<P> Produced by Michael Bay, I Am Number Four was the first film production from DreamWorks Pictures to be released by Touchstone Pictures, as part of the studio's 2009 distribution deal with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures . The Hollywood Reporter estimated the budget to be between $50 million and $60 million . The film was released in both conventional and IMAX theatres on February 18, 2011, received generally negative reviews, and grossed $150 million . </P> <P> John Smith is an alien from the planet Lorien . He was sent to Earth as a child with eight others to escape the invading Mogadorians, who destroyed Lorien . Here, John is protected by a Guardian, Henri, and has developed powers, including enhanced strength, speed and agility, telekinesis and the power to transmit plasma light through his hands . </P> <P> The Mogadorians, led by the Commander learn about the nine children and come to Earth to find them . The Loriens can only be killed in sequence; Number One through Number Nine, though, and three of them are already dead, with John being Number Four . Knowing this, he and Henri move from a beachside bungalow in Florida to an old farm in Paradise, Ohio, where John befriends conspiracy theorist Sam Goode and a dog which he names Bernie Kosar . He also falls for an amateur photographer, Sarah Hart . Her ex-boyfriend, football player Mark James is a bully who torments both John and Sam . </P> <P> During the Spring Fair, Mark and his friends chase Sarah and John into the woods, where they try to beat John up . However, he uses his powers to fend them off and rescue Sarah . Sam witnesses this and how he had used his powers . John reveals his true origins to Sam . The next day, Mark's father, the local sheriff, interrogates Henri on John's whereabouts when his son and his friends were attacked . </P>

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