Warner Brothers has bumped up the release of "Superman Returns" by two days.

Instead of taking flight on movie screens everywhere on Friday, June 30, Bryan Singer's reboot of the superhero franchise will now open on Wednesday, June 28, extending the potential franchise pic's release through the protracted July 4th weekend.

"We were always considering this an option," Dan Fellman, WB's president of domestic distribution tells Variety. "I'm glad that we are in position to do it and take advantage of the summer holiday playtime."

The trade paper reports that the studio had long hoped to have "Superman Returns," which stars Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey and newcomer Brandon Routh, in theaters by the Wednesday, but there had been some internal questions regarding the completion of prints, particularly those for the movie's IMAX run.

Now, though, "Superman Returns" is set up for an open playing field from the end of June through the July 4th holiday, which falls on a Tuesday. For that period, "Superman" will face only counterprogramming from Fox's "The Devil Wears Prada."

More competition is expected on July 7th with the release of Sony's "Little Man," as well as "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" from Disney.

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Are you thinking what I'm thinking people? Using the 4th July holiday as an excuse cause their running scared over the release of Pirates? This is awesome!

Brentwood, CA :: Actor couple Harrison Ford, 63, and Calista Flockhart, 41, showed their admiration for our fighting men and women by walking at the Memorial Day parade this past Sunday. Calista's five-year-old son Liam came along for at the festivities.

Calista is making her return to primetime in one-hour drama Brothers And Sisters, the story of the trials and tribulations of a group of grown siblings. This is Calista's first TV series since the end of Ally McBeal four years ago. Calista plays Kitty Walker, a former radio personality whose success just landed her a job as a TV pundit. Brothers And Sisters is coming Sundays this fall @ 10PM on ABC.

The website for PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST is now online. The film, which stars Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgård and Bill Nighy is in cinemas from July 7th.

Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Gore Verbinski from a screenplay written by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, Captain Jack sets sail on an all new adventure – filled with more intrigue, more spectacular special effects and more comedy.

The site takes you on a journey to seven exotic locations from the film. As you explore each location, interactive figures and objects reveal further secrets about the movie, including key items to be “plundered” and collected in order to face the formidable Davy Jones and unlock the mysterious Dead Man’s Chest, which contains unique digital prizes! Interactive features in each location also take you to downloadable items such as desktop wallpapers and buddy icons, as well as e-cards, posters and digital trading cards. You can also view the trailer and check out the gallery of new movie stills, production photos and concept art.

To visit the new site go here http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/pirates

Maybe it was a joke. Or perhaps Jennifer Aniston was having a dig at her ex-hubby, Brad Pitt and his new flame, Angelina Jolie.

Aniston was sitting at a press conference in Los Angeles to promote her new comedy, The Break-Up, when a reporter asked if she was interested in using her celebrity to tackle any of the world's important issues.

Pitt and Jolie, in between giving birth to daughter Shiloh Nouvel, have been vocal about Africa, AIDS and refugees.

So, was Aniston interested in any global issues? How about the war in Iraq or global warming?

"No," Aniston replied. "I'm not interested in any of that."

"I like to just focus on me and my tabloid career."

Her deadpan answer, dripping with sarcasm, scored plenty of laughs.

Aniston went on to say she had plenty of interests, but opted not to reveal them at the press conference.

This poster girl of the tabloids does not give up too much about herself these days, something Australian journalists will learn when she arrives next week in Sydney to promote The Break-Up.

"I have a lot of other interests," Aniston, 37, said defensively. "But, I don't need to tell you all my interests, but there's a lot."

One campaign she probably would not mind leading is a ban on tabloids.

They ran stories about troubles in her marriage to Pitt for months before the star couple officially announced on January 7 last year that they were separating after more than four years of marriage.

The split then sent the tabloids into another frenzy as they chronicled Pitt's relationship with his Mr and Mrs Smith co-star, Jolie, and Aniston's apparent romance with Vince Vaughan, her co-star in The Break-Up.

Which hunky footballer has secretly visited surgeons to get his tackle enlarged? Hes always been shy in the dressing rooms because of his undersized appendage. So he had a spectacularly painful operation, which left him bed-ridden for two weeks. He might not be happy with his lot but hes got some balls to put his crotch through that.

Pop rocker Pink was blown away after giving a speech to 700 girls at Toronto's Humberside Collegiate Institute while promoting her album 'I'm Not Dead', after a group of Paris Hilton wannabes slammed her words, according to the National Enquirer.

The singer explained to the female audience that they shouldn't imitate the Hollywood blonde.

Pink enjoyed screams and applause from the majority of the girls, except for a group of 15-year-old miss prisses who threw insults at her, such as, "Maybe you put down Paris because you are soooo fat and UGLY!"

The singer remained confident in her views, and told them to avoid the "stupid girl epidemic".

The Hilton wannabes snapped back, "You're just jealous because Paris has talent."

A Big Brother contestant ejected from the house for rule-breaking has gone on hunger strike in an attempt to get hold of unedited footage of her time inside.

Dawn Blake, 38, wants to force the show's producers to hand over all film they have of her, and has pledged to refuse food "until I pass out".

She claims that she was held against her will, and needs evidence of her requesting to leave the house to support a complaint she has made to police.

Ms Blake also denied that she had refused to wash while in the house.

She said: "When I came out of the Big Brother house I saw how I was portrayed and a lot of it is not true, it's been edited in a way I don't like, not because I don't look so great but because it's just not true.

"When they said they booted me out, I said I wanted to leave. When they said Dawn refused to wash, that was so untrue.

"I am asking for a copy of the unedited footage in its entirety and I will remain on hunger strike until I get it. I will continue until I pass out."

