The 33-year-old is an excellent character actor – but can the kid from About a Boy ever really be a match for Superman? Or will it be like when Jesse Eisenberg was miscast in the same role in Dawn of Justice?

Richard Donner’s 1978 event movie brought Hollywood grandeur, a great John Williams score and a gentlemanly hero quite unlike any other

Any company with characters like Batman and Wonder Woman should be laughing all the way to the bank. So why are DC and its owner Warner Bros struggling with so many projects?

Dwayne Johnson voices Superman’s best friend in a mirthless mess of an animated superhero spin-off