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Amy AdamsAmy Adams to play Lois Lane: The “Fighter” star will take on the iconic role in director Zack Snyder’s “Superman” reboot, due in 2012. Meanwhile, his “Sucker Punch” got smacked around a bit at the box office this weekend, coming in second to the latest “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” [Hero Complex]

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Adams cast as Superman's Lois Lane

Amy Adams, shown at the Oscars in February, will play Lois Lane in the new Superman film. Amy Adams, shown at the Oscars in February, will play Lois Lane in the new Superman film.

Amy Adams has landed the coveted role of Lois Lane in director Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman remake.

She'll play the ace Daily Planet newspaper reporter and love interest to British actor Henry Cavill's Clark Kent and Superman. Actors Diane Lane and Kevin Costner have also signed to portray the superhero's adoptive parents: Martha and Jonathan Kent.

Adams, 36, is a three-time Oscar nominee for best supporting actress: for 2010's The Fighter, 2008's Doubt and 2005's Junebug, which marked her breakout role in Hollywood.

As the new Lois Lane, she tackles a noted role that has previously been played on film by Noel Neill in the 1950s, Margot Kidder in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kate Bosworth in 2006. On TV, Teri Hatcher (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) and Erica Durance (Smallville) have portrayed the inquisitive journalist.

"Second only to Superman himself, the question of who will play Lois Lane is arguably what fans have been most curious about," Snyder said in announcing the casting.

He praised Adams as "one of the most versatile and respected actresses in films today. Amy has the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful."

Adams is also is set to star in the upcoming Muppets movie and portray Janis Joplin in a biopic about the late singer directed by Fernando Meirelles.

Amy Adams will play Lois Lane in new "Superman" movie

Superman has found his Lois Lane.

Amy Adams, the three-time Oscar nominee and star of such films as "Enchanted" and "The Fighter," will play The Daily Planet's plucky reporter in director Zack Snyder's upcoming reboot of the "Superman" comic-book franchise, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Snyder won't talk about how big a role Lois Lane will play in the new film, but she is "a linchpin" in the story. Lois also embodies the movie's contemporary spirit, Snyder said.

“It goes back to what I’ve said about Superman and making him really understandable for today," Snyder told the Times. "What’s important to us is making him relevant and real and making him empathetic to today’s audience so that we understand the decisions he makes. That applies to Lois as well. She has to be in the same universe as him [in tone and substance].”

British actor Henry Cavill will portray Superman/Clark Kent in the film, due in theaters in 2012. Kevin Costner and Diane Lane have been cast as Superman's human foster parents, the Kents.


Amy Adams will play Lois Lane in new "Superman" movie


Superman has found his Lois Lane.

Amy Adams, the three-time Oscar nominee and star of such films as "Enchanted" and "The Fighter," will play The Daily Planet's plucky reporter in director Zack Snyder's upcoming reboot of the "Superman" comic-book franchise, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Snyder won't talk about how big a role Lois Lane will play in the new film, but she is "a linchpin" in the story. Lois also embodies the movie's contemporary spirit, Snyder said.

“It goes back to what I’ve said about Superman and making him really understandable for today," Snyder told the Times. "What’s important to us is making him relevant and real and making him empathetic to today’s audience so that we understand the decisions he makes. That applies to Lois as well. She has to be in the same universe as him [in tone and substance].”

British actor Henry Cavill will portray Superman/Clark Kent in the film, due in theaters in 2012. Kevin Costner and Diane Lane have been cast as Superman's human foster parents, the Kents.


Amy Adams: From 'June Bug' To Lois Lane
We take a look at the eclectic list of roles the Oscar-nominated actress, and new Superman love interest, has played.


Henry Cavill might have been getting a little lonely in Metropolis. Two months after landing the role of Superman in Zack Snyder's reboot of the superhero franchise, the 27-year-old actor still hadn't found out who'd become his Lois Lane.

The answer arrived on Sunday: Amy Adams will be play the Daily Planet reporter and Superman love interest. In a statement, Snyder called Adams "one of the most versatile and respected actresses in films today." That's hardly an overstatement: The 36-year-old star has performed in indies and blockbusters, musicals and animated fare, solemn dramas and bawdy comedies. Along the way she's managed to earn three Oscar nominations, the latest for her supporting turn last year in "The Fighter."

