Superman Returns to open two days early

ComingSoon.net reports that Warner Bros. will release Superman Returns on June 28 instead of June 30, to give the movie an extra two days before the July 7 opening of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

The shuffle is one of a handful of changes announced by the studio -- the others being new dates for The Ant Bully and Barnyard, and the move of Brad Pitt's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford from Sept. 15 to sometime in 2007.

Superman Returns had an initial budget of $184.5 million, and is said to have finished "well south of $200 million."