Unable to afford the legal fees to bring a case for defamation against the show's producers, she said going on hunger strike was her only option.

A spokeswoman for the Big Brother programme said Ms Blake, who left on Thursday, was thrown out of the house for breaking the rules.

Denis Leary is all fired up about the new season of Rescue Me. The FX show last left off with a cliffhanger and there are more twists in store for the season premiere. Leary, 48, gives the inside scoop on the drama, his son following him into showbiz and why kids' movies make him cool.

Season two ended on a sad note, with your character's son being killed by a drunk driver. What happens next?
In the first four episodes, a lot of stuff comes up that's gonna turn your head. His family is breaking up and then there's a danger of the family of the firehouse breaking up. For Tommy, that's sort of the end of the world.

Your 16-year-old son Jack also works on the show.
Jack works as a (production assistant) on the show when he's out of school. Last year he played a kid with his head stuck in a fence.

Will your wife be making a cameo next?
No, he's the only one. Acting is kind of what he wants to do, so the reason I gave him the P.A. job is that I wanted him to find out what it's really like to work on a TV show – you get up at 5:30 in the morning, you work 12 or 14 hours. He accepted it and loved it. In return for that, I gave him a couple of small parts so he could get used to acting on camera.

How do you film those trademark fire scenes?
People don't understand how many fake fires are happening in Manhattan – fires that the Rescue Me cast has to put out. It's real fire, but it's controlled by us. Without fail, the real firemen get called because somebody's looking out a window and says, "Oh my God, these kids are trapped in a burning bus!"

Do real fireman ever pitch storylines?
Almost all of our stories are based on real stories that come from different guys that I know. And we're going to mention the New Orleans fire department this season because that fire department has been decimated. They lost 22 out of 36 houses. Those guys came to visit the set and a lot of the guys from our set had been down there to help them deal with (Hurricane) Katrina.

You voiced the tiger Diego in the Ice Age movies. Why's your voice so distinctive?
I don't know.

Wager a guess.
I guess I sound like a tiger, which nobody ever said to me until the Ice Age people called me years ago.

They told you that?
Yeah! And they called me to be the ladybug in (1998’s) A Bug’s Life. I thought that was pretty funny. I tell you, kids' movies are the easiest things in the world to do. . . . You can just go into a room, look like s---t and stand in front of the microphone all day. Plus, all my nieces and nephews automatically think (I'm) cool.

"You're so stinkin' good looking, and so nice … I hate that he's got a wife! That's what I hate!"
– Halle Berry, responding to X-Men costar Hugh Jackman's question about the toughest part of working with him, on TRL

"I have a very cool wife who doesn't mind me kissing Halle Berry.''
– Hugh Jackman, to Australia's Herald Sun

"The first question was, 'What was your worst break-up?' And I just kind of looked at the guy and I said, 'Really? Are ya kiddin?' "
– Jennifer Aniston, on doing interviews with the foreign press for her movie The Break-Up, to David Letterman

"Good luck in your ongoing non-relationship with Vince Vaughn."
– David Letterman, to Aniston, who has yet to admit she's dating her costar

"I don't tire of (the questions), because I would do the same."
– Vince Vaughn, confessing that he would be just as curious about his relationship status as the rest of the world, to Entertainment Weekly

"I definitely think that you probably get a little advantage being from a small town – not just a small town, but the South....Those are the people that are voting and start crying when you talk to them."
– Katharine McPhee, on losing American Idol to southerner Taylor Hicks

Len Wiseman, director of the movies, is in talks to direct the fourth Die Hard film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Written by Mark Bomback and Doug Richardson, the film will see cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) emerge from retirement to tackle an internet terrorist group.

Previously entitled Die Hard 4.0, the movie had to be partially rewritten in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina since a scene included a great tidal wave caused by an explosion in New Orleans.

Luc Besson, Willis' director in The Fifth Element, was previously rumoured to be helming the project.

Guns 'n' Roses have announced their first full UK tour since 1993.

The group had already agreed to play the Download Festival on June 11 and London's Hammersmith Apollo on June 7, reports the NME.

The full tour calls at:

London Hammersmith Apollo (June 7)

Download Festival (June 11)

Sheffield Hallam FM Arena (July 18)

Newcastle Metro Radio Arena (July 19)

Glasgow SECC (July 21)

Manchester MEN Arena (July 23)

Birmingham NEC (July 25)

Nottingham Arena (July 27)

London Wembley Arena (July 30)

Tickets are set to go on sale on June 2 at 9am.

Helena Bonham Carter and her husband Tim Burton are fighting to stop a pub from extending its opening hours.

The couple live in the expensive Primrose Hill area of London, and are trying to stop a celebrity-friendly pub in the area from extending its opening hours, saying the noisy regulars would disturb their way of life.

The couple have written a letter of complaint to the council about The Sir Richard Steele pub, asking the authorities not to allow the landlord to extend his opening hours.

The drinking hole has been a popular haunt for celebrities who live in the area, including Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, supermodel Kate Moss and actress Sienna Miller.

The letter reportedly declared: "We live extremely near to the pub and have to endure enough noise after it has shut. If the hours are extended we fear our quality of living is going to be severely hampered."

Pub manager Paul Davies is shocked by the complaint and insists the pub is not a raucous place.

Boy George has remarked that gay people should snub the conventionality of "civil partnerships" and questions Elton John's marriage.

The former Culture Club frontman has until now felt alienated because of his sexuality, and he resents having to become a regular member of society in order to be accepted.

He said: "I've spent many years being abused for being gay and I love being gay. But Elton getting married, what is that?

"I was raised to be an alien. Now don't tell me I can be normal. It's too late."