Whooosh!

The publicity and hype machine has "officially" started in earnest for Superman Returns. The anticipated relaunch of the film franchise may not happen until June 30th 2006, but talk of the film and everyone involved seems to be everywhere of late, including my mailbox...

The February 2006 issue of Premiere arrived with a photo of stars Brandon Routh and back to blonde bombshell Kate Bosworth on the cover. The 9 page article by Tim Swanson, was written right in the middle of principle photography, and gives you a pretty good idea of how things were going. The spread also includes a time line of all things Superman and some "new" photos of Routh as The Man Of Steel, Bosworth as Lois Lane, Kevin Spacey as arch villain Lex Luthor, and Parker Posey as Luthor's girlfriend Kitty.

Co-star Kal Penn gave an interview to MTV News about his role and the film in general on December 15th.

Wizard Magazine # 178 (hitting stores today) has what the website calls "a monster-sized preview" of the film--devoting 28 pages of space and filled with "exclusives"

The Associated Press filed a story last week that Routh handed over the Olympic torch to Joe Torre, manager of Baseball's New York Yankees, as part of its relay to the upcoming winter games in Torino Italy.

And this is just the beginning folks...We still have some six months to go before the film's release date.