Marvel Entertainment has created an entertainment division specifically for the small screen named Marvel Television, and award-winning comic and TV writer Jeph Loeb will head the division.

Loeb, a onetime co-executive producer of NBC’s Heroes, will supervise the transition from comics to the TV screen for Marvel’s popular characters and stories. Loeb will be involved with developing and distributing live-action, animation, and direct-to-DVD series

Loeb will collaborate on the television projects with Dan Buckly, Marvel’s publisher and president of print, animation, and digital division.

A new animated Ultimate Spider-Man series and the previously announced animated Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes series will air on the Disney XD television channel, according to Marvel, who made the announcement this weekend at the Marvel Animation Panel at the 2010 C2E2.

“It’s nice to be a part of Disney,” said Marvel’s Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada in reference to the first fruits of labor witnessed since his company was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in August 2009. [Read: Disney To Acquire Marvel Entertainment For $4 Billion]

The two new animated shows are just the first in what will likely be many more projects set to debut on the Disney XD network, which according to Quesada, was just one of the major benefits of the Disney deal.

We’ve seen a few posters for Iron Man 2 so far and we’ve even seen a couple of amazing trailers, but another poster never hurt an eager fan’s eyeballs. Yahoo! Movies has debuted the brand new International poster for the much-anticipated sequel from Paramount Pictures.

Most of the other one-sheets have focused on something in particular, but this new poster has pretty much everything gathered together. Iron Man and Tony Stark, War Machine and James Rhodes, Black Widow, Pepper Potts, and of course, Whiplash — they’re all here to see. The only notable absentee is Justin Hammer, but more fans probably aren’t going to run to their local theater because he’s on the poster.

Head on over to the other side to see the new International poster.

Remember all those months ago when it was announced that Disney had plans to buy Marvel for a few billion dollars? [Read Disney To Acquire Marvel Entertainment For $4 Billion]

Well, the two companies took a major step towards that merger today, when Marvel shareholders approved the plan to merge the two companies. The cost of the merger, based on stock prices from yesterday, will have an estimated value of 4.3 billion dollars.

Of course there’s still the step of going through the Securities and Exchange Commission, but my guess is that it won’t be a problem, and the merger will be completed today as Marvel expects. It looks like we will start the New Year with the House of Ideas being owned by the House of Mouse. It will be interesting to see if any major changes are made at Marvel in 2010, or if Disney will let them do their own thing and cash big fat movie checks in a few years.

It’s official, Samuel L. Jackson will indeed be returning as Nick Fury in Iron Man 2, as well as oh, so much more. Reports are that Jackson has inked a NINE picture deal with Marvel Entertainment — an unheard of deal.

Along with Iron Man 2, Jackson is expected to appear as Nick Fury in Kenneth Branagh‘s Thor, The Avengers, Captain America, and possibly a S.H.I.E.L.D. movie. The deal would also include the all-but-guaranteed sequels for some of them.

Marvel obviously really wanted to solidify someone as Fury, and thankfully, they got the man they first chose for the job.