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John Leguizamo is the latest star to join the cast of Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," which also includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Zendaya.

The estate of Joseph Shuster, the co-creator of “Superman,” is suing to stop the man of steel from taking flight in several major international territories just months before the newest, highly anticipated “Superman” movie is released.

The federal suit, filed Friday in New York’s Southern District, alleges that DC Comics’ international rights for “Superman” expired in 2017 and 2021 in key countries including the U.K., Australia and Canada. DC Comics is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.

The suit claims that despite the expiration of the international rights, DC and Warner continued to use the original work as well as related television series, videogames and merchandise.

“These foreign copyright laws were specifically designed to protect creators like my Uncle Joe. That is what we’re fighting for here,” said Mark Warren Peary, executor of the Shuster estate.

Warner and DC weren’t immediately available for comment.

The coming “Superman” movie, starring David Corenswet making his debut as the red-caped superhero, is scheduled to open in theaters July 11. It is the first stand-alone “Superman” movie since 2013, and revitalizing the character is a priority for Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Executive David Zaslav.

The suit is the latest salvo in a battle over the “Superman” copyright that dates back to 1938, when Shuster and co-creator Jerry Siegel sold their original “Superman” character and story to DC for $130.

The story became a hit and the two creators were paid by the page for future stories, but received no royalties. In 1947 the pair unsuccessfully took DC to court in an effort to win back the copyright.

Since then, “Superman” has been the subject of periodic litigation among the creators, their estates and DC. In 1992, DC agreed to continue paying to Shuster’s sister the $25,000 stipend that he received, instead of the $5,000 it was contractually obligated to pay, based on a deal Warner struck a few decades before that. The estate of “Superman” co-creator Jerry Siegel has been operating under a settlement agreement with DC since 2013.

Friday’s filing cites the so-called “Dickens provision” in U.K. copyright law that states a copyright that has been granted to a third party automatically reverts back to the author’s estate 25 years after their death. Shuster died in 1992.

Canadian law requires that in the case of a joint work, the copyright reverts 25 years after both authors have passed. Siegel died in 1996.

The Shuster estate is seeking an order stopping Warner and DC from licensing and using the “Superman” property in any of the territories where the rights revert after 25 years without getting a copyright license from the estate, as well as damages to be determined at trial.

Marc Toberoff, the attorney representing the Shuster estate, said DC and Warner Bros.’ profiting off “Superman” in those territories “blatantly violates” the copyright laws.

If successful, the suit could have broader implications for the industry when it comes to securing or maintaining copyrights, particularly in overseas markets where movie studios have enormous audiences for their superhero and action franchises.

Toberoff said in an interview that the suit isn’t meant to deprive fans of their next “Superman” movie, but rather “seek just compensation for Joe Shuster’s fundamental contributions as the co-creator of the character.”

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Chris Evans says reports that he's returning in "Avengers: Doomsday" are not true.

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The drubbing of the Michelle Yeoh-led streaming film now holds a dubious title—one that reflects something much more interesting than simple schadenfreude.

It has graced tea towels and cushions, mugs and socks, and spawned numerous Instagram accounts and coffee table books galore. Now brutalism, the once-maligned postwar architectural style of chiselled concrete forms, has finally reached Hollywood, in the form of an epic three-and-a-half-hour film that looks set to sweep the Oscars. You would think that architecture fans would be thrilled to have their subject in the limelight for a change. But they are raging.

There is nothing more irritating to enthusiasts than when the mainstream tries to portray their niche world and gets it wrong. And The Brutalist gets an awful lot wrong. Just as Gladiator II recently vexed classicists with its inaccurate portrayal of the emperors and its anachronistic scenes of people reading the newspaper and drinking at cafes (neither of which, apparently, existed at the time), so too has director Brady Corbet riled the architecture world by playing fast and loose with his interpretation of brutalism, the Bauhaus, postwar immigration and the basic process of architecture itself.

While the film world has showered the movie with five-star reviews – praising its heroic ambition, and drooling at the “authenticity” of shooting with hulking 1950s VistaVision cameras – architecture critics have been up in arms. “The Brutalist gets architecture wrong,” declared the Washington Post. It “perpetuates a colossal cliche,” fumed the Financial Times. Three prominent American architecture critics even got together to record a dedicated podcast, titled Why the Brutalist Is a Terrible Movie.

It was the year 2000 when Ridley Scott surprised the cinemas with this film set in ancient Rome. It soon became one of the biggest hits of a century that had just begun, but not everything has been a bed of roses for this film. The project began with David Franzoni, who based his first draft on the essay Those About to Die by Daniel P. Mannix, but everything changed with the arrival of Ridley Scott. From there, the collaboration of several screenwriters was necessary to give the story its final form.

But if there was one thing that was not lacking in this process, it was tension in the team, especially due to Russell Crowe’s critical attitude towards the dialogues… The actor had no qualms about commenting years later that his lines were “garbage”, going so far as to say: “I am the best actor in the world and I can even make garbage sound good.”

Crowe was aware at the time that one of the most important things for any actor is to convey his messages emotionally, but the actor rejected several lines from his script and continually wanted to remove them or rewrite them. What’s more, even one of his character’s most iconic lines, “My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius (…) And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next”, was initially rejected by the actor.

Four major recent films from Disney have disappeared from the Disney+ streaming service in the UK - one of which is now exclusive elsewhere.

TLDR: Barbarian and Amsterdam never received a UK physical media release, and are available to digitally buy and rent. Disney issued a DVD and Blu-ray of The Banshees Of Inisherin, that remains in print. It, too, is available to buy and rent via video on demand services. The Creator is available on physical media but has moved to Amazon Prime.

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Lady Gaga explained why 'Joker: Folie à Deux' didn't 'connect' with audiences how she 'intended' it to.

ACTOR Kriti Sanon has been cast alongside Dhanush in Aanand L Rai’s upcoming movie “Tere Ishk Mein”, the makers announced on Tuesday.....

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Forrest Gump and Mrs Doutbfire come to mind, what are yours?

It’s looking like a pretty tame Sundance Film Festival in terms of buzzy titles this year. We’re currently on Day 4, and the consensus seems to be that Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” produced by A24, is the best buzzed title (81 on Metacritic). There’s still another day left for world premieres so, hopefully, they saved the best for last.

‘If I Had Legs,’ which is also supposed to screen, in competition, at the Berlin Film Festival next month, is said to feature a career-best turn from Rose Byrne, an incredibly underrated actress who finally gets her due here.

In the film, Byrne plays Linda, a woman who attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. In a nutshell her life, and mental psyche, are crumbling before her very eyes. No surprise, the film is being compared to another film with similar themes, John Cassavetes’ “Woman Under the Influence.”

1. Moana
2. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
3. Red One
4. Trolls Band Together
5. Minions
6. Encanto
7. Frozen
8. Paw Patrol: The Movie
9. Inside Out
10. The Boss Baby