<P> For the sequences involving the terraforming of the city Metropolis, Double Negative handled the visual effects for the sequence . In order to construct a Metropolis that seemed convincing and realistic, Double Negative utilized Esri's CityEngine to help procedurally deliver the city . "That was a much more sci - fi based role," said Double Negative visual effects supervisor Ged Wright, "so we took what they had done and extended it a great deal . The work we were doing was based around the Downtowns for New York, L.A. and Chicago and that gave us the building volumes for heights . We'd skin those volumes with kit parts, but most of it then had to fall down! So we had to rig it for destruction and use it for other aspects of the work as well ." </P> <P> For the destruction of the buildings, the studio rewrote its own asset system to focus towards its dynamic events . The Bullet physics software was a heavily impacted component for the utilization of the destruction . "We wanted to be able to run an RBD event and trigger all these secondary events, whether it was glass or dust simulations--all of those things needed to be chained up and handled in a procedural way," said Wright . "One of the advantages of this was that, because it was all based around a limited number of input components, you can make sure they're modeled in a way they're usable in effects--you can model something but they'll be another stage to rig it for destruction ." Fire, smoke, and water stimulation tools were developed at the Double Negative studio . The studio transitioned between the existing proprietary volume rendering software to rendering in Mantra for elements such as fireball sims . Double Negative also used the in - house fluids tool "Squirt" to handle larger scale sims and interaction for more tightly coupled volumes and particles . Regarding the battle between Superman and Zod, Double Negative implemented real photography onto its digital doubles . </P> <P> Hans Zimmer initially denied popular rumors that he would be composing the film's score . However, in June 2012, it was confirmed that Zimmer would, in fact, be writing the film's musical score . To completely distinguish Man of Steel from the previous films, the iconic "Superman March" by John Williams was not used . Hans Zimmer's soundtrack for Man of Steel was released publicly on June 11, 2013 . An unofficial rip of the musical score from the third trailer, entitled "An Ideal of Hope", confirmed to be a cut - down version of the track "What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World?", was released on April 19, 2013 . In late April 2013, the official track listing of the two - disc deluxe edition was revealed . </P> <P> Man of Steel held a red carpet premiere at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City on June 10, 2013, which featured the attendance of the principal cast members . The film received a wide release on June 14, 2013, in conventional, 3D, and IMAX theaters . </P>

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