Superman in film as Superman, but it was shelved in 2008 and the film series was rebooted in 2013 with "Man of Steel", directed by Zack Snyder with Henry Cavill starring as Superman. Snyder and Cavill worked together again in "" and "Justice League". Superman first appeared in cinemas in a series of 17 theatrical animated shorts from between 1941 and 1943. They were released by Paramount Pictures. Of those seventeen, nine were produced by Fleischer Studios and further eight by its successor, Famous Studios. The first appearances of Superman in live-action film were in two serials for Columbia Pictures: "Superman" in 1948
Hard to Be a God (2013 film) History of the Arkanar Massacre" (). The press has also mentioned the alternative title "The Carnage in Arkanare", and a film script published under the title "What said the tobacconist from Tobacco Street". Later, the title was reverted to "Hard to Be a God". Reception in the Russian media was mixed. However, "Hard to Be a God" received universal acclaim from English-language critics. Review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes reports that 94% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 36 reviews with an average rating of 9.1/10. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to