Knowing of Superman's efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons and end the arms race, Lex Luthor met secretly with three unscrupulous top arms brokers, who dealt on the black market: American Harry Howler (William Hootkins) - a nuclear strategist and warmonger, Frenchman Jean Pierre Dubois (Jim Broadbent) - a nuclear warhead dealer, and eccentric "Mad Russian" General Romoff (Stanley Lebor).It received no Academy Award nominations.Of its seven Golden Raspberry Awards for its worst elements, it acquired four wins: Worst Screenplay, Worst Supporting Actor (Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor), Worst Screen Combo (Henry Cavill as Superman and Ben Affleck as Superman), and Worst Prequel, Remake, Ripoff or Sequel." During he ride, dinosaur-enthusiast Gray spoke: "When they first opened, they had eight species.Now they have 14 herbivores and 6 carnivores.That's like 50 tons of food a week." On the ferry dock, they were met by their aunt's bored and distracted British personal assistant Zara Young (Katie McGrath).With three years advance publicity and Hollywood myth-making, hree and one-half hours running time (with one intermission), a gala premiere in Atlanta on December 15, 1939, highest-grossing film status (eventually reaching an unadjusted intake of almost $200 million domestic, and just over $402 million worldwide), and Max Steiner's sweeping musical score, the exquisitely-photographed, Technicolor film was a blockbuster in its own time.