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The Wire and Jack Ryan star Wendell Pierce will play the Dcu's Perry White in Superman. While he has been spotted from afar in set photos, the actor just hyped up today's trailer with a new look at his cigar-chomping Daily Planet Editor-in-Chief.

We don't know what to expect from this version of Perry but on the page, he's a key supporting character in Clark Kent's world.

Pierce hasn't said much about his Superman role but, earlier this year, expressed his excitement about joining the franchise. "I did not know how big it was. I really did not know...the announcement was bigger than the story. That was a pleasant surprise," he admitted. "It's humbling, and I'm looking forward to it."

Many actors have played Perry White on screen, starting with Pierre Watkin in Columbia Pictures' popular Superman serials in the 1940s. John Hamilton, Lane Smith, Michael McKean, Jackie Cooper,...

Kcet topped the list of Los Angeles TV stations with the most wins,10, at the 76th local Emmy Awards handed out by the Television Academy Saturday. It was followed by Kvea and Spectrum News 1 with 4 each, ABC7 and CBS2/KCAL9 with 3 and KTLA5 and Spectrum SportsNet with two.

One of KTLA5’s two Emmys went to the station’s veteran Ktla entertainment reporter Sam Rubin, who died of a heart attack in May. He was recognized for his news coverage of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Three stations split the honors for Regularly Scheduled Newscast in the different day parts: Spectrum News 1 (morning), Kcal (Daytime) and Kvea (evening).

Here is a full list of winners:

Investigative News Story

Student Stabbed CBS2/KCAL9

(Kcal News At 11Pm)

Ross Palombo, Reporter, Writer

Angie Moriconi, Editor, Photographer

Feature Segment

Little Amal (Artbound) Kcet

Nic Cha Kim, Producer

Marley Lister, Associate Producer

Angela Boisvert,...

Despite low critic scores, The Notebook remains a timeless romance classic with authentic chemistry and stellar performances. Unfortunately, The Notebook is not available for streaming, though new Apple subscribers can watch it for free. It can also be rented or purchased online for a fair price. Fans of The Notebook may opt to purchase the film for repeated viewing at $14.99, as it's the type of movie that people revisit often.

For those looking to watch The Notebook, there are a few options that are easy to access. The Notebook released in 2004, and it's considered one of the quintessential tearjerker romances. It stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in the roles that arguably kicked off their individual rises to international stardom. Based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook follows a young couple in the 1940s, Noah (Gosling) and Allie (McAdams), who fall in love but...

Photo: Catherine Bell, Eva Tavares, Simon Farrell, James Denton Credit: ©2023 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Allister Foster

The critically acclaimed Hallmark movie, Christmas on Cherry Lane was a popular part of the feel-good network’s holiday movies in 2023.

No doubt, for this reason, Hallmark Channel has just ordered three new Christmas on Cherry Lane films as a Christmas movie franchise. Read on to find out what we know so far and when production will actually begin on this series of movies.

Hallmark to release three more Christmas on Cherry Lane movies Photo: Catherine Bell, James Denton Credit: ©2023 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Allister Foster

According to the Cinemaholic, the feel-good network starts production on the second installment of Christmas on Cherry Lane in late June with the working title Christmas on Cherry Lane #2. The filming will take place in the Lower Mainland in British Columbia.

Following this, the third movie will start production in July,...

Randolph Scott fights to let the railroad go through in this old-fashioned rip-snorting action adventure movie, the kind where shooting bad guys means never having to say you're sorry. Jane Wyatt gets top billing but the big burner on this prairie is newcomer Nancy Olson, who puts more sex appeal into her homegrown heroine than all of her later roles combined. Canadian Pacific Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1949 / Color /1:37 flat Academy / 95 min. / Street Date August 9, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carrol Nash, Victor Jory, Nancy Olson, Robert Barrat, Walter Sande, Don Haggerty, Grandon Rhodes, John Hamilton, George Chandler, Holmes Herbert, Norman Jewison, Chief Yowlachie. Cinematography Fred Jackman, Jr., Film Editor Philip Martin Art Direction Ernst Fegeé Original Music Dimitri Tiomkin Written by Jack DeWitt, Kenneth Gamet story by Jack DeWitt Produced by Nat Holt Directed by Edwin L. Marin Reviewed by Glenn Erickson All Randolph Scott movies aren't created equal,...

Actress Noel Neill has died at the age of 95. The first live-action Lois Lane, Neill is most widely known for starring in the syndicated Adventures of Superman TV show opposite George Reeves as Superman and alter-ego, Clark Kent. Neill was a recast on the super-hero action series, replacing Phyllis Coates, who played the ace reporter in the 1951 feature film, Superman and the Mole Men. In first run, Adventures of Superman premiered in 1952 and ran through 1958, with Neil joining in 1953.The Adventures of Superman TV series cast also includes: John Hamilton, Bill Kennedy, Jack Larson (pictured above with Neill in 2006), and Robert Shayne. Primarily working in...

