Simon can get as excited as he likes about new glimpses of the next Batman movie, but I'm decidedly more in the Marvel camp than the DC one, so the superhero movie of 2008 for me, in the absence of a new Spider-Man film, will be Iron Man.

So, let's all look at this new picture of Iron Man.

Cool, isn't it?

That's not the only Marvel movie related news to come out this week, either. Rumours abound that the Marvel universe will start to feel a little more integrated on screen, much like the way it does in the comics. It seems fairly certain now that Samuel L. Jackson will be playing Nick Fury in Iron Man, and it's also being whispered that he'll be showing up in The Incredible Hulk, too.

Marvel's crossover events don't always go well - see: World War Hulk - but characters popping up for cameos in one another's movies would be awesome. It's all been fairly problematic before now, because Marvel's movie properties are spread out over many movie studios, but where there's a will, there's a way...