Now that Marvel has earned all of the world’s money with The Avengers — having already passed the billion-dollar mark — ABC is going to try to hop on this gravy train and continue to develop a TV series for the character with director Guillermo Del Toro. This is not an entirely bad idea, considering The Incredible Hulk enjoyed a four-season run on CBS from 1978 to 1982. So, we know this can work on TV. But after The Avengers, do we really want to see someone besides Mark Ruffalo play Bruce Banner and his rowdy green counterpart? And even if we did, can they even top the latest big-screen version of the Hulk?

James Cameron has announced that he is officially tired of making all that money and winning all those awards. In an interview with The New York Times, the big-budget filmmaker said that he might make one more Avatar movie after the second and third movies he has planned — and then that’s basically it. Because he’s really into deep-sea diving these days, and also, he has made more money than any one person should, so it’s probably cool to retire now. Well, can we blame him?

Toni Morrison has never written her memoirs, and if you’re a fan of the author, you’ve probably always wondered, “Huh. I wonder why Toni Morrison has never written her memoirs.” Well, she was going to, had a contract with a publisher and everything, but then, as she revealed to Oberlin College students in a recent talk, she abandoned the plans completely. Why? Because Toni Morrison finds her life story to be “boring.” She’s more interested in creating all new characters with all kinds of experiences, thankyouverymuch. But yeah … Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, American Book Award, once called “the nearest thing America has to a national novelist” … booooooooring.

In a bizarre comic book alternate universe, Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr. played Lex Luthor in McG’s Superman movie. This almost happened in our reality. Read on to find out the details. 

One million years ago, when I was in high school, I was hanging out backstage of our school play with some fellow female cast and crew mates, where we were having a serious discussion in an attempt to make the poor freshman boy in the booth — who could hear everything over the active body mics — severely uncomfortable. We talked about our periods, made up crushes and rumors, and one day, we discussed which animated characters we found really, really hot. And that’s exactly the project that Lindsay Ellis, also known as “The Nostalgia Chick” over at That Guy With the Glasses, has taken on. If she had only heard our conversation … she would have been even more disturbed than I was when I saw who made the number 10 slot. (Goliath tied for #9, by the way. I won’t spoil who he had to share the slot with.) Video after the jump.

Amazon.com, the go-to online website for discounted products and lazy shoppers (myself included) is about to test out an actual physical store location to sell its products. If successful, you could soon have an Amazon store in your neighborhood. 

Um, okay. Gross. I say this as a devout fan of the original Psycho movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. But wanting to bring the same success of horror-themed shows like FX‘s American Horror Story, True Blood, and The Walking Dead, A&E has announced that it’s developing a series about the Bates Motel, the site of several murders at the hands of the titular psycho, Norman Bates (played by Anthony Perkins). The plot of the show concerns what turned Norman into a murderer. Maybe I shouldn’t assume it’s going to be absolutely horrible, but can I say I’d prefer to see Psycho left alone (after it was already subject to an unnecessary shot-for-shot remake)? Yes. I’m going to say that.

So, do either of those dashing 1990s heartthrobs look anything like Steve Jobs to you? It may interest you to know that while Noah Wyle (Dr. Carter) has actually played the late Apple CEO before — in 1999′s TNT movie Pirates of Silicon Valley — it’s George Clooney (Dr. Ross) whose name has been mentioned since Sony purchased the rights to Jobs’ biography. Isn’t George Clooney just the guy that every dude wishes would play him in the movie about his life? But okay, we’ll stay open-minded. Leonardo DiCaprio is playing J. Edgar Hoover, after all.

Those of us who have always been into vampires have thought that the vampires from the Twilight series just aren’t authentic enough for us to take them seriously. Come on, vampires who abstain from biting humans and walk around in daylight? Imposters! Phonies! But now, academics are saying that we should consider the sparkle-vamps to be “starter vampires for beginners,” an introduction to real, actual vampires. This is a really nice way of saying that we still don’t have to take the Twilight vampires that seriously. Thank you, scholars!

In a battle between tiny blue cartoon creatures and, well, cowboys and aliens, it’s a draw! Both movies each made about $36.2 million, with The Smurfs exceeding expectations. (Because it’s a CGI Smurfs movie, Neil Patrick Harris notwithstanding.) However, the Smurfs’ success kind of spells failure for Cowboys & Aliens, “to the point of tanking,” according to Deadline. And now Sony is all “See? People like the Smurfs! We knew this!” The lesson? Don’t underestimate the power of kids at the box office. Again, something we probably knew.