The year 2010 is shaping up to be the one where the '80s come roaring back. This weekend's release of the Warner Bros. remake Clash of the Titans marks the first of many titles to open this year that originally came to light during the Reagan era.

Others include this month's A Nightmare on Elm Street, the June release of The Karate Kid and the big screen adaptation of '80s TV show The A-Team.
 
This fall, moviegoers will get even more '80s updates with Red Dawn, Predators (of the Predator franchise) and the return of '80s movie icon Gordon Gekko in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
 
Rounding out the year is the December release of Tron Legacy, an update of 1982's Tron.

Other current releases may not be '80s remakes, but they are set during the '80s, or take their inspirations from it. The recent Hot Tub Time Machine was about a group of guys who are transported to 1986, while the title of an indie film set for release this summer, 1981, speaks for itself.
 
In addition, the upcoming Sex and The City 2 features plenty of '80s flashbacks and MacGruber is an homage to the TV show, MacGyver.
 
So what gives? Why all of sudden is it all about the '80s, all the time?
 
"There is now a group of executives, producers and filmmakers in Hollywood who've risen up in the past five years or so who grew up in this time," says Alex Young, a former 20th Century Fox executive who is producing the upcoming The A-Team and executive producing Predators and Wall Street 2. 

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