Superman: Ultimate Collector's Edition (14 DVD) [£29.99 or less@CDWOW]

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Beaut of a boxset! Link here. Region 1 DVD set though.

Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus, Alternative Ending, Scene Selection, Theatrical Trailer, Making Of Feature, Featurette

Review:

This long awaited 14-disc collector’s set packages together the recently announced Superman Returns (2-Disc Special Edition), all of the Christopher Reeve Superman outings including Superman: The Movie (Four-Disc Special Edition), Superman II (Two-Disc Special Edition), Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, Superman III (Deluxe Edition), Superman IV (Deluxe Edition), the previously released documentary Look, Up in the Sky!: The Amazing Story of Superman, and exclusive to the collection You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman, a feature length documentary, plus Bryan Singer's Journals Extended Edition - the video journals chronicling the making of Superman Returns.

The 14-disc set will be packaged in a collectible keepsake tin which is shelf ready and holds the set inside lenticular packaging, along with a reproduction of the comic book Superman issue #7, a Superman overview booklet and a mail-in offer for five Superman theatrical movie posters.

Superman: The Movie: Four-Disc Special Edition (1978/2001)
A box-office smash, an Academy Award winner and a fan favourite since it first flew into theatres in December 1978, Superman: The Movie assembles an "A List" cast and creative contingent. At its heart is Christopher Reeve's intelligent, affectionate portrayal of a most human Man of Steel.

The movie's legacy was amplified when director Richard Donner revisited this beloved adventure 22 years later and integrated eight minutes into the film. Enjoy more footage of the Krypton Council, a glimpse of stars of prior Superman incarnations, more of Jor-El underscoring his son's purpose on Earth and an extended sequence inside Lex Luthor's gauntlet of doom.

Special Features:

Disc One:

* Original 1978 theatrical version with soundtrack in Dolby Digital 5.1
* Commentary by producer Pierre Spengler and executive producer Ilya Salkind
* Theatrical trailers
* TV spot
* Languages: English & French
* Subtitles: English, French & Spanish (feature film only)

Disc Two:

* 2000 expanded edition movie with commentary by director Richard Donner and creative consultant Tom Mankiewicz
* Music-only audio track
* Subtitles: English, French, Spanish & Portuguese

Disc Three:

* Three documentaries:
o Taking Flight: The Development of Superman
o Making Superman: Filming the Legend
o The Magic Behind the Cape
* Restored scenes
* Screen tests
* Audio-only bonus: additional music cues

Disc Four:

* Vintage TV special The Making of Superman: The Movie
* 1951 Movie Superman and the Mole-Men, starring George Reeves
* Nine Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons mastered from superior vault elements:
o Oscar nominee Superman
o The Mechanical Monsters
o Billion Dollar Limited
o The Arctic Giant
o The Bulleteers
o The Magnetic Telescope
o Electric Earthquake
o Volcano
o Terror on the Midway

Superman II: Two-Disc Special Edition (1980)

Unwittingly released from Phantom Zone imprisonment, three super-powered Kryptonian criminals (Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas and Jack O'Halloran) plan to enslave Earth - just when Superman (Christopher Reeve) decides to show a more romantic side to Lois Lane (Margot Kidder). Gene Hackman (as Lex Luthor) also returns from the first film with a top supporting cast, witty Richard Lester direction and visuals that astound and delight.

Special Features:

Disc One:

* Movie with commentary by executive producer Ilya Salkind and producer Pierre Spengler
* Soundtrack in Dolby Digital 5.1
* Theatrical trailer
* Languages: English & French
* Subtitles: English, French & Spanish (feature film only)

Disc Two:

* Vintage TV specials The Making of Superman II and Superman 50th Anniversary
* New featurette First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series
* Eight Famous Studios Superman cartoons mastered from superior vault elements:
o Japoteurs
o Showdown
o Eleventh Hour
o Destruction, Inc.
o The Mummy Strikes
o Jungle Drums
o The Underground World
o Secret Agent

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Superman II will delight fans who, for years, have been imploring Warner Home Video via voluminous numbers of petitions, letters, phone calls and e-mails to release the Donner cut.

