Jim Cavaziel is struggling to land the lead role in the new Superman movie - because director Bryan Singer wants an unknown actor.

CINEMAS are expected to be booked solid for screenings of Mel Gibson’s controversial The Passion of the Christ when it opens in Ireland on Friday.

Mel Gibson’s controversial film about the last hours of Christ on earth was today denounced by a critic as “the most virulently anti-Semitic movie made since the German propaganda films of the Second World War.”

Hollywood megastar Mel Gibson is returning to the director’s chair with The Passion.