A former Hooters waitress, Adams made her debut in 1999's "Drop Dead Gorgeous" as a dim and cheerful beauty-pageant contestant. Supporting roles on the big and small screen followed, but her next step up the Hollywood food chain didn't arrive until Steven Spielberg cast her as Leonardo DiCaprio's love interest in 2002's "Catch Me If You Can." While things were undoubtedly going well for the actress, she then took a step back from the spotlight over the next few years and only fully resurfaced in very unlikely fashion.

"June Bug," a sort of "Meet the Parents" for the art-house crowd that starred Adams as a wide-eyed gal named Ashley who's days away from giving birth and seemingly miles away from planet earth, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005. The performance won her a special jury prize for acting — and a year later she earned her first Oscar nod for the part. The decision to avoid mainstream fare turned out to be just what Adams' career needed.

"If you love the project, you love the project, and you could be making millions of dollars and have millions of dollars to spend or no money to spend and making no money," Adams told us at the time. "But it's about the script and it's about the people and it's about the story."

From there she began mixing studio pictures ("Talladega Nights") with indie roles ("Sunshine Cleaning"), and ended up wowing critics and audiences in "Enchanted," a film that managed to breathe new life into movie musicals while at the same time paying deep respect to the genre. There was also a short but satisfying arc on "The Office" as Jim Halpert's (John Krasinski) handbag-slinging girlfriend. By the start of 2009, Adams would earn her second Oscar nod — this one for playing a 1960s-era nun in "Doubt" — and yet she couldn't quite get used to the idea that she was indeed a movie star.

"You see yourself onscreen, or you see pictures of yourself, and it can get really heady. I don't think human beings are supposed to look at themselves that much," she said in a 2009 Allure interview, adding that she used to think of herself as "homely" and "painfully small, short, with too much blue eye shadow because I thought, 'It matches my eyes, so why not?' "

Perhaps by now, following her third Oscar honor, she's more comfortable with the notion of celebrity. Hopefully. Because her star is about to rise to a whole new level. There's her turn as Jason Segel's girlfriend in "The Muppets," set to premiere later this year, and she wrapped production last year on "On the Road" opposite Kristen Stewart. In addition, she's attached to play Janis Joplin in a big-screen biopic. But none of that will compare to the exposure the new "Superman" movie will bring her when it premieres in December 2012. Snyder, for one, couldn't be happier with the choice.

"Amy has the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois," he said. "[S]mart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful."

What's your favorite Amy Adams performance? Tell us in the comments.




Amy Adams to play Lois Lane in new Superman film
Amy Adams, the three-time Oscar nominee, has been cast as Lois Lane in the new Superman movie.
Amy Adams is Lois Lane in new Superman alongside British actor Henry Cavill
Amy Adams will star opposite British actor Henry Cavill Photo: GETTY


Adams, 36, will star opposite British actor Henry Cavill, 27, who will play the Man of Steel.

"There was a big, giant search for Lois," director Zack Snyder told the Los Angeles Times. "We did a lot of auditioning, but we had this meeting with Amy Adams and after that I just felt she was perfect for it."

Adams was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress this year for her role as Charlene Fleming in boxing drama The Fighter.

She was also nominated in the same category for her role as a young nun in Doubt, and for the 2005 film June bug.

Other credits include the 2007 Disney hit Enchanted and Julie & Julia in 2009.

The new film, Superman: Man of Steel, due for release in 2012, will be the sixth big screen instalment in the series.

Lois Lane has previously been played by Margot Kidder and Kate Bosworth.

Several big Hollywood stars were said to have been interested in taking on the role this time.

Kevin Costner and Diane Lane will play Superman's adoptive parents.

Cavill previously screen-tested to play the Man of Steel in the 2006 movie Superman Returns and was also considered for Batman and James Bond.



Amy Adams cast as Lois Lane in "Superman"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Amy Adams will play Lois Lane in the upcoming Superman reboot, filling iconic shoes worn at various times by Noel Neill, Margot Kidder, Teri Hatcher and Kate Bosworth.

She will play the enterprising Daily Planet journalist and key love interest opposite British actor Henry Cavill, who was previously cast as Superman/Clark Kent. Diane Lane and Kevin Costner will play his adoptive parents.

Zack Snyder ("Sucker Punch") will direct the Warner Bros. project, which is set for a December 2012 release.

"Second only to Superman himself, the question of who will play Lois Lane is arguably what fans have been most curious about," Snyder said in a statement Sunday. "So we are excited to announce the casting of Amy Adams, one of the most versatile and respected actresses in films today. Amy has the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful."