In fact, Donner had already shot most of the Superman II footage during Superman: The Movie. But as production on the sequel continued, creative differences between the director and the film's producers became irreconcilable and Donner left the project. Although Richard Lester was hired to finish production, he chose to make major changes to the film, leaving only vestiges of Donner's original vision and concepts in the version of Superman II that was ultimately released to theaters.

Now, nearly thirty years later, Warner Home Video is honoured to grant the wishes of countless Superman fans. With this DVD release, Richard Donner has become the first director in history to be able to complete a film he left during production with nearly all his footage "in the can." Adding back a substantial amount of that unused footage, the director has seen his original vision restored and brought to fruition.

Most notably, the "Donner cut" restores the Marlon Brando role, filmed for, but not included in the final theatrical release version of Superman II. The legendary Brando's performance as Jor-El has finally been restored in key scenes that amplify Superman lore and deepen the profound relationship between father and son.

With so many other changes, large and small, including a variety of Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) schemes to unmask Clark Kent as Superman, this Superman II will prove to be an eye-opening experience and an important addition to film history.

Special Features:

* All new introduction by director Richard Donner
* Commentary by director Richard Donner and creative consultant Tom Mankiewicz
* New featurette Superman II: Restoring the Vision
* Additional scenes
* Subtitles: English, French & Spanish (feature film only)


Superman III: Deluxe Edition (1983)

Meet Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor), a half-witted computer programming wiz. Reeve reprises his role, deepening his character's human side as Clark Kent reunites with old flame Lana Lang (Annette O'Toole) at a Smallville High class reunion. When Superman becomes his own worst enemy after Kryptonite exposure, Reeve plays both roles with dazzling skill.

Special Features:

* Commentary by executive producer Ilya Salkind and producer Pierre Spengler
* Vintage TV special The Making of Superman III
* Additional scenes
* Theatrical trailer
* Languages: English & French Dolby Surround
* Subtitles: English, French & Spanish (feature film only)


Superman IV The Quest For Peace: Deluxe Edition (1987)

Christopher Reeve not only stars as the title hero again but also helped develop the movie's provocative theme: nuclear disarmament. To make the world safe for nuclear arms merchants, Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) creates a new being to challenge the Man of Steel: the radiation-charged Nuclear Man (Mark Pillow).

Special Features:

* Commentary by screenwriter Mark Rosenthal
* Additional scenes
* Theatrical trailer
* Languages: English & French
* Subtitles: English, French & Spanish (feature film only)

Superman Returns: Special Edition (2 Disc Set) (2006)

For five years, Superman (Brandon Routh) has been away from Earth, coaxed into space by a belief that Krypton may still exist. Finding nothing, he comes back to a changed world, not only has terrorism become rampant, but Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) has married, started a family, and won the Pulitzer for her piece "Why the World Doesn’t Need Superman." After a stop in Smallville to see his adopted mother (Eva Marie Saint), Superman is back in Metropolis, and Clark Kent has his old job back at the Daily Planet, with everyone still incredibly oblivious to his alter ego. But where there’s Superman, there's Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey), and he is likely to be planning something dastardly, in this case, using a piece of pilfered kryptonite to grow an entirely new continent that he will control.

Bryan Singer (X-Men 1 and 2), armed with a script by Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty, approaches the red cape with reverence for the lore of the character, and respect for Richard Donner’s Superman (1980) and Richard Lester’s 1980 sequel, films that ushered in the era of the modern superhero film. Singer’s Superman is filled with melancholy, and not so subtly suggests the notion of Superman as a Christ figure, sacrificing himself to save mankind. But there are still laughs, mostly courtesy of Spacey (clearly having a blast) and Parker Posey as his moll, Kitty Kowalski, as well as plenty of gasp-inducing set pieces, including a spectacular and terrifying almost-plane crash and a sinking boat. While modern visual effects have allowed Superman to go to entirely new realms, Singer keeps them from becoming the film’s raison d'être, thus keeping the Man of Steel’s gigantic heart intact, heavy though it may be.

Special Features:

* Deleted Scenes
* Requiem For Krypton: Making Superman Returns - a comprehensive 3 hour documentary

Basq

Very nice boxset.. saw it in Madrid last Summer for €45 and wish I bought it!

But bought the The Christopher Reeve Collection when it was about €20 at Amazon last year.