This year marks the 25-year anniversary of the premiere of Smallville and Creation Entertainment is celebrating with the Salute to Smallville convention November 7-8 in Nashville, Tennessee. While the guest list is already very packed with such folks as Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Erica Durance, Laura Vandervoort, John Glover and many more, there was a certain name not announced yet who was a vital part of Smallville’s beginnings. (Hey, who remembers Smallville: Beginnings?)

That name would, of course, be Kristin Kreuk, who played Lana Lang for seven seasons of Smallville with a five-episode arc to wrap up her character in Season 8. This means the original cast trio of her, Tom, and Michael will be reunited only a few weeks after the series turns 25.

Gold Admission Passes – which will include exclusive entry to a big panel on the Sunday morning of the convention – are still available but they’re going fast. If you want to see that panel, though, that’s the way to do it; additional tiers of admission passes will be offered at a future date. Creation has also added several photo opportunities including Kristin in case you’d like to take a photo with her. The event will include panels and Q&A’s, cosplay, trivia, autographs, and the best part – the opportunity to spend time with hundreds of other people who love Smallville just as much as you do. For some fans, it’s become an annual tradition.

The hope is for the anniversary convention to be huge. It’ll be the third year, and that means every year gets better, and better, right?

DISCLAIMER: When KryptonSite’s Craig Byrne isn’t busy preparing the site for the upcoming anniversary, he makes websites and graphics for Creation Entertainment. He also co-emcees the Salute to Smallville shows with House of El’s Derek Russell.

We’re starting to think someone at the Warner Bros. social media team may be a Smallville fan as they have recently posted a new video spotlighting the references to Superman on Smallville. Of course, it’s not every reference ever, but it’s nice to see the show being spotlighted by WB and DC in this day and age, especially now that we are in the year that will mark 25 years since the premiere of Smallville on October 16, 2001. With ten seasons and 218 episodes, there’s a lot to choose from! (Yes, 218. “Absolute Justice” counts as two!)

What was your favorite Superman reference? Leave some comments below and unless there’s some kind of disaster, we promise the KryptonSite Forums will return sooner rather than later! Happy Anniversary Year, everybody!

Michael Rosenbaum recently spoke with the Bleeding Cool website about a number of topics, including the much-asked-about Smallville animated project. Unfortunately, the latest seems to be no update on what we’ve heard before.

“I would say the Smallville animated series that I created, and we have Al and Miles, creators of Smallville, who are in, and Tom Welling. We want to do it, and it’s just got to be the right timing. Right now, I’m not sure it is, but we’ll see. I think it will happen at some point, but I don’t know when. I wish I had an oracle, but I hope it comes to fruition,” Michael told them.

Rosenbaum also discussed the things that really made his Lex Luthor work.

“Ultimately, if you don’t know anything about the character’s past or don’t know why he became evil, then to me, you’re missing the special sauce and the ingredients. That’s what is most important to me. I knew I was playing a character, we were going to delve into his past, his childhood, his relationship with his father, and with other people. We saw him evolve, and I thought that’s what was interesting,” he said. “I thought the creators (behind Smallville, Al (Gough) and Miles (Millar) did a terrific job, and that’s why people liked what I did, because I had the opportunity to be likable, lovable, and be understood, and then I turned. You know why I did, and to me, that’s the best villain. When you see different layers, that’s all I’ll say about that. There have been some great actors to play Lex, but I think that’s the most important thing to me, and I had the luxury of having years to develop and become the ultimate villain,” he continued.

As for his favorite Lex Luthor actors?

Michael’s favorite is Gene Hackman “because of the nostalgia,” and he loves Nicholas Hoult’s take on the character from James Gunn’s 2025 Superman film. He also had fond things to say about Michael Cudlitz and Jon Cryer.

You can read the full Bleeding Cool interview here.