Roger Friedman’s Friday column is not to be missed! It’s all about Harry Potter, Batman Begins and Superman Returns. If I quoted you all the interesting parts I’d be reprinting the whole column without permission, so here are two great teases from Warner Brothers chief Alan Horn:

“Batman 3 and 4 were awful.” That’s a direct quote from Horn, which is what makes the “new” Warner Bros. so refreshing.

As the studio releases its second big hit of this summer season today, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Horn doesn’t mind admitting to have made mistakes.

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He meant to “Batman Forever” (1995, starring Val Kilmer) and “Batman and Robin” (1997, with George Clooney).

“They were terrible,” he said. “But we’re also the studio that made ‘Catwoman’ and ‘Pluto Nash,’” he said with a chuckle. “Everybody makes mistakes.”

Oh, bless you for admitting it! This is so refreshing. And how about this:

Finally, I did ask Horn how the new Superman movie, “Superman Returns,” is going.

Newcomer Brandon Routh, he says, “looks just like Superman. But we knew we had to overcome the fact that Chris Reeve was so beloved and that everyone thinks of him in the role.”

The solution?

“We’re going to dedicate the new movie to him. I haven’t told [director] Bryan Singer yet, but we’ll put it at the beginning or the end, ‘In memory of Christopher Reeve.’”