, so we have to gauge how much of that is a response to the characters or a response to the way the story is being told."

Those hoping to see more of Clark's Kryptonian background may be disappointed in season 8, as Swimmer plans to move the character toward his future instead of exploring his past. "I think we're moving away from the Kryptonian story," he says. "Last year we focused a lot on that and aspects of Clark's past. Clark can't escape his Kryptonian roots and that's definitely going to come back and haunt him this season, but this year will be more about moving forward with his destiny as becoming Superman in a way that we've never done before."

Smallville season 8 premieres on the CW September 18.

Den of Greek recently spoke with Mark Millar who continues to talk about how he wants to direct and revamp the Superman franchise. Millar talks in detail about his vision for Superman in the full interview. Here's an excerpt:

Can I ask how the Superman pitch is going?

It's quite weird actually, because I'd sort of given up on it. It's really odd; I've been a huge fan of Superman my entire life, and I felt like something just happened, a couple of years ago after I'd seen Superman Returns. Not to **** on the movie or anything, but I think it was just kind of …probably the way people felt after Star Wars: Episode 1, where…you know that feeling when you're sitting in the cinema on opening night with your friends, and I'd actually bought tickets [to Superman Returns] for all my brothers and friends and so on, and I did the same with [Phantom Menace] as well.

I genuinely had waited since 1987, Superman 4; buying magazines, checking it out online when the internet came along, just praying for a Superman movie. And managing to snare a draft of the Tim Burton scripts, and probably versions people haven't even bothered looking at. I've probably read them all. So I was really anticipating this Superman movie. In the end it just sort of came out and didn't do all that well, and it sort of deflated me on Superman; it took me a couple of years to get back into it again. Obviously Superman has a huge place in my heart.

The ‘director' phoned me about a month ago, and said ‘Look, I've got absolutely no authorisation from Warner Brothers, because Warners aren't looking in particular, but I want to have all my soldiers lined up, just in case." He said "I want to do a complete reboot of the Superman franchise". He said "I know you've got a huge passion for it and the buzz on Wanted is great". I think it was the week before Wanted opened. He said "I'd just like you to be a part of it. I think there'd be a really good fan reaction, because people have said they'd like to see what you'd do with it. And I'd just like you to be part of the team. Are you interested?".

[laughs] It took me a nanosecond to say ‘yes'. I've had the plot for an amazing Superman trilogy figured out since I was about ten, so I told him that and he loved it. When we were in the states, we met up – he's an American director, and he's a big, big deal in terms of action movies and so on. But in terms of courtesy, you have to wait and see if Bryan [Singer] is going to do any more. You can't just go in there and nick a project off a guy. If Bryan ends up standing back and goes to move on and do something else, we'll be in there like a shot.

The Plain Dealer newspaper reports that a special screening of "Last Son," the documentary on Superman by Case Western Reserve University professor Brad Ricca, will be shown at 12:30pm Saturday, July 26th at the Westfield Insurance Studio Theater in the Idea Center at 1375 Euclid Ave. as part of the IngenuityFest in Cleveland, Ohio. It will be shown again at 4:30pm Sunday, July 27, at the same location.

Both showings will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Ricca, an expert on all things Superman.

Ricca has been working on "Last Son" for several years, researching dusty archives and interviewing friends, relatives and associates of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Glenville buddies who created arguably the most recognizable literary character in the world.

"Last Son" is a Depression-era, coming-of-age story that explains Superman's historical, social and cultural significance by tracing his beginnings and the society in which he was created.

"Think about it: Why does the hero wear a skintight costume with underwear on the outside?" Ricca poses. "With boots? And a spit curl? And an S' on the chest?"

Ricca said his documentary answers those questions and the deeper one: Why was Superman created at all? Did that creation come from a single flash of inspiration as generally reported or was the creation more subtle?

Included in the documentary are:

-New access to Siegel and Shuster's high school newspaper, the Glenville Torch, as well as personal papers and notebooks that reveal many new truths about the evolution of Siegel and Shuster as artists.

-New evidence about Siegel and Shuster's first Superman story, not the one seen in "Action Comics" No. 1 in 1938, and "the shocking secret origin" of that first Superman story.

-"Last Son" catalogs. The last visual remnants of Siegel and Shuster's Cleveland explores the role of the city's inhabitants, the economics and architecture played in the Superman mythos.

-The rediscovery of Shuster's first published artwork -- which is not a comic.

-The revelation of the identity of the real inspiration for Lois Lane. For years, several women in Cleveland have claimed to be the real Lois Lane. Ricca settles the matter and produces an important supportive artifact that had been missing for 70 years.

-Excerpts from newly discovered films of Siegel and Shuster in domestic and professional settings, culminating "in the greatest day of their lives -- which was also the beginning of the end."

For more information, visit the "Last Son" Web site at www.greendoorfilms.com

Mhari Saito of American Public Radion recently interviewed Jefferson and Hattie Gray, the current owners of Jerry Siegel's childhood home in Glenville, Ohio. Here's an excerpt:

"We have all kinds of people come up on the porch when we're not here," 60-year-old Jefferson Gray says. "They take pictures and leave a note saying 'We've been by.'"

The house is no museum. But they have painted the outside blue and red, Superman's colors. Visitors lucky enough to find the Grays at home when they arrive tromp through their children's bedrooms. It's a tour the Grays have given dozens of times. Jerry Siegel's relatives visited from Florida once and told the Grays what they knew of the superhero's origins. Siegel's cousins lived in the house during the Great Depression.

"This was supposed to have been Jerry's room right here," Hattie says, standing outside a bedroom on the second floor.

"He did most of his writing from that room and in the attic," Jefferson adds.

