I saw some footage from comicon where they revealed the full titles to some of the upcoming films...

Thor: The Dark Planet

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

I wonder if "Dark Planet" might mean EGO The Living Planet? It could be a Thanos tie-in.

There was also a cute story about "The Exact Moment Ed Brubaker Found Out What The Captain America Sequel Is Going To Be Called"

http://bcool.bz/Ljilyf

Come on Ed, every man and his dog knew what the sequel was going to be called!

Ego the Living Planet would be pretty amazing on screen. As long as they don't go the Galactus-in-the-FF-movie route and make him not have a massive planet-sized face.

The Winter Soldier storyline sounds like a good one for a movie too. So can we expect royalties for Brubaker and Steve Epting, or not?

And Thanos royalties for Starlin too!

If Starlin gets anything out of his dispute, I'll pay to see more Marvel movies. If not, I'll download them via BitTorrent.

While I would love to see Starlin get royalties too, the difference is that Brubaker's contributions all occurred in this century, under what I presume are the most up-to-date Marvel contracts. So I would hope that those new contracts are at least a tiny bit more enlightened than the old 1970's back-of-the-check we-own-everything-you-get-nothing contracts. It would be interesting to find that out.

Peter, Starlin may not have one of those old checks either. The below is from the thread titled, "Jim Starlin Thanos Lawsuit?"

Also there is a difference between creating a character (Thanos) and creating a storyline using existing characters.

Could the argument be made that he created Winter Soldier?

Doubtful, since the whole point of the storyline was that the Winter Soldier was the pre-existing character Bucky. If Winter Soldier had been a new character, there would have been no emotional resonance.

Now it is possible that Brubaker could have signed a creator contract similar to what Siegel & Shuster signed for Superboy, which was of course just a different version of Superman. Such a contract could include any number of royalty options for Brubaker. But unless he did sign such a contract, it is doubtful he will get more than a "special thanks" credit, similar to the one Starlin got at the end of the Avengers film.