Comic-Con: 'Batman 3,' Megan Fox gets 'Hex'-y

"I think the next 'Batman' we start shooting next year, so it's at least two years away," Gary Oldman told a Comic-Con audience during a panel for "Book of Eli" Friday morning, adding, "You didn't hear it from me."

That was the biggest piece of news coming out of Warner Bros.' diverse programming Friday at the Con, ranging from the unsullied innocence of childhood to a revamped Freddie Krueger. Here's a rundown of highlights from Hall H.

'Where the Wild Things Are'

- Adorable star Max Records won fans with his innocent line, "I've never done anything like this before, so I might be just reading things off my hand."

- Records then went on to quote author Maurice Sendak: "I talked to Maurice, and he said, 'I really loved this movie and I hope people like it because if not, they can all go straight to hell.'"

- A slew of clips form the Spike Jonze-directed film gave a good impression. Although not overtly scary, there's an occasional melancholy edge to it that balances the amazing characters and landscapes. Just like in the book, childhood and imagination are celebrated without the sugarcoating common to kids and family films these days. Records is winning.

'Book of Eli'

A surpisingly goofy panel considering the badass nature of the postapocalyptic thriller. Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman and Mila Kunis were on hand to answer questions.

- Oldman about his character: "I want this book, an old book, a very important book, a means of absolute power for me ... Eli does not readily want to give it up and part with it up. It's a graphic novel, by a guy named J.C."

- Comic-Con celebrity persona Bob Stencil spoke Russian to Kunis and included his Ramada Inn room number. Her response: "Good to know. I'll see you in an hour."

- Oldman jokes about the fun of working with Washington: "Sometimes we'd do [scenes speaking with] slang African American, sometimes it was English gentlemen, sometims it was thespian ... like good sex."

'A Nightmare on Elm Street'

- This revamp of the Freddy franchise stars Jackie Earle Haley as the sweater-loving, manicured killer. It's not an origin story, but it will show a bit more of Freddy before he gets fired up. Heh.

- "No, [Robert Englund] is not going to make a cameo in this movie." -- producer Brad Fuller

- "I kind of feel as though I'm doing things that are very diverse. The first few things, I played the tortured soul, and now I'm playing the torturing soul." -- Haley

- A trailer for the film shows Katie Cassidy looking familiarly distraught and stressed out a la "Harper's Island" except she's blonde this time.

'The Box'

- Based on the classic short story about a horrible dilemma and its consequences. A woman is offered a box with a red button on top by a stranger with this proposal: Push the button and a) someone the woman doesn't know will die somewhere and b) she'll get $1 million tax-free. James Marsden plays her husband

- Director Richard Kelly intros the 4 1/2-minute clip with a new score by Arcade Fire. They've definitely gone past the six-page short story, and there are strangely fantastical elements to it like free-standing columns of mysterious liquid that can entrap people. Confused? So were we, but in a good way.

- Kelly is all about the 'rents: "I had the most normal upbringing ... maybe that made me write crazy stories. In 'The Box' Cameron and Jimmy are playing versions of my parents ... they spent time with my mom and dad. Cameron does my mom's Texas accent. There's not one swear word in the whole film. It's an old-fashioned suspense film that I think they'd really like. They had introduced me to Alfred Hitchcock and things like that."

- Bob Stencil got to the mic, and what he asked wasn't that important, but he did have some mysterious "There's Something About Mary" goo deliberately hanging out of his ear.

- One lucky lady in the audience won herself a box/button unit because she had the poster taped underneath her seat. Naturally, she pushed the button on stage for the photo op. "You're really screwed now," Kelly told her.

'Jonah Hex'

Based on the DC comics, this Western series stars Josh Brolin as the facially scarred hero and Megan Fox as his corseted main squeeze.

- Fox loves the physicality of action films and encourages her co-stars not to hold back either. "I tell them, 'If you want to smack me or beat my ass, do it if you think it will help.'"

- Fox got the expected male attention, including Bob Stencil asking if she could pretend to be attracted to him just as she pretended to be attracted to the scarred Jonah Hex on screen. Her answer: "Yeah."

- Another fan, who's shtick is holding a shoulder-propped video camera while he's at the mic, asked if Fox was interested in celebrity sex tapes. The audience booed him off.

- "It was a phantasmagoria of insanity." -- Josh Brolin