"He looked out the window all the time," Jefferson says of Siegel. He holds back the curtain. The window provides a view of a large tree in the back yard. Gray says it's only grown there since they moved in.

Standing in the small space, it's easy to imagine a kid sitting in here, looking out the window and dreaming fantastic tales.

"At nighttime," Jefferson Gray says, "when you are sitting here, you can see the sun, the moon and then the sun rising. It's a beautiful view."

The Grays have opened their home to strangers again and again without the assistance of any state or local aid. Jefferson Gray doesn't mind. He says owning Superman's house has introduced him to people he would have never otherwise met.

"Most of the time people get frightened about the neighborhood: 'I'm scared to go in that neighborhood,'" Gray imagines them thinking. "You have to deal with that all the time. But then when I see people come in with friendly faces... I've never heard one person say one bad thing since they've been coming over here."

The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library in Toledo, Michigan is marking seven decades of Superman with its “Superman at 70!” program at 7 p.m. July 21 in the McMaster Center at the Main Library, 325 Michigan St.

Comic book historian and Toledo Free Press Staff Writer Jim Beard will host a retrospective on the most famous comic book character of all time, including a live, interactive video conference with a “who's who” panel of Superman and comic book writers: Geoff Johns, James Robinson and Sterling Gates. Johns writes for “Action Comics,” a comic book series which introduced Superman in 1938. Robinson is a writer for DC Comic's Superman title. Gates is a writer of the Supergirl title.

The three writers' stories will soon be crossing each other's paths, as DC Comics is trying to interweave the three series together in marking Superman's 70th anniversary.

If you would like to register for this event, please call the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library at 419-259-5297.

TVGuide.com reports that Warner Bros. will be handing out a "Smallville/Supernatural" tote bag at Comic-Con International (July 24-27).

I raised my eyebrow, too. But I have since been educated by a lovely lady that at last summer's Comic-Con, Warner Bros.' oversized Smallville tote (featuring the animated Superman: Doomsday movie on the reverse) was quite the unexpected sensation, and as such was snatched up at a super-fast rate - with several especially passionate fans fashioning the freebie into convention-appropriate clothing.

"Smallville" has received an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series" for the Season 7 episode "Bizarro".

Smallville - "Bizarro"
Tollin/Robbins Productions, Millar/Gough Ink and Warner Bros. Television
Michael E. Lawshe, Supervising Sound Editor
Norval 'Charlie' Crutcher III, Supervising ADR Editor
Jessica Dixon, Dialogue Editor
Marc Meyer, Supervising Sound Effects Editor
Timothy Cleveland, Sound Effects Editor
Paul Diller, Sound Effects Editor
Albert Gomez, Sound Effects Editor
Casey Crabtree, Foley Artist
Michael Crabtree, Foley Artist
Chris McGeary, Music Editor

New Frontier While "Justice League: The New Frontier" was nominated for an Emmy in the "Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour Or More" category.

Justice League: The New Frontier
Warner Bros. on demand - Warner Bros. Animation
Bruce Timm, Executive Producer
Sander Schwartz, Executive Producer
Michael Goguen, Supervising Producer
David Bullock, Directed By
Stan Berkowitz, Written By
Darwyn Cooke, Written By (Additional Material)
James Tim Walker, Animation Timing Supervisor

Check out the official Emmy Awards website for a complete list of all 2008 Primetime Emmy nominations.

As part of the British Film Institute's comicbook movie season, BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX cinemas of London, England will be featuring special screenings of "Superman: The Movie - Director's Cut" (July 21st & 26th) and "Superman: II" (August 16th and 17th).

Other upcoming comicbook-based movies to be featured include Flash Gordon on Thursday (July 17) and July 27; The Rocketeer on July 19 and 25; Dick Tracy on July 21; V for Vendetta on July 22; The Dark Knight from July 24 to August 21; the animated film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm on July 28 and 31; Road to Perdition on August 1, 3 and 9; Spider-Man on August 3 and 31; Spider-Man 2 on August 5 and 31; a back-to-back screening of all 15 chapters of the 1943 Batman serial (with Lewis Wilson in the title role) on August 9.

There's also Hellboy on August 7 and 10; Sin City on August 10, 11 and 22; The Incredible Hulk on August 15, 17 and 21; Hellboy 2: The Golden Army on August 16; Iron Man from August 22 to 30; Spider-Man 3 on August 23 and 31; Wanted on August 24, 25 and 26.

A Movie-Con Weekend on August 16 features screenings, specials guests, signings, giveaways, a preview screening of Hellboy 2 and exclusive material from upcoming films such as Bolt, Watchmen and The Spirit.

For more information and bookings, check out the BFI website.

In 1981 the BBC aired a special presentation on Arena in the U.K. titled "The Comic Strip Hero" in which Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster discuss the creation of Superman.

Also included in the program were interviews with Kirk Alyn, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and others.

The hour long program has been uploaded to YouTube in 5 parts.

Part 1 - Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Part 2 - Sol Harrison, Kirk Alyn and Christopher Reeve.

Part 3 - Margot Kidder and David Prowse.

Part 4 - Superman and War, Superman Merchandise.

Part 5 - Larry Niven and Will Eisner.

Thanks to our friends at Superman Homepage for posting this story.

Sony Online Entertainment has for the first time shown off its upcoming MMO based on the DS comic world, dubbed DC Universe Online.

The game will allow games to take control of heroes such as Superman or Batman, and villains such as Lex Luthor or the Joker, in a console MMO universe that looks to finally bring MMO gaming to the console masses.

No release date or costs have yet been announced, though the game has been confirmed for both PS3 and PC.

Check out the high-resolution trailer for the game at IGN.com, or press play below to watch the YouTube version.