There were a lot of things wrong with the last Superman movie — but the filmmakers did manage to find an actor with an uncanny resemblance to the late Christopher Reeve. Was casting Brandon Routh a good thing? Does that honor Reeve’s memory?

Not necessarily, said Reeve’s son Matthew, during a recent fundraising event called “A Magical Evening” to benefit the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation in New York. Matthew, along with his sister Alexandra and younger brother Will, do a lot of work to honor the actor we all think of as the Superman by aiding fundraising efforts to cure paralysis. Read more…

Straight from the “gotta have it” file, DC Direct has unveiled the latest in their line of celebrity superhero statues, this time with a 12-inch tall commemorative statue of Christopher Reeve as Superman. According to DC Direct, the statue “strikes an iconic pose from the classic 1978 feature film Superman – the movie that made the world believe ‘a man could fly’ and turned the actor into a star.”

The statue is set to his stores in May of next year — check out a full image of the nerd-droll-inducing item after the jump! Read more…