George Clooney is looking to the future:"Ten years from now, I imagine people will be fairly sick of seeing a lot of us who are on camera now," he recently told Reuters. It's one of the reasons, he says at least jokingly, he'll be directing more. He's not alone. For whatever reason, more and more actors are moving to the other side of the camera.

The problem, says Shootout co-host Peter Bart, is that actors don't always make good directors. They're too self-indulgent, too focused on performance, too cerebral, too unproductive, and in the case of Chris Rock, he says, "too talentless." He may have a point: Rock might be a superstar, but his film I Think I Love My Wife failed spectacularly. "Under director Rock, actor Rock doesn't possess quite the chops to pull off this character," wrote Variety critic Brian Lowry.

Shootout co-host Peter Guber knows first hand how Comic-Con can make or break a movie. When he produced Tim Burton's Batman in 1989, there was a negative buzz about Michael Keaton playing the iconic comic book hero. "They thought 'Oh my god, what will happen with that character?'" he recalls. But when Tim Burton showed some clips at the Con, he says, "it changed everything." Suddenly fans were behind the film, and before The Dark Knight came along, it was the highest grossing film in the Batman franchise.

"This is where the viral marketing starts," says Guber. So, now that it's over, what films are Comic-Con bloggers excited about?