Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen:

We linked to USA Today's Transformers article yesterday, but we missed a few extra pics. Here's Optimus Prime, Shia under fire, soldiers infiltrating a mysterious bunker that contains a glowing blue thingy. [USA Today]

Avatar:

We already posted a pic of James Cameron and Sam Worthington on the set of 2009's alien-world movie, but here are a couple new details as well. As we'd heard before, Worthington plays a veteran who's paralyzed from the waist down. (Which is why he ends up inhabiting a synthetic alien body, or "avatar.") Says Cameron, he "ultimately becomes a leader who transforms the world." [L.A. Times]

Captain America: The First Avenger:

Supposedly this movie takes place entirely during World War II, and it ends with Captain America getting frozen in a glacier, so he can be defrosted in the Avengers movie that comes out soon afterwards. Also, Tony Stark's daddy Howard designs Cap's shield. [UGO]

Lost:

A local TV station got a look at the season premiere and posted tons of details. The episode covers two separate timelines — one right after the Oceanic Six got off the island, and one three years later, when Ben and Jack meet at Locke's wake. We learn that Alpert told Locke the Oceanic Six must return to the island. Hurley and Sayid are a team, and Hurley gets some great one-liners. Like, when Sayid turns down some french fries, Hurley says: "You know, maybe if you ate more comfort food, you wouldn't have to go around killing people."

Meanwhile, back on the island, we catch up with the survivors, and see that the Swan Hatch and beach camp keep disappearing and reappearing in different states. Faraday knows more than he's letting on about what's happened, and he'll go against the "rules" of time travel in an effort to fix the past. And there are hints that Juliet and Sawyer are hooking up.

Meanwhile, Locke is on his own, not with the rest of the castaways. We see more of the dead characters, including Ana-Lucia, and the Virgin Mary statues will reappear. [The ODI]

And here are a few new pics from the first couple episodes of the season. [SpoilersLost]

Meanwhile, a New Zealand magazine gave more details on the "young Sayid" storyline we mentioned a while back:

Naveen Andrews will be replaced this season in Lost by another actor. But before fans become outraged, the replacement will be around 10 years old and will play his character Sayid as a boy. Producers are casting a father and two sons, all fluent in Arabic, for a flashback in which we see Sayid as a gentle and meek disappointment to his father until his dad teaches him a lesson that leaves scars we see in today's Sayid.

[SpoilersLost]

Plus there are a ton of set photos, including ones showing a Dharma van crashed into a barracks. Plus photos showing the "bomb tower" (where a bomb is being lowered into the ground) and a mysterious school. More pics at the links. [SpoilersLost and SpoilersLost]

Fringe:

Here are some new stills from the next episode, "Bound." Is there a Wachowski tribute in our future? [Fringe Bloggers]

Also, the next three episodes are called "Bound," "The No-Brainer" and "The Transformation." The first of those is written by the show's four creators, including Abrams, Orci and Kurtzman. The third is co-written by Joss Whedon's brother Zack. [Fringe Television]

Additional reporting by Katharine Duckett.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot of fans had a lot of questions about the upcoming Marvel movies, but answers weren't always forthcoming; when asked for a hint as to who will play Captain America in the upcoming The First Avenger movie, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige teased the audience with "You guys want to see Ben Affleck play Captain America?" only to be faced with a room full of boos. More seriously, he replied, "We've had ideas, there've been discussions, but we're going to hire filmmakers before we start making those decisions. But I guess it won't be Ben Affleck."

Will the success of the movies mean that Marvel's publishing operations will move to the West Coast? Joe Quesada isn't sure:

I never gave it any thought, I don't know. There are so many people key to us in publishing... to relocate several hundred people, you'd probably end up losing lots of key people. But the weather's nice out here, so you never know?

Marvel's publishing president Dan Buckley:

I'm not saying anything's impossible, but I don't think it's just an operational or business decision, but it would affect the books, New York is such a character in our books.

In a less physical sense, will future movies stay as close to their comic sources as Iron Man? Kevin Feige says yes, kind of:

We always try to stay true to the comics, but we do make changes. I mean, Obidiah Stane didn't work for Stark Enterprises in the comic books. We try to stay true to the core aspects of each character.

On a similar note, Carla Hoffman, a Southern Californian retailer, asked why none of the Hulk comics out at the time of the release of The Incredible Hulk seemed to reflect what people could see in the film. Joe Quesada admitted that that had maybe been a misstep:

If you look at our track record, we normally do a good job of that. We can't bat a 1000 all the time.

Dan Buckley was less forgiving:

With Iron Man, we didn't have to change a lot with what we were already doing, and we thank Matt [Fraction, writer of The Invincible Iron Man] for that. With the Hulk, we've been publishing that kind of story for years and years, so we'd point people back to the trade paperbacks for that... We don't want to get to the point where we're corporately dictating to people what they're writing.

Did The Incredible Hulk movie live up to expectations? Feige:

It did, it absolutely did. We were very pleased with the response. We always said that if it made one dollar more than the last one did, it would be a success, and it made more than one dollar more. The Hulk will return.

Will he return in the Avengers? And, more importantly, who else will show up in The Avengers movie? Feige wasn't sharing:

We have [all the cast lined up], and you'll see them pop up together. That's the idea.

Could anyone confirm Jon Favreau was definitely working on Iron Man 2? Feige:

I can't comment on that. But it comes to, do we want fans back for Iron Man 2? There'll be an announcement soon.

On the comic side on things, apparently suggesting that Spider-Man made a deal with the Devil to retcon his marriage away in One More Day isn't something that makes people at Marvel happy. When a fan brought up the subject, Dan Buckley interrupted:

I think it's unfair to burden this all on Joe. I think it was incredibly brave of Joe to [draw it]. First of all, that story's not over... The consequences of happiness versus unhappiness haven't been dealt with. He didn't do a deal with the devil, [Mephisto] isn't the devil, he's a supervillain in the Marvel Universe.

Joe Quesada disagreed:

Go back and reread One More Day and tell me who made the deal with the Devil. Peter didn't make the deal with the Devil, Mary Jane did. This was a story that we HAD to do to get Peter to a particular place. The idea of a Faustian pact... This is a classic part of literature. I think it's great to bring up a conversation, if you have a 5 year old, it brings up a great conversation. They're all morality plays that bring up different ideas for you to deal with as you raise a child. I think it's a matter on how you deal with it.

For people looking forward to the upcoming Wolverine And The X-Men cartoon, producer Craig Kyle was happy to talk it up:

It's 21 episodes of continuity and five specials. The pay-off lasts four episodes, it's a really, really big show. I'm very proud of the show, it works the only way the X-Men works: Like the comic book. My plan was to kick the hell out of [the '90s cartoon].

The last question of the panel also proved to be the biggest surprise to the audience; asked if the Thor movie would play up the Norse God aspects of the character more than the superhero trappings, Kevin Feige said that, well, Thor isn't actually a god at all: He and all the other citizens of Asgard are actually just interdimensional beings. So now you know: According to Marvel, neither gods nor devils are anything more than interdimensional beings in supervillain outfits. I expect the new Mighty Marvel Age of Revised Aethiestic Morality to overwhelm America immediately.