Hopefully you’ve all seen Inception this weekend, so can enjoy this prequel comic Warner Bros have released.

The Cobol Job presents the mission Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (as Dom and Arthur) were working on at the beginning of Inception, so it may spoil you if don’t want to know what exactly it is they do, and how they do it, if you’ve not yet seen it. Just a nice little aside to add to the world Christopher Nolan has created.

Click here to read the The Cobol Job!

The first image of Green Lantern has been released over at EW.com.

Entertainment Weekly have the first look at Ryan Reynolds in his CGI costume. He plays Hal Jordan in the adaptation of the DC Comic creation, a pilot who becomes the first earth inhabitant to be inducted into the universe’s peace-keeping Green Lantern Corps. Casino Royale director Martin Campbell is in charge, and Peter Sarsgaard, Blake Lively and Mark Strong co-star in the film, which is released June 2011.

The planned X-Men prequel is looking more impressive by the minute, as Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Lawrence jump onboard.

Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn’s take on the origins story begins filming this summer, with James McAvoy as a young Xavier and Michael Fassbender as Magneto.

Bacon has been cast as the villain in Jane Goldman’s script, and the part of the young Mystique has gone to Jennifer Lawrence, a 19-year-old who’s already scooped several awards, and was the star in Sundance hit Winter’s Bone. She’ll be the younger version of the blue shapeshifter played by Rebecca Romijn in the trilogy.

Marvel have released a new image from Thor, showing Norse god of thunder’s family.

Kenneth Branagh is adapting the story, with Chris Hemsworth in the title role. This new photo focuses on Odin, played by Anthony Hopkins, with Thor and Loki (Tom Hiddlestone) either side of their father.

The first trailer is expected at this week’s San Diego Comic-Con, so until then, make do with this picture from Marvel.com. Thor is released May 2011, and co-stars Natalie Portman.

Spaced, Hot Fuzz and Shaun Of The Dead heroes Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are teaming up once more for a tribute to all things geeky.

The first production images have been released of Paul, which sees Pegg and Frost’s script brought to life by Adventureland and Superbad director Greg Mottola, the first time the two have worked together without Edgar Wright (who’s busy putting the finishing touches to Scott Pilgrim).

Frost and Pegg are Clive and Graeme, two sci-fi geeks who travel to the San Diego Comic Con, and Roswell – the birthplace of America’s UFO mythology. There they meet Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen), an alien who they must help get home to his mothership. Paul is to be released March 2011.

The first production stills from Scott Pilgrim Vs The World have been released.

Shaun Of The Dead director Edgar Wright tackles Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comic book series, with Juno star Michael Cera in the leading role. Pilgrim is a bassist for garage band Sex Bob-omb who must defeat Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s seven evil ex-boyfriends who are out to kill him.

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Spider-Man and Milk star James Franco has been cast in 127 Hours, the amazing true story of Aron Ralston.

Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle will tell the tale of the climber who was forced to cut off his own arm when he was trapped by a boulder for five days. Boyle is writing the script and filming is due to start in Utah this March.

Sam Mendes is reportedly in talks to direct the next Bond movie.

The Hollywood Reporter claim that the Oscar-winning director of American Beauty, Road To Perdition and Revolutionary Road will be behind the camera for the 23rd film in the franchise, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond.

Bond regulars Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are working on the script with Peter Morgan, the writer behind Frost/Nixon and The Queen. The last Bond outing was 2008’s Quantum Of Solace.

The production of Spider-Man 4 has officially been put on hold.

The next film in the Marvel franchise was meant to have a May 2011 release date, but the director, Sam Raimi, and Sony can’t come to an agreement on the script. Raimi, who helmed the first three of the hugely successful comic adaptations, is reportedly holding out for John Malkovich to be The Vulture, whereas Sony want to go in a different direction with the villain. Regular Spidey scribe Alvin Sargent is now in charge of the story after the project was passed to several writers.

Sony have now confirmed that the scheduled filming in February is not likely to happen, with a source telling Variety: “I think making May is a real question. We will not start until we have it right. The feeling is we are not going to rush it to make the date.”

The director of last year’s Taken is to helm the remake of Dune.

Pierre Morel is to tackle Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 sci-fi novel, which was previously brought to the big screen by David Lynch in 1984. Morel made his debut with District 13, and his next action flick, From Paris With Love, is out this year.

A new script is to be commissioned, scrapping writer Josh Zetumer’s work for Peter Berg, who was originally scheduled to direct.

A prequel to The Thing is to start filming in Toronto this March.

The story behind the devastated Norwegian base in John Carpenter’s classic 1982 sci-fi chiller is to be told, with Eric Heisserer (the Nightmare On Elm Street remake) and Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) writing the script.

Dutch producer Matthijs van Heijningen is to direct, but no cast members have been confirmed.

Bryan Singer is to direct a new origins story, X-Men: First Class.

The Usual Suspects director helmed the first X-Men in 2000, and followed it up with an even better film in its sequel, X2. After Brett Ratner took over for X-Men 3: The Last Stand, Singer is set to return for a prequel.

He told MySpace: “I’m ramping up to do a movie called Jack The Giant Killer at Warner Bros, and I just yesterday signed a deal to do an X-Men: First Class Origins picture, which is kind of cool. I’m very excited.”

He’ll be working from a script by newcomer Jamie Moss.