The latest issue of Comic-Con Magazine has the first official photo of Samuel L. Jackson as The Spirit arch-enemy the Octopus. They also have an interview with Frank Miller talking about the upcoming comic book adaptation. Click to enlarge.

The Spirit hits theaters on Christmas 2008.

Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2!

Orlando United has photos of the exterior and queue area of Disney’s new Toy Story Mania. I love the mini-replica of Pixar Studios.
David Chase, creator of “The Sopranos,” has signed on to write, [...]

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Our friends at First Showing having confirmed that Captain America’s red, white and blue shield appears near the 1 hr 30 min mark in Iron Man. I looked for a better screen grab, but haven’t found one clearer than that above. The scene is the one where Pepper Potts/Gwyneth Paltrow walks in on [...]

Last we reported, Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury had been waxed off the final cut of Iron Man, but fortunately that’s not the case. As MovieHole points out, Fury/Jackson does appear but not until after the surefire blockbuster’s end credits. He also delivers some spoiler-worthy dialogue [Slashfilm pistol fires in air], which we have after [...]

Last week set photos from Frank Miller’s big screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit leaked online, leaving some fans disappointed.
Update: Today Lionsgate has released two new production High Resolution photos, both of which desperately scream “See, the movie looks like Sin City, I swear it really does, don’t look at those other unauthorized unfinished [...]

Buried in this report covering yesterday’s Wizard World convention in L.A. is the news via a panel that Samuel L. Jackson may not have a cameo as Marvel character Nick Fury in Iron Man after all. Nearly a year ago AICN reported the casting news as a definite for the summer blockbuster, and since then [...]

The word over at Superhero Hype is the Lionsgate has already negotiated with Frank Miller to direct two sequels to his Sin City-style green screen comic book caper The Spirit. If true, this would indicate tremendously sweet buzz on the project, as the main character, a detective who fakes his death to more vigilantly pursue [...]

I don’t know about you guys but I’m beginning really getting excited for Doug Liman’s Jumper.
Jumper is an epic sci-fi action film starring Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson and Samuel L. Jackson. Set in the future, Jumper is about a race of people called Jumpers who have the ability to teleport, and another ancient [...]

Fox wasn’t prepared to premiere material at Comic-Con, because, they claimed, everything was in such an “early” not ready for prime-time form. Yet 10-days later they have launched the official Jumper website, and have released four production photos from the 1992 Steven Gould sci-fi novel adaptation.
A genetic anomaly allows a young man (Hayden Christensen) to [...]

Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to star as a mysterious super-villain named The Octopus in Frank Miller’s big screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit.
The story will focus  an ambitious young cop named Denny Colt, who is murdered in the line of duty and is mysteriously reborn as the masked man known as the [...]

Naomi Watts will star in an adaptation of Amy Sutherland’s Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World’s Premiere School for Exotic Animal Trainers for First Look Pictures. Todd Louiso (Love Liza) and Jacob Koskoff are scripting it into a romantic comedy.
Former SNL Weekend Update duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will co-star [...]

American History X director/cinematographer Tony Kaye is in negotiations to direct an adaptation of Carsten Stroud’s novel, Black Water Transit. The film reunited Pulp Fiction stars Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, and is scheduled to shoot early April in New Orleans.
After a 16-year legal battle, Disney has lost the rights to Winnie the Pooh [...]

Black Snake Moan has been moved back a week while Balls of Fury has been pushed back five months. Let’s take a look at why.