James McAvoy has been cast as Xavier in the upcoming prequel/reboot X-Men: First Class. Click on the link for more information.

Well this was inevitable. Hot on the success of the Star Trek prequel, it looks like a prequel has been planned for the X-Men franchise. Even better news is that Bryan Singer will be back!

Plans are in the works to re-release Avatar with additional footage. Check out the story here.

While I can't really make a connection between graphic novels and the Muppet news I am about to share, I am so excited that I need to post this. Disney has hired a director for the upcoming Muppets movie! And they are planning to prioritize it! For the full scoop, click here.

According to Sci-Fi Wire, the villains for the upcoming Spiderman 4 movie have been chosen and that Rachel McAdams might be Spidey's new love interest!

Last week, Gary Oldman told Comic-con attendees that shooting for the third Batman film is imminent. He was quoted as saying, "Batman will start shooting next year...So it's two years away [from release]."

Well at least I know what I will be waiting to watch in 2011...

--May

Natalie Portman has been cast in the movie Thor. Check out more details here.

For those who still have not heard the news, Ryan Reynolds has landed the lead role in the upcoming Green Lantern movie.

So this is a little late, but according to ICv2, there are two Easter Egg endings to the new Wolverine movie that appear after the credits. ICv2 further says that there will only be one ending per print, so if you want to see each ending, you have to go to two showings of the movie. Click here for the full details.

If this is true, I'm a bit irritated by the idea of having to pay two ticket prices to get the full experience of the movie...

Mark Bomback has been tapped to adapt The Umbrella Academy, the Dark Horse superhero comic created by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way. The Umbrella Academy is a group of disbanded superheroes who reunite after the death of their adoptive father, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, an alien disguised as a wealthy entrepreneur. Hargreeves collected the members of the group shortly after their birth and trained them to save the world, and, after his death, they carry on his plan.