Blinded by science! And no, it's not a sequel to Donovan's Reef.  Lew Ayres yanks the living brain out of a dying millionaire, plugs it into his mad lab gizmos, and is soon obeying the know-it-all noggin's telepathic commands to scheme and murder. Gene Evans and Nancy Reagan assist in Curt Siodmak's creative, compelling tale of possession by mental remote control. Donovan's Brain Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1953 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 83 min. / Street Date March 22, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Reagan, Steve Brodie, Tom Powers, Lisa K. Howard, James Anderson, Victor Sutherland, Harlan Warde, John Hamilton. Cinematography Joseph H. Biroc Film Editor Herbert L. Strock Production Design Boris Leven Original Music Eddie Dunstedter Written by Felix Feist, Hugh Brooke from the novel by Curt Siodmak Produced by Allan Dowling, Tom Gries Directed by Felix E. Feist

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

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Stop! Don't touch that dial... if you like your atom-age propaganda straight up, MGM has the movie for you, an expensive 1946 docu-drama that became 'the official story' for the making of the bomb. The huge cast includes Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Audrey Totter, Hume Cronyn, Hurd Hatfield, and Joseph Calleia. How trustworthy is the movie? It begins by showing footage of a time capsule being buried -- that supposedly contains the film we are watching. Think about that. Mom, Apple Pie, the Flag and God are enlisted to argume that we should stop worrying and love the fact that bombs are just peachy-keen dandy. The Beginning or the End DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1947 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 112 min. / Street Date September 22, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Audrey Totter, Hume Cronyn, Hurd Hatfield, Joseph Calleia, Godfrey Tearle, Victor Francen,...

Virginia Bruce: MGM actress ca. 1935. Virginia Bruce movies on TCM: Actress was the cherry on 'The Great Ziegfeld' wedding cake Unfortunately, Turner Classic Movies has chosen not to feature any non-Hollywood stars – or any out-and-out silent film stars – in its 2015 “Summer Under the Stars” series.* On the other hand, TCM has come up with several unusual inclusions, e.g., Lee J. Cobb, Warren Oates, Mae Clarke, and today, Aug. 25, Virginia Bruce. A second-rank MGM leading lady in the 1930s, the Minneapolis-born Virginia Bruce is little remembered today despite her more than 70 feature films in a career that spanned two decades, from the dawn of the talkie era to the dawn of the TV era, in addition to a handful of comebacks going all the way to 1981 – the dawn of the personal computer era. Career highlights were few and not all that bright. Examples range from playing the...

Robert Walker: Actor in MGM films of the '40s. Robert Walker: Actor who conveyed boy-next-door charms, psychoses At least on screen, I've always found the underrated actor Robert Walker to be everything his fellow – and more famous – MGM contract player James Stewart only pretended to be: shy, amiable, naive. The one thing that made Walker look less like an idealized “Average Joe” than Stewart was that the former did not have a vacuous look. Walker's intelligence shone clearly through his bright (in black and white) grey eyes. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” programming, Turner Classic Movies is dedicating today, Aug. 9, '15, to Robert Walker, who was featured in 20 films between 1943 and his untimely death at age 32 in 1951. Time Warner (via Ted Turner) owns the pre-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library (and almost got to buy the studio outright in 2009), so most of Walker's movies have...

Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in ‘Gone with the Wind’: TCM schedule on August 20, 2013 (photo: Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel in ‘Gone with the Wind’) See previous post: “Hattie McDaniel: Oscar Winner Makes History.” 3:00 Am Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943). Director: David Butler. Cast: Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Eddie Cantor, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, George Tobias, Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall, Hattie McDaniel, Ruth Donnelly, Don Wilson, Spike Jones, Henry Armetta, Leah Baird, Willie Best, Monte Blue, James Burke, David Butler, Stanley Clements, William Desmond, Ralph Dunn, Frank Faylen, James Flavin, Creighton Hale, Sam Harris, Paul Harvey, Mark Hellinger, Brandon Hurst, Charles Irwin, Noble Johnson, Mike Mazurki, Fred Kelsey, Frank Mayo, Joyce Reynolds, Mary Treen, Doodles Weaver. Bw-127 mins. 5:15 Am Janie (1944). Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton,...

