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" Let Me In      Release Date: Oct. 1, 2010 When it was announced that Cloverfield director Matt Reeves would remake the beloved\u2014and creepy\u2014Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In, fans were horrified. But the footage that Reeves and stars Richard Jenkins, Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee showed at Comic Con put their fears to rest. The film still tells the Romeo and Juliet story of a brutally bullied boy (Smit-McPhee) and the young girl (Moretz) he befriends when she and her father (Jenkins) move in next door. Except he&amp;#039;s not her father, and she&amp;#039;s not a girl\u2014she&amp;#039;s a vampire. The clips Reeves showed were similar in tone to the original, and it&amp;#039;s set in the &amp;#039;80s, just like its predecessor. Despite the fact that the studio wanted to make them older, the kids are the same age. And one of the things Reeves liked most about the first film\u2014set in Sweden\u2014was the contrast between the blood and the snow. So he put his film in the high desert of Los Alamos, N.M. Throughout the whole process, Reeves was careful to pay homage to the original film while making the movie he envisioned. &amp;quot;I think the original is a masterpiece,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I know a lot of people are worried\u2014they&amp;#039;re really cynical. But the thing is, that movie will always exist. Hopefully you&amp;#039;ll feel like this is another interpretation of a story that touches you.&amp;quot; RED      Release Date: Oct. 15, 2010 RED\u2014which stands for Retired Extremely Dangerous\u2014has Bruce Willis, Mary Louise Parker, Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman playing former CIA spies who must figure out who&amp;#039;s trying to kill them. The film is based on a graphic novel by Warren Ellis. &amp;quot;My role was to stay out of the way,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I said to the producer crew and the writers, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m always here if you want to talk, but I want to see what you make of the film. You&amp;#039;re making an adaptation, not a translation. Go and have fun with it.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Mirren&amp;#039;s role is different from the regal characters she usually plays. For one, she frequently wields machine guns. Queen Elizabeth never did that. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a very different role,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;As an actor, those are the roles you long for. I guess the people who go and see this are not the people who go and see a film about Tolstoy.&amp;quot; The film also features a fight sequence between Willis and Karl Urban, who plays bad guy William Cooper. While Urban says it&amp;#039;s unlikely he&amp;#039;ll ever use the skills he learned for the film in real life, he enjoyed putting them to use. &amp;quot;I haven&amp;#039;t had so much fun in years,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not often you get to pick up one of the most iconic action heroes ever and throw him across the room!&amp;quot; MegaMind      Release Date: Nov. 5, 2010 MegaMind director Tom McGrath found inspiration for his main characters\u2014supervillain MegaMind (voiced by Will Ferrell) and hero Metro Man (Brad Pitt)\u2014in the real-life rivalry between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. &amp;quot;Edison was the hero, but he had a dark side,&amp;quot; McGrath says. &amp;quot;Tesla was really the guy who made it all happen, but he was vilified by Edison.&amp;quot;  MegaMind is an inventor whose skill is brainpower. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s brain versus brawn in a way, and it&amp;#039;s a lot of DIY technology on his side,&amp;quot; McGrath says. He creates vehicles, a gun that can dehydrate and rehydrate inanimate objects and a watch that disguises the big-headed blue villain into a regular guy. &amp;quot;A lot of the technology is kind of thrown together from repurposed items,&amp;quot; McGrath says. &amp;quot;But his root power source is Tesla plasma. His lair is even in a power plant.