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Originally Posted by tlasjr

There was ni Superman five. As it was Im surprised the universe didnt collapse in on itself when they put John Cryer in a superhero movie.
I love Supernan\Doomsday. probably helps that I never read the book.
Tim Burton is why Superman Returns failed, Burton, Cage and smith had guaranteed contracts snd got millions. All the expenses of which got added to the project total and finally the tally for superman returns. By itself it made $100+ in profit but with the Burton baggage needed to make $500 milliion ti break even.

To hear Kevin Smith tell it he got paid to write a script treatment. Which isn't odd for a movie in development. But that Tim Burton had a contract clause that guaranteed him his director's fee (10 mil) whether the movie was made or not. Which was odd. I also heard that Superman Returns had a budget of about 250 million due to WB rolling all the pre-production costs (like Burton getting paid 10 million for basically nothing) into the budget.