Adams received an Oscar nomination this year for her supporting role in "The Fighter."

Neill played Lois Lane in the 1950s TV series starring George Reeves, while Kidder brought the role to the big screen in the Christopher Reeves movies. More recently, Hatcher played Lane in the TV series "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," while Bosworth took over in the 2006 feature "Superman Returns."






Amy Adams to play Lois Lane in new Superman movie





Amy Adams has landed the iconic role of journalist Lois Lane in the upcoming Superman reboot from “Sucker Punch” director Zack Snyder.

“Amy has the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful,” Snyder said in a statement.

Adams, recently an Oscar nominee for “The Fighter,” joins Henry Cavill as Superman and Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as Clark Kent’s parents.

“Superman: Man of Steel” is set for a December 2012 release.

The superhero’s love interest has been played on the big screen by Margot Kidder (1978’s “Superman”) and Kate Bosworth (2006’s “Superman Returns”) and on television by Teri Hatcher (“Lois and Clark”) and Erica Durance (“Smallville”).



Amy Adams Cast as Lois Lane in New Superman Movie

Amy Adams has been cast as Lois Lane in the coming “Superman” reboot.

Amy Adams has been cast as Lois Lane in Zack Snyder’s coming reboot of the “Superman” franchise.

Adams, 36, has starred in such movies as “Enchanted,” “Doubt,” and “Junebug.” She received an Oscar nomination this year for her role in “The Fighter.”

Superman will be played by 27-year-old actor Henry Cavill (“The Tudors”).

Snyder’s new movie, “Sucker Punch,” finished second at this weekend’s box office.

The Superman movie, due out from Warner Bros., is set for a December 2012 release.

What do you think of the casting? Are Cavill and Adams a good match? Leave your thoughts in the comments.



Amy Adams is the new Lois Lane

Amy Adams at the Golden Globes, Jan. 16, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
She's tough, smart and enterprising and she's not afraid to match wits with the Man of Steel. She's Lois Lane, and Amy Adams has been cast to play her in director Zach Snyder's new Superman film.

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"Second only to Superman himself, the question of who will play Lois Lane is arguably what fans have been most curious about," Snyder said in a statement Sunday, via the Hollywood Reporter. "So we are excited to announce the casting of Amy Adams, one of the most versatile and respected actresses in films today."

Adams recently was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in "The Fighter." She joins a cast featuring Henry Cavill as Superman, Diane Lane as Martha Kent and Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent.

Margot Kidder played Lois Lane in four Superman films in the 1970s and 1980s and Kate Bosworth played Lane in Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns" in 2007. Phyllis Coates played Lane in the 1951 film "Superman and the Mole-Men."

Snyder's current film is the critically-savaged "Sucker Punch."




Amy Adams cast as Lois Lane in new Superman movie

Amy Adams seems to be Hollywood’s current It girl.

With Academy Awards nominations left and right, Adams can add another feather to her cap as it was just announceed that she will join the cast of Superman: Man of Steel as Clark Kent-slash-Superman’s love interest, Lois Lane.

As director Zack Snyder described to EW.com, Adams “has the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful.”

He also mentioned that the search for the new Lois Lane was a long, complicated road because the role, to him, was just as important as the Man of Steel himself.

Adams does seem to have that certain spunk that makes Lois Lane, well, Lois Lane.

Her casting is more reminiscent of the role as portrayed by Margot Kidder of the original Superman movies. Her addition to the cast also seems to shed some light in the direction that production is going to take with this current reboot.

Adams co-stars in the movie include veteran actors Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. And cast as Superman is hunky actor, Henry Cavill of The Tudors fame.

Need more of an incentive to see this movie? It’s being produced by Christopher Nolan. Yes, THE Christopher Nolan.

But, moviegoers will still have to wait awhile (actually a long while) for the movie to come out as the projected release date is December 2012.



Amy Adams to play Lois Lane in Superman reboot

Amy Adams

Amy Adams is all set to play the iconic role of journalist Lois Lane in Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures upcoming Superman reboot.

Adams has joined Henry Cavill, Diane Lane and Kevin Costner on the production, which will be directed by Zack Snyder.

"Second only to Superman himself, the question of who will play Lois Lane is arguably what fans have been most curious about," the Hollywood Reporter quoted Snyder, as saying in a statement.