&amp;quot; When one of MegaMind&amp;#039;s creations actually defeats Metro Man, the villain must become a hero\u2014and defeat his own invention. It&amp;#039;s the kind of thing that McGrath thinks PM readers in particular can relate to. &amp;quot;The world, the devices and the thinking that goes into the devices ... you know, I think any garage tinkerer could think of himself as a mad scientist in a way,&amp;quot; he says. Skyline      Release Date: Nov. 12, 2010 When directors Greg and Colin Strause wanted to create a movie about aliens abducting the entire population of the Earth\u2014sort of Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Cloverfield\u2014they didn&amp;#039;t turn to a big studio for financing. Instead, they shot in Greg&amp;#039;s house on their own budget. The brothers own 100 percent of the film, which went from idea to final movie in 11 months with a crew of less than 20 people. They even shot the trailer before hiring actors. The film stars David Zayas, Scottie Thompson, Donald Faison, Brittany Daniel and Eric Balfour as friends who wake in the middle of the night to find huge spaceships sucking groups of people off the planet.  The finished film was clearly enough to win over Universal Pictures and Rogue, which will distribute the movie. Comic Con crowds were wowed by the footage they saw. And for Faison, the decision to sign on was simple: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always wanted to fight against a green screen or against something that wasn&amp;#039;t there,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;This was my opportunity, so I took it.&amp;quot; TRON: Legacy      Release Date: Dec. 17, 2010 This December, programs and users will finally get the sequel they&amp;#039;ve been waiting for\u201425 years later. In TRON: Legacy, we find out that Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) has been missing for 20 years. He has left behind a son, Sam (Garret Hedlund), who gets scanned into the mainframe and tries to find his dad. &amp;quot;I heard rumors of a sequel for 20 years,&amp;quot; Bridges says. &amp;quot;I kinda gave up on it. To feel the energy of the people at Comic Con\u2014when we showed the effects test, that was very responsible for getting the movie going. The fans are integral to this whole thing, the Tron world.&amp;quot; Director Joe Kosinski shot Legacy using the Pace-Cameron system outfitted with Sony f35 cameras. &amp;quot;As far as 3D goes, this film seems suited to it,&amp;quot; Kosinski says. &amp;quot;But it&amp;#039;s a lot more work. It does cost more. A true 3D movie, shot with two cameras, and VFX finished for both eyes\u2014it&amp;#039;s a tedious process, but it pays off.&amp;quot;  Producer Steve Lisberger\u2014who directed the original, which was shot in 70-mm black-and-white film and colorized later\u2014says that first film felt like it was 3D. &amp;quot;We came from a world of 2D filmmaking and 2D animation,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I remember when we realized we were going to have to render this stuff in a computer in 3D.&amp;quot; Today, the advances in CGI not only allow for 3D, but also some excellent new vehicles, including a lightrunner (like a light cycle car). &amp;quot;It was a great time assembling people from the automotive industry to come in and collaborate on this project,&amp;quot; Kosinski says. Even the suits got an upgrade: While the original was a simply black spandex with white adhesive tape, the new suits have electroluminescent lamps woven through neoprene.   --&amp;amp;gt;  The Green Hornet       Release Date: Jan. 14, 2011 When Seth Rogen was a kid, he and his friend/writing partner Evan Goldberg would get together on Saturday mornings and watch Batman. And after that, they&amp;#039;d watch reruns of The Green Hornet. So when it came time to write a superhero movie, Hornet seemed like a natural fit. &amp;quot;We wanted to write a movie about a hero and a sidekick and the relationship between them,&amp;quot; Rogen says. &amp;quot;The Green Hornet was perfect for that because of how famous Kato was.&amp;quot; The Green Hornet&amp;#039;s other famous sidekick is his car, Black Beauty\u2014a 1965 Chrysler Imperial equipped with Gatling guns, tire shredders and other awesome weapons. &amp;quot;The Black Beauty is very rad,&amp;quot; says Rogen, who drives a Lexus hybrid in real life. &amp;quot;It took a lot to end up with the original car\u2014lots of companies put in bids, and we had to convince the studio to turn down millions of dollars to go with [the original]. And I&amp;#039;m glad we did, because it&amp;#039;s a kick-ass car.&amp;quot;  The film, directed by Michel Gonry (who told Popular Mechanics at a party for the movie that he&amp;#039;s not a fan of cars unless they&amp;#039;re remote-controlled), will also be converted to 3D. &amp;quot;The very first visual conversation we had about the movie was the 3D one,&amp;quot; Rogen says. &amp;quot;A lot of the ways we shot the action sequences and the fights, we were hoping we&amp;#039;d get the money to do it.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The last thing we want is bad 3D,&amp;quot; Moritz says. &amp;quot;We went to experts to find out how long it would take us to get really good 3D. That&amp;#039;s part of the reason we moved our release date back.