With so much buzz surrounding Zack Snyder's upcoming "Man of Steel," it's almost easy to forget director Bryan Singer's 2006 reboot "Superman Returns." Singer himself admits that his film didn't exactly soar at the box office.

"I know it’s hard to blame the time, but there’s a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don’t think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer," he tells VoicesFromKrypton.com of the film, which starred Brandon Routh in the title role.

"What I had noticed is that there weren’t a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address," he says.

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Author and activist Greg Mortenson is in the headlines for his writing, but not for the right reasons.

Mortenson is defending his 2006 book "Three Cups of Tea" amid allegations that key stories in it are false, including his supposed 1996 kidnapping near the Afghan-Pakistani border.

The debate over whether Mortenson's tale is truth or fiction brings to mind some literary hoaxes that took the publishing and media industries by storm:

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"This is the most important show to me since my mom passed," Kanye West revealed, as a hush fell over the capacity crowd on closing night of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

In the middle of a powerful hits-filled set that also featured cuts off his current album, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy," the 33-year-old hip-hop superstar suddenly had a confessional moment.

"When I made the album, I was in a really dark place in my life...losing everything that was dear to me," he told the audience from center stage. "To still love me after everything you've seen me say on TV...to still have fans...I really appreciate you all tonight, because I'm only trying to say and do what's right."

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If you've been disappointed with the movies M. Night Shyamalan has turned out ever since his 1999 blockbuster "The Sixth Sense," you're not alone. Three former fans have launched a campaign to send the Razzie winner back to film school.

According to PopEater, author/copywriter Chris Baker and his two pals are trying to raise $150,000 to help Shyamalan become a better filmmaker. Baker got the idea when he saw a trailer for "Devil" last year and the audience laughed at the phrase "From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan."

After learning that Shyamalan was planning to make the futuristic thriller "1000 A.E." with Will and Jaden Smith, Baker and his buddies launched M. Night School, a website where fellow concerned fans can donate funds to help the writer/director finesse his craft.

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When “Alien” director Ridley Scott announced that he’d be doing a movie based on Monopoly, members of the sketch comedy group Half Day Today shook their heads. First Liam Neeson in “Battleship,” now another film based on a classic board game?

“Our goal was to get a trailer out before the studio [released] theirs,” director Matthew Stubstad said. “We wanted to make fun of how Hollywood is kind of grabbing anything they can to make a movie out of it.”

So the same creative minds that brought us the “Oregon Trail” trailer and the Tiger Woods Voicemail Slow Jam produced a trailer for the “Monopoly” movie. Except this one stars Half Day Today actors Al LeVine and Evan Bregman, and is featured on FunnyOrDie.com instead of on the big screen.

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Who was that masked man? It could be Ryan Gosling, now that the actor is in talks to play the title role in "The Lone Ranger."

According to The Wrap, Gosling is being eyed to join director Gore Verbinski's ("The Pirates of the Caribbean") reboot about the fictional masked Texas Ranger, his white stallion and his sidekick Tonto, to be played by Johnny Depp.

Originally a 1930s radio series, "The Lone Ranger" spawned several films and a popular TV series that ran from 1949-1957.

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"Seinfeld" alum Julia Louis-Dreyfus is getting into politics. The Emmy-winning actress will star as the vice president of the United States in HBO's upcoming comedy series "Veep."

According to Deadline, Louis-Dreyfus will play Selina Meyer, a former senator who is elected vice president and discovers that the gig isn't quite what she was expecting.

The series, which is set "very near the White House," will co-star Anna Chlumsky (who starred in the 1991 Macaulay Culkin drama "My Girl") as Meyer's chief of staff and Tony Hale ("Arrested Development") as her right-hand man.

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[Editor's Note: If you haven't seen the latest episode of "The Killing," beware -- there are plenty of spoilers below!]

Gold stars, high fives and double rainbows for you amateur sleuths out there who speculated that Rosie wasn't the girl in the cell phone video that closed last week’s episode.

Despite their bad boy exteriors – I laughed just typing that – Jasper and Kris cracked during questioning and confessed that it was actually Sterling in the video, dressed in Rosie’s Halloween costume.

When confronted, Sterling blamed the copious amount of blood at the scene on savage nosebleeds and said sex with the boys was consensual. She also told Linden that Rosie left the dance early and had changed since her breakup with Jasper – she’d been lying to her parents, cutting class and occasionally disappearing on a city bus to an unknown destination. Sterling’s theory was that Rosie had met someone she couldn’t tell anyone about.

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Former “Prison Break” actor Lane Garrison found himself locked up in real life after he was convicted of vehicular manslaughter in 2007.

Garrison opened up on the “Today” show Monday about what life was like behind bars.

“You have to trust that one of these guys, when you close your eyes, isn’t just going to wake up in the middle of the night, pull you off your rack and beat you with a lock or stab you,” Garrison, who was shuffled between eight prisons during his sentence, recalled.

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Following a heated war of words, Kings of Leon and Ryan Murphy are back in tune now that the band has accepted the "Glee" creator's public apology.

"We don't hold grudges," frontman Caleb Followill tells Rolling Stone.

As Marquee reported in January, Murphy lashed out at the music group for refusing to let his cast sing "Use Somebody" on the show.

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