"So we are excited to announce the casting of Amy Adams, one of the most versatile and respected actresses in films today. Amy has the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful," he added.

Adams will join Phyllis Coates, Margot Kidder and Kate Bosworth as actresses who have played the iconic Lane.




Amy Adams to take a trip down Lois Lane

Oscar-nominated actor Amy Adams to star opposite Henry Cavill in Zack Snyder's forthcoming Superman film


Amy Adams Oscar-nominated Amy Adams will play Lois Lane in the forthcoming Superman film. Photograph

Amy Adams has been cast as spiky reporter Lois Lane in Zack Snyder's forthcoming Superman film, according to the LA Times. She will star opposite British actor Henry Cavill, who was revealed as the new Man of Steel in January.

Adams, now a three-times Oscar nominee following her best supporting actress nod for David O Russell's The Fighter, was told the news on Sunday following a phone call from Snyder. The director, who will work from a concept developed by the Dark Knight team of Christopher Nolan and screenwriter David S Goyer, said Adams was the perfect choice to play the tough yet sensitive journalist who falls for the man from Krypton.

"There was a big, giant search for Lois," Snyder told the Times. "For us it was a big thing and obviously a really important role. We did a lot of auditioning but we had this meeting with Amy Adams and after that I just felt she was perfect for it."

Snyder said Adams's character would be a "lynchpin" in the latest Superman reimagining, which will attempt to ground the character in a world closer to our own reality than previous iterations.

"It goes back to what I've said about Superman and making him really understandable for today," he said. "What's important to us is making him relevant and real and making him empathetic to today's audience so that we understand the decisions he makes. That applies to Lois as well. She has to be in the same universe as him [in tone and substance]."

Adams, 36, will follow an established big-screen Superman tradition by playing older than her opposite number in the film, tentatively titled Superman: Man of Steel. Cavill is 27, but original Lois Lane Margot Kidder was also four years older than Christopher Reeve in Richard Donner's 1978 Superman, widely considered the best film of the series. Kevin Costner and Diane Lane will play Superman's adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, in the new adaptation.

Adams's appointment was announced with unfortunate timing for Warner Bros as Hollywood blog Deadline published a letter from Joanne Siegel, widow of Superman creator Jerry Siegel, to Warner Bros chief executive Jeffrey Bewkes asking him to personally intervene to bring a long-running legal case to a sensible close. The Siegel estate, along with that of co-creator Joe Schuster, recently successfully asserted its copyright to the character in a move which will force Warner to negotiate before making any future Superman films. However the studio has embarked on a strategy to try and force the family's attorney to resign due to an alleged role as a financial participant in the case.

"My daughter Laura and I, as well as the Schuster estate, have done nothing more than exercise our rights under the Copyright Act," wrote Siegel. "Yet, your company has chosen to sue us and our long-time attorney for protecting our rights.

"On December 1st I turned 93. Unfortunately I am not in the best of health. My cardiologist provided a letter to your attorneys informing them that I suffer from a serious heart condition and that forcing me to go through yet another stressful deposition could put me in danger of a heart attack or stroke. Nonetheless your attorneys are forcing me to endure a second deposition even though I have already undergone a deposition for a full day in this matter. As clearly they would be covering the same ground, their intention is to harass me."

Siegel never sent the letter as she died of heart failure in a Los Angeles hospital on 12 February. The Siegel estate's battle with Warner continues.




That's super! Amy Adams lands coveted Lois Lane role in new Superman movie


Superman has a new leading lady - three-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams.

According to a new media report, the 36-year-old actress got the news today during a phone call with director Zack Snyder.

A string of Hollywood starlets had expressed interest in playing journalist Lois Lane in Superman: Man of Steel, which will also star British actor Henry Cavill of The Tudors fame in the title role.
Dynamic duo: Amy Adams has reportedly been hired to play Lois Lane opposite Henry Cavill in the upcoming Superman: Man of Steel
Dynamic duo: Amy Adams has reportedly been tapped to play Lois Lane opposite Henry Cavill in the upcoming Superman: Man of Steel

Dynamic duo: Amy Adams has reportedly been hired to play Lois Lane opposite Henry Cavill in the upcoming Superman: Man of Steel

Kevin Costner and Diane Lane will play Superman's adoptive parents.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Snyder called Amy from Paris, where he is busy promoting his current movie Sucker Punch.

