Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Avengers vs. X-Men Will Be the Big Marvel Event Next Year (See the Livestream Event), Thor 2 Director Exits, and More

News and Updates December 7th:

Geeks of Doom: The Avengers Vs. The X-Men: It’s Happening - Pretty much every year, comic book publishers unleash a monthly event comic to boost excitement and sales in their comics. And this week Marvel Comics announced that event as The Avengers vs. The X-Men. Check Out The Livestream Event

Hollywood Reporter: Thor 2 Director Patty Jenkins Exits - The Monster helmer, who is leaving the project due to "creative differences," tells THR that she and Marvel parted "on very good terms."

NASA.gov: NASA's Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star - NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface.

Sci Fi Trifles from Axiom's Edge: Useless but essential pop culture tidbits and trivia from the worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Cancellation Watch Update: Are the Ratings Declines of Terra Nova and Once Upon A Time Deja Vu Back to FlashForward and V?

Hollywood Reporter: Final Destination 5 Poster Scares Up U.K. Ad Ban for Upsetting Children

TrekNews.com: William Shatner Added to Wizard World’s New Orleans Comic Con Also More Guests Announced for 2012 Las Vegas Star Trek Convention

Deadline Hollywood: Verizon Plans To Take On Netflix With Web Service

ScienceFiction.com: Looks Like Michael Bay Is Returning For A Fourth ‘Transformers’ Movie

Hollywood Reporter: Morgan Spurlock's Comic-Con Documentary Picked Up for Distribution

BleedingCool.com: Ridley Scott On “The Only Way To See A Film” And Why

Sci Fi Mafia: Zoe Kravitz and Sophie Okonedo to Join the Cast of Shyamalan’s After Earth

Deadline Hollywood: ABC Gives Pilot Green Light To Dan Fogelman’s Alien Family Comedy