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Poor Sad Terminator To Go On The Auction Block
8:28AM Richard Rushfield | How the mighty tumble! Just yesterday, Hollywood trembled in awe before the Terminator series; creator of planet-devouring sequels and merchandising. Today, it goes on the auction block like the baggage at some grizzly slave auction. More »
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Come With Ben Stiller If You Want To Live
12:35AM Richard Lawson | That’s the lesson from the ol’ US of A’s big boffo box office Memorial Day weekend, which saw the further ascension of the Stills, as well as screenwriters/Reno: 911! costars Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, who just keep churning out the hits. Poor skull-busting Terminator, a film that seems to be in trouble. More »
‘Terminator: Salvation’ Wants Schwarzenegger For His Head, Not His Body
8:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Not content to be upstaged by a toilet-transforming usurper, Arnold Schwarzenegger recently hit up the set of Terminator: Salvation (above), sparking rumours that director McG will employ an unorthodox method to get the California governor’s face into the movie. According to a tipster for Latino Review, the special FX-filled plan would require little of Schwarzenegger’s time and give him a kickin’ new body in return: More »
Arnold Schwarzenegger Confused by New ‘Terminator’ Footage, Robot Ambiguity
3:25AM Defamer Hollywood | Busy accepting Bollywood paychecks, offering tank rides to children, and occasionally running the state of Colly-fornia, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has somehow carved time into his schedule to screen footage from the upcoming, unessential McG sequel Terminator: Salvation, starring Christian Bale as John Connor (and virtual unknown Sam Worthington as an amnesiac maybe-Terminator). So, does he give the new film a molten steel-dipped “thumbs up”? According to the LAT, not so much: More »
An Earth Overun By Killing Machines And Hurtling Towards The Sun Not As Sci-Fi As You Think!
5:37AM Seth | A peek inside the “Hollywood Science Fiction or Grim Glimpse At Our Own, Apocalyptic Future?” file today reveals two exciting, end-of-the- world-hastening news items seemingly plucked from the stack of scripts on Michael Bay’s nightstand: Scientists have finally nailed how and when the world will end: “The sun will slowly expand into a red giant, pushing the Earth farther out into space, but not far enough.” The good news is that that is almost 8 billion years away. The bad news is that all life on Earth will have been extinguished long before that, as “the slowly expanding sun boils off the oceans and reduces our planet to an uninhabitable cinder.” [Fox News] More »
McG’s ‘Terminator’ Stakes A Spot In The Distant Future
6:09AM Seth | Any plans for Memorial Day weekend 2009? Great! That means you can catch the opening of Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, McG’s utterly essential contribution to the futuristic-robot-killing-machine franchise that keeps on giving. [Variety] The WWE entered into a deal with Fox, giving the studio “a first-look deal” for any project starring one of their wrestlers, and first dibs on John Cena to voice an irascible musk ox in Ice Age: Boot Camp. [Variety] A three-month Chinese government ban on Hollywood product has ended, with a March release set for National Treasure: Book of Secrets and 10,000 B.C., after government censors screened both films to ensure they contained “no fingerprints of that lie-spreading Spielberg-devil.” [Variety] More »
Sam Worthington May Have Seen John Conner
9:13AM Clem Bastow | First there was the news he was set to play every little boy’s favourite undressable meat-head with a confusingly asexual lump between the legs, G.I. Joe.
Now, it looks as though Sam Worthington’s run of Hollywood luck will continue, as James Cameron – who has been directing the Australian actor in sci-fi epic, Avatar – has recommended Worthington to appear in the latest Terminator installment.
“He’s got the weight, he’s a tough guy – a young Russell Crowe,” Cameron said of the 31-year-old.
Cameron, who directed the first two Terminator movies, is said to have recommended the NIDA graduate for the fourth Terminator movie to director Joseph McGinty Nicol (aka McG).
It was Cameron who took a gamble on two relative unknowns for the $1.8 billion box office earning Titanic – Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio – catapulting them to superstardom.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines took more than $477 million at the worldwide box office when it launched in 2003.
While the Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins storyline is still being kept under wraps, Worthington will play the role of Marcus, a central figure in the three-picture arc that begins after Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust.
Joining him will be Batman Begins and The Prestige star Christian Bale playing John Connor, who struggles to keep the machines from finishing the job.
Hmm, we’re not so sure how we feel about this – in a filmic, sci-fi fan sense, that is.
Sam Worthington and Christian Bale = great news, but McG, director of music videos and, well, feature-length music videos (Charlie’s Angels etc)? More » 
McG Wonders Where All The Killing-Machine Cowboys Have Gone
9:05AM Seth | With the fourth instalment of The Terminator franchise (discounting, of course, that new Fox series Tween Terminator: The Jailbait Killing-Machine Chronicles) in pre-production, director Joseph “McG” McGinty Nichol, still euphoric from landing Christian Bale in the pivotal role of Adult Eddie Furlong, now has some serious, Governator-sized shoes to fill for the sequel’s time-traveling robomercenary. From the213.net interview: (213): Come on, who would be McG’s “dream Terminator”?! More »
Trade Roundup: Christian Bale To Save Humanity From Killer Cyborg To Be Named Later
6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | · Unsatisfied at being the face of just one blockbuster franchise, Dark Knight star Christian Bale is in talks to join the next installment of the about-to-be-revived Terminator franchise. Somewhat disappointingly, he’s coming on as the John Connor character, not the latest iteration of the series’ (nearly) indestructible, killing-obsessed cyborg, which would have been a pretty amazing bit of casting. [Variety] Categories/Tags: Casting, Christian Bale, hollywood strikewatch, Pilots, strikewatch, terminator, Trade Roundup More »
