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'Terminator' producers file for bankruptcy, creditors include Ba...
The producers of "Terminator Salvation" have filed for bankruptcy and their list of creditors is a veritable "who's who" of Hollywood. Just a day after the duo sued their investors for allegedly pushing them into a series of bad business......
Why Terminator Salvation Isn't a Terminator Film
Terminator Salvation is a great action flick, it just isn't a great Terminator movie. In fact, Salvation really doesn't fit in with the rest of the series. Here's why......
'Museum' conquers 'Terminator' in U.S.
Twentieth Century Fox's sequel Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian won the domestic war against Warner Bros.' reboot Terminator: Salvation at the holiday box office....
'Museum' edges 'Terminator' Friday
In a box office face-off between a family and a male-demo sequel, Fox's PG rated Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian took the first Friday of the Memorial Day frame with an estimated $15.3 million while Warner Bros.' franchise actioner Terminator Salvation followed with $14.9 million....
'Terminator' takes $13.37 million
Terminator Salvation has launched with $13.37 million at 3,480 playdates as the fourth version of the franchise dominated Thursday's domestic moviegoing....
'Terminator' almost didn't have Bale - CNN.com
Terminator Salvation" is a sequel that almost had a different cast. "I didn't want to take this on. I thought a fourth movie ... who needs it? The story's already been told and I'm not really interested in doing that," said director McG. "Then I heard that the story was about the future man versus machine and that sort of piqued my interest."...
'Terminator Salvation' nabs $3 million for midnight screening
Midnight screenings of Terminator Salvation have brought in an estimated $3 million in an early start to the Memorial Day weekend box office....
Terminator movie gets motion-activated theater seats, giving new...
Terminator movie gets motion-activated theater seats, giving new meaning to the term 'movie'....
Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series Explores Online as Th...
Burbank, Calif., May 19, 2009 - Halcyon Games, a division of The Halcyon Company along with Warner Premiere and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution today announced the first full length Machinima series titled "Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series." Produced in association with McG, director of "Terminator Salvation," and Machinima Inc., this six part series utilizes real time computer animat...
Variety's Analysis Of The Movie Terminator Salvation
Darker, grimmer and more stylistically single-minded than its two relatively giddy predecessors, 'Terminator Salvation' boasts the kind of singular vision that distinguished the James Cameron original, the full-throttle kinetics of 'Speed' and an old-fashioned regard for human (and humanoid) heroics. Only pic's relentlessly doomsday tone -- accessorized by helmer McG's grimy, gun-metal palette -- ...
Terminator Salvation Blu-ray To Contain 30-40 Minutes of Deleted...
Collider recently spoke with film director McG about the upcoming "Terminator Salvation" film and Blu-ray release. McG stated that the Blu-ray will have between 30 and 40 minutes of deleted scenes. McG also revealed that included in the deleted scenes will be the alternate ending of the film.
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McG: 'We're bringing credibility back' to 'Terminator' franchise
I dropped by the Sunset Boulevard office of director McG yesterday to chat about "Terminator Salvation." I asked him about the late addition of a digitial-image cameo by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie but he just grinned....
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Since 1984, the Terminator franchise has teased us about the war in the future, the war after Judgment Day. Now in 2009, McG and Warner Bros bring that war to light with Terminator: Salvation – where adult John Connor (played by Christian Bale) attempts to organize a human resistance force which could prove to be humankind's last true hope for survival in the war against their intelligent robot overlords.
Is this on par with Terminator or Terminator 2 Judgment Day? Absolutely not. However given the absence of the series lead (aside from a small cameo), McG created a film set in post apolocalyptic terminator world the best he could -- he achieved this with a few great elements.
The first element is the cast. Instead of settling for "average" or just "above average" actors, McG set out to get the best he could. Christian Bale is perfect as the grown up John Connor, and Sam Worthington makes the absence of Arnold Schwarzenegger a little better. The rest of the supporting cast, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Helena Boham Carter, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Michael Ironside help flesh out the world beautifully.
The second element (and in my opinion the one that helped the movie the most) is that McG remembered what made the series the way it is today. McG, like a good student, studied Jim Cameron's work, and made sure that he did everything possible to pay tribute and also follow the story of the first two films (unlike a certain director did in Terminator 3).
Finally McG added a great style to Terminator Salvation. Aside from the great action scenes, and "Road Warrior" typesetting, McG let these great actors give their best performances they could; in fact, things were so tense on set at times they led to certain…flair ups that will remain unnamed. If you are really interested just google Christian Bale Terminator Salvation Blow Up.
After Terminator 3, it seemed all hope was lost for the Terminator franchise, and no one except Jim Cameron himself could save it. Luckily McG has a lot of passion and studied Jim's work to at least make a film worthy of being part of the Terminator saga.
Continued below is just a small list of some of the great nods that McG gives to the original films.
Nods to the James Cameron Terminator films:
- Title Credits at the beginning
- Ghetto blaster blaring You Could Be Mine by Guns ‘N Roses
- Factory setting and certain camera angels in final climatic battle
- "No Fate But What We Make" phrase
- Arnold inside the "terminator factory"
- "I'll Be Back" Catch Phrase
- "Come With Me If You Want To Live" catch phrase
- 18 Wheeler Action Scene
- Heating then cooling of a terminator
- Terminator factory from Terminator 2: Judgement Day trailer
- John Connor's scars scene in the beginning future battle of Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Motorcycle jumping off over-ramp
- Reese flipping a shotgun
- Reese learning how to attach a sawed off shotgun to his arm
--Nathan M Rose
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Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
In the fourth installment of the Terminator series, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the eventual leader of mankind's fight againts the machines. The setting is 2018, focusing on the war between the humans and the computer network Skynet. Anton Yelchin co-stars as soldier Kyle Reese, and Sam Worthington appears as new terminator Marcus Wright.
