So we like to think we're pretty on top of all your Batman and Superman movie news, like when we wrote about the billboard in "I Am Legend." There's nothing we're mose psyched about than "The Dark Knight" for instance but as far as we know those long abandoned plans to make a Superman/Batman flick died around the time Chris Nolan signed on to the latter franchise.

But here's the thing: apparently a whole lot of you are looking for "Batman Vs. Superman" news today. Our crack research team just informed me that a rather old story of ours about the two superheroes is playing like gangbusters today and I'll be quite honest...I don't know why. As far as we know, there's no news to report. If anything, maybe some "Justice League" news might break but "Batman Vs. Superman"? Why aren't you all searching for news on the "Superman" movie Kevin Smith wrote? I'm at a loss.

Anyone?

Sometime around the turn of this century, movie geeks began buzzing over a proposed showdown between the two biggest icons in comic book history. Now, a new movie poster is advertising 2009 as the release date for the long-awaited "Batman vs. Superman," and the flick is finally coming to a theater near you.

Well, sort of.

"That was Akiva," laughed "I Am Legend" director Francis Lawrence this weekend, referring to a geeky sight gag created by his writer Akiva Goldsman. "It's very funny."

In "Legend," Will Smith's character is one of the few humans left alive in 2012, following a massive 2009 virus attack. As he wanders the abandoned, filth-ridden streets of Manhattan, the world is frozen in time from the moment that the rabies-like disease hit. When "Legend" hits theaters December 14th, eagle-eyed viewers will be able to spot all sorts of futuristic billboards, including one that features the iconic symbols of Batman and Superman. Read more...