&amp;quot;  Drive Angry 3D       Release Date: Feb. 11, 2010 Forget Nicolas Cage\u2014the real stars of Drive Angry 3D are the cars. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a fan of &amp;#039;70s car movies,&amp;quot; says director Patrick Lussier. &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t have CG cars\u2014these are real cars. The car flying off the bridge is a real car!&amp;quot;  Drive Angry was conceived in 3D and shot with the latest in stereoscopic technology, but it proved to be a challenge for filmmakers. &amp;quot;We had to make sure that the 3D cameras could be stabilized as we were flying down the highway at 70 mph chasing Nic Cage, who is an amazing driver and very hard to keep up with,&amp;quot; Lussier says.  Cage worked with stunt coordinator Johnny Martin, whom he last collaborated with on Gone in 60 Seconds, on the driving sequences. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s no secret that I like to drive, and drive fast,&amp;quot; Cage says. &amp;quot;The difference here is that I&amp;#039;m okay when I&amp;#039;m driving alone, but it&amp;#039;s when I have various stunt people on the hood of the car and I&amp;#039;m driving at 80, 90, 100 mph that I get a little nervous. My adrenaline was definitely up.&amp;quot;  Sucker Punch       Release Date: March 2011 What do robots, dragons and WWII fighter planes have in common? They&amp;#039;re all key players in Zack Snyder&amp;#039;s girl-power action flick Sucker Punch, starring Emily Browning as a girl banished to a mental facility who envisions an alternate reality to help her cope\u2014and come up with a way to escape. Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens and Carla Gugino also star. &amp;quot;We trained for three months before we started filming,&amp;quot; Browning says. &amp;quot;We did martial arts, gun training and sword fighting, and we also did a lot of physical strength training with scary Navy SEALS.&amp;quot; During the press conference at Comic Con, Hudgens says she was blown away by the footage, which she was seeing for the first time. &amp;quot;There are scenes where I&amp;#039;m shooting at this dragon,&amp;quot; she says, &amp;quot;and I&amp;#039;m, like, shooting and screaming at these little balls on the green screen. And just seeing it today\u2014it totally blows me away.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s a method to Snyder&amp;#039;s over-the-top madness. &amp;quot;Movies are a visual experience,&amp;quot; Snyder says. &amp;quot;I tend to like it all the way, all the time. I think that in every aspect of the film, we tried to do something that was striking.&amp;quot;  Battle: Los Angeles       Release Date: March 11, 2011 When actor Aaron Eckhart met with Jonathan Liebesman to discuss starring in an urban alien-invasion movie, the director pulled up YouTube video of Marines fighting in Fallujia. &amp;quot;He said, &amp;#039;That&amp;#039;s what I want the movie to be like,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Eckhart remembers. &amp;quot;I said, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m in.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; In Battle: Los Angeles, aliens have invaded Earth. But rather than getting the global view \u00E0 la Independence Day, &amp;quot;the movie really is about one Marine battalion&amp;#039;s point of view of a worldwide invasion,&amp;quot; says producer Neil H. Moritz. &amp;quot;When you watch the movie, you feel like you&amp;#039;re in a real war against the aliens.&amp;quot; Filmmakers had Marines on set to make sure what they were portraying was correct, and Eckhart\u2014who plays a staff sergeant about to retire\u2014went to boot camp with other actors for three weeks at Camp Pendelton. &amp;quot;We learned our weapons together, ate together, showered together,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;To this day, if I saw one of those guys, I&amp;#039;d probably call him by his character&amp;#039;s name. All the Marines, we really wanted to get it exactly right for them. We wanted to honor them. And I feel like we did.&amp;quot; It wasn&amp;#039;t just important to get the human military&amp;#039;s details right; Liebesman also wanted that same level of authenticity for the invading alien army. &amp;quot;The aliens had to feel like a real army,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;That was important to us.&amp;quot; Also important was making the creatures feel like something you hadn&amp;#039;t seen before. &amp;quot;We wanted to have aliens that harken back to what you would have seen in Roswell, but with a believable militaristic vibe.