'There was a big, giant search for Lois,' Snyder told the Times.

He added: 'For us it was a big thing and obviously a really important role.

We did a lot of auditioning but we had this meeting with Amy Adams and a
after that I just felt she was perfect for it.'
Commercial failure: The last movie Superman Returns in 2006 starred Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel and Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane

Commercial failure: The last movie Superman Returns in 2006 starred Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel and Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane

The Enchanted actress is fresh off an Academy Award nomination for her work in The Oscar-winning drama, The Fighter.

Amy played a bartender named Charlene who falls in love with down-but-not-out boxer Micky Ward portrayed by Mark Wahlberg.

The last movie in the Superman series, Superman Returns was released in 2006.

It starred Iowa native Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel and Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, but was considered a commercial failure.

It cost a reported $270 Million dollars to make and earned just $200 Million dollars in the United States.

The new film is a complete re-boot with new actors and a new director.

It is set to be released in December of 2012.





Adams to play Lois Lane in new Superman film
Amy Adams Adams will play Lois when the new Superman film starts filming in August

* British actor lands Superman role
* Snyder to direct Superman movie

US actress Amy Adams has been cast as Lois Lane in the latest Superman film, its producers have confirmed.

Director Zack Snyder said the three-time Oscar nominee has "the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful".

Adams will star alongside Britain's Henry Cavill in the as yet untitled film, set for release in December 2012.

The 36-year-old actress was recently seen in boxing drama The Fighter.

She was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her role but the award went to her co-star Melissa Leo.

In the four Superman films starring Christopher Reeve, Daily Planet reporter Lois was played by Margot Kidder.

Kate Bosworth took over the part when the Man of Steel was revived in 2006 in Superman Returns.

Diane Lane and Kevin Costner have also landed roles in Snyder's film, in which they will play Superman's adoptive father and mother.

Snyder's latest movie Sucker Punch is released in the UK on Friday.




Amy Adams is Snyder's Lois Lane



Amy Adams has won the coveted role of Lois Lane in Zack Snyder's Superman.

The three-time Oscar nominee found out she will play Clark Kent and Superman's love interest (to be portrayed by Tudors actor Henry Cavill) in the rebooted franchise, after receiving a call from the 300 director from Paris, where he is promoting his epic action fantasy, Sucker Punch.

"There was a big, giant search for Lois. We did a lot of auditioning but we had this meeting with Amy Adams and after that I just felt she was perfect for it," Zack told the Los Angeles Times.

The filmmaker didn't divulge details about Lois' role in the upcoming film, but said the character is "a linchpin".

"It goes back to what I've said about Superman and making him really understandable for today," he continued.

"What's important to us is making him relevant and real and making him empathetic to today's audience so that we understand the decisions he makes. That applies to Lois as well. She has to be in the same universe as him [in tone and substance]."

Joining Amy and Henry are Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as Superman's adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent.



Will Amy Adams steal the show as Lois Lane?

Amy.jpgFinding the fresh response in obvious situations has become a specialty for Amy Adams, so if anyone can bring new blood to Lois Lane for a Superman movie, it's Adams. She was robbed of awards for "Enchanted" simply because it was a goofy cartoon/live-action hybrid, but I can't think of a better contemporary performance in a piece of comic escapism. Playing a fairy-tale beauty named Giselle, who tumbles down a well in the magic kingdom of Andalasia and ends up peering out from a manhole in Times Square, Adams held to her insight that (as she told me in 2006) Giselle was "completely open, full of conviction and joy and a humor that would go along with that."

When the L.A. Times' Geoff Boucher broke the news yesterday that Adams would be Lois Lane in Zack Snyder's "Superman: Man of Steel," "Enchanted" was immediately invoked across the Internet as the closest Adams had yet come to a comic-book movie. But Adams has been developing many skills that she can bring to bear on Lois Lane.

Will Snyder's Daily Planet go the "His Girl Friday" route of rapid-fire verbal comedy? Well, in "Junebug," Adams turned an open-faced, openhearted pregnant beauty named into that near-impossibility: a lyrical motor-mouth. Once you got into her rhythms, you realized that everything she said had meaning, including a remark to her aging high-school-sweetheart husband: "God loves you just the way you are. But he loves you too much to let you stay that way."

Will her Lois Lane have Margot Kidder's push, grit and sexuality? Well, Adams was no shrinking violet in "Sunshine Cleaning" and "The Fighter," and way back in that underrated beauty-pageant parody, "Drop Dead Gorgeous" (1999), she played the gal who told a competitor "They're never going to let you perform naked. I asked!"

