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'Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story' coming to HBO, Max

Nov. 26 (UPI) — Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is coming to HBO and Max.

HBO announced in a press release Tuesday that the documentary film about late Superman actor Christopher Reeve will premiere Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. EST and also stream on Max.

Super/Man is directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui. The film is presented by DC Studios in association with HBO Documentary Films, CNN Films, Words+Pictures, And a Passion Pictures, and Misfits Entertainment Production.

Reeve, who died at age 52 in 2004, was best-known for playing Clark Kent, aka Superman, in the Superman films released between 1978 and 1987. After the actor was paralyzed from the neck down in a near-fatal horseback riding accident in 1995, he became an advocate for spinal injury research.

"Following a life-altering accident, Christopher Reeve persevered, by using his fame to speak of hope and to change our perception of paralysis, all while remaining a dedicated activist, actor and filmmaker, devoted dad, and loving husband to Dana Reeve, the beating heart of the family," an official synopsis reads.

The film "uses Reeve's own words, as well as intimate input from his closest family members and friends, to paint a rich, nuanced portrait of a man who refused to be defined by his physicality and who proved that you don't need tights and a cape to be a hero."

Reeve's children Matthew Reeve, Alexandra Reeve Givens and Will Reeve, brother Kevin Johnson, his first wife, Gae Exton, and Hollywood friends Susan Sarandon, Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels and Whoopi Goldberg give interviews.

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and screened in theaters in September.

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9-year-old boy finds 60,000-year-old axe at Shoreham Beach in England

A young boy from England found a shiny item on a beach that turned out to be a "rare" ancient item dating back to the late Middle Paleolithic era.

The boy — identified by Worthing Museum as Ben Witten, now 9 years old — discovered a shiny rock at Shoreham Beach in Sussex.

"I was looking around and I saw this shiny flint rock. I just thought it looked different [from] all the other different pebbles and stones," he told the BBC.

Over the next few years, Witten said he kept the shiny rock in his room.

He told the BBC he was constantly "losing it and finding it."

A trip to Worthing Museum changed everything for the boy.

While exploring exhibits at the museum, he stopped by the Stone Age exhibition and noticed similarities to the item that he had found, according to the BBC.

This led him to report his finding to the museum — where many more details were uncovered about the item that he had unearthed.

The item turned out to be a hand axe from the late Middle Paleolithic period, an era dating back between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago, according to a Nov. 21 Facebook post by Worthing Museum.

The museum said that the item was "almost certainly made by a Neanderthal."

"We regularly have visitors bring in their finds from the local area. Mostly these are other flint tools or Roman artifacts, but this is by far the oldest item shown to myself in 10-plus years," James Sainsbury, curator of archaeology at Worthing Museum, told Fox News Digital.

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'Moana 2' tops North American weekend box office with $135.5M

Dec. 1 (UPI) — Animated adventure Moana 2 is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $135.5 million in receipts this weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

The Hollywood Reporter said the long-awaited sequel, which earned $221 million since Thanksgiving Eve on Wednesday, had the biggest five-day debut in history and the best-ever Thanksgiving holiday weekend haul.

The previous five-day record-holder was 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie with $204.6 million.

Coming in at No. 2 is Wicked with $80 million, followed by Gladiator II at No. 3 with $30.7 million, Red One at No. 4 with $12.9 million and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at No. 5 with $3.3 million.

Rounding out the top tier are Bonhoeffer at No. 6 with $2.4 million, Venom: The Last Dance at No. 7 with $2.4 million, Heretic at No. 8 with $960,000, The Wild Robot at No. 9 with $700,000 and A Real Pain at No. 10 with $670,000.

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Man compensated $2.53 after unwrapping smooth Mars bar

A British man was awarded $2.53 in compensation from Mars Wrigley U.K. after he unwrapped a Mars bar — known as a Milky Way in the United States — and found it was missing its signature ripple.

Harry Seager, 34, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, posted a photo of his unusually smooth candy bar to the Dull Men's Club group on Facebook, and the post quickly went viral, garnering hundreds of shares and thousands of comments.

"It tasted the same," Seager told The Guardian. "It just was a lot thinner on top that's all — not quite as thick."

Seager, who bought the Mars bar from an Oxfordshire gas station while en route to a classic car show in Birmingham, reached out to the company the next day.

Seager said he wasn't seeking any compensation, but he was curious about what had caused the Mars bar's smoothness and wanted to inform the company in case there was a production problem that hadn't been caught.

Mars Wrigley U.K. did not offer Seager an explanation, but did award him a £2 voucher — worth $2.53 in U.S. currency.

"The only reason I emailed [Mars] was because I was interested in what might have caused it to happen. That is all I wanted to know and they kept side-lining that question," Seager told the BBC. "I think £2 is great, it will be two free Mars bars. Maybe they could have sent me more but I'm not being ungrateful. I think it's amazing after everything that's happened that I got the £2 voucher."

Commenters on the post who are familiar with the candy-making process said the bar most likely simply missed being blown by air in a machine called an enrober. The blowing process is what causes the chocolate on top to swirl.

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson kills gang leader, escapes prison in 'Kraven the Hunter'

Dec. 2 (UPI) — Sony Pictures is previewing the beginning of Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Within the film's first eight minutes, Kraven (Taylor-Johnson) enters prison, gets into a fight, kills gang leader Seymon Chorney, escapes jail, and fakes his own death.

"The hunter is a myth," Chorney says after Kraven introduces himself as such. "Now you're trapped, hunter. What's your name? Who sent you?"

Kraven shares his name and then proceeds to attack everyone in the room.

"There's an ounce of truth in every myth," he tells Chorney before stabbing him several times.

Taylor-Johnson introduced the clip, which he said was first shared at New York Comic Con.

"It's the holiday season, and have I got a surprise gift for you," he said. "Right here, right now, you get to see the opening scenes of my new film, Kraven the Hunter."

Kraven the Hunter is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The film is part of Sony's Spider-Man Universe.

Russell Crowe, Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger, Alessandro Nivola and Christopher Abbott also star. The movie opens in theaters Dec. 13.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson: awards, action roles and red carpets

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German man attempts to break record for living underwater

A 59-year-old German man is more than 60 days into his attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent living in an underwater fixed habitat.

Rüdiger Koch, an aerospace engineer, has been living and working for two months in an underwater capsule off the coast of Puerto Lindo, Panama, in the Caribbean Sea.

Koch's living space measures about 322 square feet and features a portable toilet, a TV, a computer, a bed, a stationary bike, solar power, satellite Internet and multiple fans.

He said the on-land luxury he misses the most is a shower.

"It's not particularly hard. I don't feel like I'm suffering down here at all, although the hardest part is that sometimes I want to go diving," he told CBS News.

He began his record attempt on Sept. 26 and plans to emerge Jan. 24, after spending 120 days underwater.

The current record for the longest time spent living in an underwater fixed habitat stands at 100 days and was set by Joseph Dituri off the Florida coast in 2023.

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