&amp;quot;  Thor       Release Date: May 6, 2011 Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is a jerk. So much so that his father, Odin (Anthony Hopkins), kicks him out of Asgard and sends him to Earth. In the footage shown during Marvel&amp;#039;s panel at Comic Con, Thor opens his eyes and intones: &amp;quot;Oh, no. This is Earth, isn&amp;#039;t it?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;At the beginning of this film, he&amp;#039;s a brash, cocky warrior,&amp;quot; says Hemsworth. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s about to inherit the keys to the kingdom. His father thinks, You know what, he&amp;#039;s not ready. It&amp;#039;s the journey of him learning some humility.&amp;quot; Thor is discovered and befriended by scientist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman). Though Portman had never read the Thor comic books, she quickly got up to speed for the film. &amp;quot;My character is working on this theory of connecting dimensions,&amp;quot; Portman says. &amp;quot;There was an Einstein theory, a long time ago, where you could connect dimensions through the warping of time and space. And Thor obviously comes from another dimension. So he is this missing piece to her scientific inquiry. And everybody thinks she&amp;#039;s on the fringe of science, that she&amp;#039;s a kook. And this is her opportunity to prove herself.&amp;quot; Like Portman, director Kenneth Branagh had not been well versed in the Thor comic books\u2014or any comic books, for that matter\u2014when he took on the film. &amp;quot;But I loved what this kind of story represented,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I loved its epic scale, I loved the color, and I liked the grandeur of it, and I liked the fact that it traveled against space. I liked the blood and guts of it.&amp;quot;  Thor&amp;#039;s scale gave him license to push the visual-effects envelope\u2014after all, the warrior travels through time and space from another dimension\u2014but he was also concerned with keeping the film grounded in reality. &amp;quot;We just decided each time we would take seriously the idea of violence and military training and the fitness for being a king,&amp;quot; Branagh says. &amp;quot;Every time, we basically went back and tried to investigate what&amp;#039;s the reality of this and how do we present it in this world?&amp;quot;  The Green Lantern       Release Date: June 17, 2011 When the Green Lantern suit made its debut on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, it received mixed reviews. The twist is that the suit doesn&amp;#039;t actually exist: It&amp;#039;s computer generated. Ryan Reynolds, who plays Hal Jordan\u2014a test pilot who is given a ring that grants him special powers\u2014must wear a motion-capture unitard while filming, which animators will later replace with the Green Lantern suit.  Reynolds isn&amp;#039;t a fan of his wardrobe. &amp;quot;They managed to find a material that most would agree is the most aggravating substance on Earth,&amp;quot; Reynolds says. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re shooting in Louisiana, which is pretty close to the sun in terms of the hottest place you can find anywhere around. It&amp;#039;s been a little bit difficult running around in a unitard in the New Orleans high summer heat.&amp;quot; Lantern also stars Blake Lively as Carol Ferris, a former test pilot, businesswoman and Jordan&amp;#039;s love interest. Though she didn&amp;#039;t have many stunts, Lively says she did do some work in a rig built for The Matrix. &amp;quot;I think it goes about 20 feet high, but I like to say 50, so please spread that rumor because it makes me feel cooler,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m in this gyroscopic waist belt that moves with your weight, and it makes you very nauseous, and you just spin in every which direction. That was about the extent of my stuntwork.&amp;quot;  In the comics, Ferris turns into villain Star Sapphire, but there&amp;#039;s no word yet if that will happen in this film. But Jordan will face off against evil alien Sinestro (Mark Strong), whose ring uses fear to create power, and Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard), the son of a former astronaut who obtains his powers when examining a dead alien.  For his part, Reynolds is excited to take on the mantle of the Green Lantern\u2014he even recited the oath to the geeks assembled in Hall H. &amp;quot;[Jordan is] a bit of a fractured human being,&amp;quot; Reynolds says. &amp;quot;He has watched his father die, and we move on to find him a little bit later in life, and he&amp;#039;s kind of arrogant, cocky and aimless. It&amp;#039;s this extraordinary power that&amp;#039;s bestowed upon him that sets him upon a humbler path.&amp;quot;  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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