{"id":695,"date":"2006-06-22T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/06\/22\/superman-returns-to-the-falls\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T15:30:40","slug":"superman-returns-to-the-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/22\/superman-returns-to-the-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman Returns &#8230; to the falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?288\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Superman isn&#8217;t just returning to theatres next week, he&#8217;s coming back to Niagara Falls. In this case, literally right on the falls.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Saturday, Warner Bros. will beam the Man of Steel&#8217;s red and yellow emblem directly onto the Horseshoe Falls to tie in with Wednesday&#8217;s opening of Superman Returns.<\/p>\n<p>If this sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because Warner Bros. used the same promotion for Superman II 25 years ago. The sequel featured a memorable segment in which Superman (Christopher Reeve) rescues a boy who slips over the railing while viewing the falls. Later, his secret identity is discovered by Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) in a motel suite.<\/p>\n<p>The emblem display will once again be overseen by special effects artist Colin Chilvers, who won a Special Achievement Oscar for Superman and moved to Niagara shortly after Superman II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds cool! I&#8217;ll try to get a picture. If you&#8217;d like to read more about Superman II, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/05\/11\/niagara_falls_in_the_movies_superman_ii\/\">I posted about it last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Superman isn&#8217;t just returning to theatres next week, he&#8217;s coming back to Niagara Falls. In this case, literally right on the falls. Starting Saturday, Warner Bros. will beam the Man of Steel&#8217;s red and yellow emblem directly onto the Horseshoe Falls to tie in with Wednesday&#8217;s opening of Superman Returns&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}