Will Lois simply be Superman/Clark Kent's true love? In Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can," she played the candy-striper who won the heart of Leonardo DiCaprio's hustler-hero. She was endearingly ardent and focused. When he tried to make a clean breast of things and said, "I'm not a lawyer or a Harvard graduate or a Lutheran; I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was 16," Brenda simply responded, "Frank, Frank - you're not a Lutheran?"

Playing an idealistic nun in "Doubt" and a striving food blogger in "Julie & Julia," Adams (in my minority opinion) gave the most subtle, exact and feeling performance in either movie. And her crime-scene-cleanup gal in "Sunshine Cleaning" was just as scrappy, passionate and compassionate (if not as celebrated) as her wily barmaid in "The Fighter," Adams has shown she can do anything. She's not perfect: she stumbled badly in the cliched rom-com "Leap Year." Let's hope Snyder's Lois Lane gives Adams room to soar up, up and away.



Is the Next Superman Film Getting It Right? Amy Adams Lands Lois Lane Role


Like many kids who grew up in the ’80s, the Christopher Reeves Superman movies were staple viewing in my household. Unlike the Batman I was familiar with (a la Adam West), Reeves’ Superman was complex, the storytelling was epic and the impact longstanding in regards to my childhood. In other words, Superman was probably the first superhero I actually took seriously.

Now, I’m not a comic book geek. But I do love a good remake. I’m not one of those geeks who clings to the originals if I can help it, and I really enjoy seeing movies redone and reinterpreted, even if they’re bad. Like the last Superman. Nothing was more disappointing, to me, in that particular film than the portrayal of Lois Lane. Lois was a hugely positive role model to me in those first movies, and I loved how Margot Kidder wasn’t typically Hollywood pretty, but had her own fierce beauty and absolute grit. Kate Bosworth, while a very lovely woman, was just a pretty face who really didn’t bring anything new to the franchise other than, well, a super baby. And even she looked bored by her performance.

Anyway, I’ve been listening as the casting process has gone down for this newest Superman reboot. Henry Cavill, in my mind, was a rather inspired choice. Having watched him on The Tudors, his rather unearthly good looks and acting chops make him a great choice. Okay, so Brandon Routh wasn’t that bad, just perhaps lacking that extra something. Cavill, the Brit, I believe could definitely provide that.

But what about Lois? I mentioned before, Bosworth just didn’t cut it. But holy cow did I just do a double take when I read that Amy Adams has been cast in the iconic role. I admit, I absolutely adore Amy Adams. She’s a stunningly versatile actress that plays everything from tough to tender, charming to haunting, and I believe she can do Lois real justice. There’s no doubt that Amy is a beautiful woman, but like Kidder she doesn’t fall into typical Hollywood conventions.

Now I’m just itching to find out what Amy Adams will look like through Zach Snyder’s warped and wonderful lens…






Fast Track: Amy Adams is the new Lois Lane
Amy Adams

The Oscar-nominated actress will play Lois Lane in the upcoming "Superman" movie.

Amy Adams will play Lois Lane in Zack Snyder's "Superman" movie. (Los Angeles Times)

In other Zack Snyder news: Fanboys flocked to "Sucker Punch" this weekend. Everyone else stayed far, far away. (Los Angeles Times)

Hip-hop radio host DJ Megatron was shot dead near his home Sunday morning, according to police. (Huffington Post)

Simon Cowell's "X Factor" auditions swing through L.A. -- finally, a creative outlet for Angelenos! (Los Angeles Times)

Attention, ladies: Mel Gibson went out clubbing in Hollywood on Saturday night. (TMZ)

Katy Perry is going the "Avatar" route with her new music video. (Idolator)

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy both turned 80 last week. (Screenrant)

You may not ever get a chance to read it, so here are a few spoilers from what is thought to be the unpublished (and unfinished) fourth novel in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. (Hollywood Reporter)

Ever seen a picture of a Piranhaconda? Want to? (Entertainment Weekly)

It sounds as if Charlie Sheen's tour isn't quite the sensation it seemed to be at first. (Deadline)

Will Ferrell has hinted that his "Office" gig could go on longer than the four episodes at the end of this season. (New York Daily News)

According to Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino's next movie isn't a western, it's a southern. (Movieline)