Humphrey Bogart movies: ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ ‘High Sierra’ (Image: Most famous Humphrey Bogart quote: ‘The stuff that dreams are made of’ from ‘The Maltese Falcon’) (See previous post: “Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Movies.”) Besides 1948, 1941 was another great year for Humphrey Bogart — one also featuring a movie with the word “Sierra” in the title. Indeed, that was when Bogart became a major star thanks to Raoul Walsh’s High Sierra and John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon. In the former, Bogart plays an ex-con who falls in love with top-billed Ida Lupino — though both are outacted by ingénue-with-a-heart-of-tin Joan Leslie. In the latter, Bogart plays Dashiel Hammett’s private detective Sam Spade, trying to discover the fate of the titular object; along the way, he is outacted by just about every other cast member, from Mary Astor’s is-she-for-real dame-in-distress to Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nominee Sydney Greenstreet. John Huston...

Zack Snyder'S Superman reboot has recruited its Daily Planet editor-in-chief.

Laurence Fishburne is to play Perry White in Man of Steel, according to Entertainment Weekly.

And he'll be the first black portrayal of the character in all of Superman's iterations in comics, radio, TV and film. Perry is known for his expression "Great Caesar's ghost!", an exclamation that originated in John Hamilton's performance in the 50s TV and radio series.

White was portrayed by Jackie Cooper in the four Christopher Reeve movies, by Lane Smith in 80s TV show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, by Frank Langella in Superman Returns and by Michael McKean in Smallville.

Fishburne - who had left his role in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in June - joins a Man of Steel cast which includes Henry Cavill as Superman/Clark Kent, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Michael Shannon as General Zod,...

Superman fans, we have a new Perry White: Laurence Fishburne will play the Daily Planet chief in Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel," as reported earlier today. He's the first African-American actor to step into the veteran newsman's shoes, but he's far from the first person to play the role.

Click the photo below to see our gallery of the men who've played Perry White in the past, and read on for a bit of information on each of them.

John Hamilton

Tip your hats to actor John Hamilton, who pioneered Perry White's first on-screen appearance in "The Adventures of Superman." As the earliest live-action Perry, the man kicked off a character that saw several other notable actors fill out his shoes over the years.

Jackie Cooper

Perhaps the most popular actor to play the role, Jackie Cooper was Clark Kent's boss at the Daily Planet over the course of...

Laurence Fishburne is set to play Perry White, the no-nonsense and sometimes cantankerous editor of the Daily Planet, in "Man of Steel" for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures says the trades.

The studio has no comment about Fishburne's casting in the Superman reboot at this time. The role has previously been played by John Hamilton in the original 50's TV series, Jackie Cooper in the Christopher Reeve films, Lane Smith in the 90's series "Lois and Clark", George Dzundza in the animated 90's "Superman" series, Frank Langella in "Superman Returns", and most recently Michael McKean in "Smallville".

Fishburne joins a cast that includes Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Christopher Meloni, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane and Harry Lennix. The project is Fishburne's first high-profile role since leaving "C.S.I." this past June.

Laurence Fishburne has joined the cast of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel in the role of Perry White, EW reports. The Editor-in-Chief of Clark Kent's newspaper outlet, "The Daily Planet", White made his first appearance in "Superman" #7 in 1940 and was famous for his steadfast journalistic integrity and his catchphrase, "Great Caesar's Ghost!"(which was originated on the 1950's radio show by actor John Hamilton). Jackie Cooper played the role in the original Richard Donner Superman films with Frank Langella performing as the character in 2006's Superman Returns . Michael McKean guest-starred as White on the television adaptation, "Smallville". Fishburne, famous to genre fans for his role as Morpheus in The Matrix , will join Henry...

Lauren goes back through the life and times of Superman, looking at the Man Of Steel's adventures in shorts and TV shows, and the actors who have donned the tights...

Superman is the last surviving son from the planet Krypton, who gets sent to Earth by his birth parents in order to protect him from getting caught up in the devastating blast on Krypton that doesn't just wipe out the entire population, but wipes the entire planet off the map.

Of course, we already know all of this, and the story has been re-told over and over again, sometimes in different ways throughout comics and on screen.

To celebrate the success of Smallville, which is coming to an end, and to also help keep anticipation for the up and coming Superman film, Man Of Steel, flying high, I'm going to look at the live-action Superman short films and shows,...

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. -- Erasmus

One afternoon in Cape Town I sat in my little room at University House and took inventory. This must have been in June, winter in the southern hemisphere, and it had been raining steadily for most of a week. I was virtually alone in the student residence; the others had packed off for vacation. With an umbrella and plastic slicker I'd ventured out once or twice to the Pig and Whistle, where I favored the Ploughman's Lunch, but to sustain life I'd laid in a supply of tinned sardines, cheddar and swiss cheese, Hob Nobs, apples, Carr's Water Biscuits, ginger cookies, Hershey bars, biltong, sausage and a pot of jam. I had a little electric coil that would bring a cup of water to a boil, a jar of Nescafe,...