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UPDATE – February 09 2010 – We have a buyer!

Get the inside info from Deadline Hollywood!

What would you do with Terminator?

Firstly, let me say that im aware that this story broke a few weeks back – ive been unable to post for a variety of rather dull reasons that i won’t bore you with here.

Anyway, back to the matter in hand – and it seems that the Terminator franchise is up for sale again. If you have a spare $60m lying  around then i would say that it could be a seriously good investment (i could probably stretch to a £100 or so). The maths seem to be relatively simple, even for a dunce like me:

Terminator Salvation  -

• Total production costs =  $200m
• Total worldwide gross = $371m
• Profit = $171m

Thats before the DVD versions have even been released. Not too shabby im sure you’ll agree.

You can read about all the legal shenanigans behind the rights over at the original LA Times article.

The big question is for the new owners though is – what the chuff do we do with this franchise? It obviously has a huge fanbase, there are literally millions of Terminator devotees out there. But where do we go after Salvation?, which although it had a lukewarm critical reception to say the least, has proved to be a box-office success. We wish any of the new owners luck with their decision – meanwhile i think ill leave the final word to The Guardian who pretty much summed up my feelings on the matter:

Give us a relentless Terminator destroying everything in its path in order to track down and eliminate a hero or heroine we actually care about, and the chances are we’ll flock to see the movie.

What would you do if you controlled the Terminator franchise? Sack McG? Do everything to get Arnie back on board? Bring back Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton and Robert Patrick? or do a Re-Boot of the Re-Boot? Let us know you’re thoughts. IGN have some pretty interesting thoughts on all this…………

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November the 23rd for Terminator Salvation Blu-Ra

There’s not a huge amount of info available on the DVD version, but according to Amazon, the Terminator Salvation [Blu-ray] will contain the following goodies!

• “Re-Forging the Future” – Go behind the scenes of Terminator Salvation with an exclusive set tour.
• “The Moto-Terminator” – See how the Terminator Salvation visual effects crew and Ducati partnered to create the slick and deadly Moto-Terminator!
• Maximum Movie Mode featuring director McG deconstructing the film’s key moments.
• Picture (PiP) commentary with cast and crew interviews, storyboards, still galleries, timeline and more!
• Plus, 11 mini featurette focus points spotlighting how the ground-breaking special effects were created!

BD LIVE Content Includes:
• “Resist Or Be Terminated” Tech Com videos (nine viral videos from the theatrical campaign and four new videos from the Home Entertainment campaign)
• “The Final Resistance” video – access the secret plans of Skynet
• CINECHAT – BD-Live technology that lets viewers around the world chat live about this, or any other CINECHAT enabled BD disc, from Sony Pictures International Home Entertainment!

Hopefully there’s something of interest there. Despite our criticisms of the movie – being Terminator Merch-Hoarders -we’ll still be buying it!

UPDATE – Despite some reports that the DVD/Blu-Ray will be delayed until December, Amazon still have the release date as November 23rd – we’ll keep an eye on it and let you know what’s happening.

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This review is a month late so i’ll skip all the plot details and stuff and just cut to the chase here i think:

Terminator Salvation is the worst film in the series.

Yes, this was my conclusion after watching the film this week. Im left wondering what film the positive reviewers from the previous post watched because it certainly couldn’t have been this mess.

I apologise to all the Terminator fans out there who were looking forward to this film (and may even have enjoyed it). You may feel im being a little over-critical, but really, i think we just have to face the fact that this film just isn’t good enough, and this will be bourne out in the passage of time.

Spoilers ahead obviously……….

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Firstly an apology: I still haven’t seen Salvation yet!

Sorry to all the readers out there who are desperately waiting for my review of Terminator Salvation (and some fresh blog posts), but im afraid that my pesky ‘real life’ has taken over in the last couple of weeks and i haven’t managed to see it yet. Im intending to hit my local cinema this weekend. I was hoping to catch an IMAX screening but it appears that my local (Glasgow Science Centre) is showing Star Trek, with Harry Potter and Transformers 2 on the horizon – so it looks like Terminator may not appear so theres no point waiting!

Anyway, in the meantime ive been scanning cyberspace looking at the various Terminator Salvation reviews that have been coming in, and they are a mixed bag to say the least. Here are some examples of the basic camps that each review is falling into…….

It was great!

• Empire Online gave the movie a healthy 4/5 – “McG has sparked a moribund franchise back to life”.
• NME like it alot – “Salvation’ can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the other movies in the series“
• Miami Herald were also keen – “Terminator Salvation belongs to Australian actor Sam Worthington“

It wasn’t that bad – but not great either

• LOUDREAMS thought it was OK – “a great deal of action and stunning visual effects“
• Sky Movies also had a lukewarm review – “Salvation undoubtedly has more to offer than 2003’s makeweight third chapter“
• Total Film though it was alright – “The Terminator story recharges with a post-apocalyptic jolt of energy“
• Adrian James liked it a bit – “Its far from perfect, but its not the horrible film people have made it out to be“
• SciFi Now gave it 3/5 – “…..with only a few compromises made, Terminator Salvation wins the battle to meet expectation“

It’s possibly one of the worst films ever made!

• Screenhead weren’t convinced – “Big Budget fan fiction“
• Time Out were also pretty offended – “a disappointment of ‘Phantom Menace’ proportions” – oh dear.
• The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw gave it 1/5 – “It couldn’t be worse than this” – ouch,
• …and last but not least, BBC critic Mark Kermode (whom im a big fan of), ripped into it on his blog………

Blimey!

Anyway, the upshot of all this is that i don’t really know what to expect. Guess ill just have to see for myself. My Terminator Salvation Review will be up as soon as possible (promise).

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Well, here at Terminator Film Blog we have to wait along with all the ‘normal’ people out there to catch Terminator Salvation when it is released next week. Obviously when we do our review will be the definitive opinion on the movie (stop laughing at the back). However, The American trade press have been lucky enough to see early screenings of the movie and their reviews have been published. The news is well…………you’ll just have to read for yourselves!

Here are a selection of the first Terminator Salvation reviews to appear, beware of some major spoilers obviously:

• Variety
• Hollywood Reporter
• NY Mag
• College Times

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In what is probably the first in a prospective slew of material to be published in the run-up to the release of Terminator Salvation, technology blog/magazine Wired has published series of pretty great Terminator-related articles. Although they have stolen a couple of neat ideas that i had brewing for posts on this blog, i thought that it is only fair to point you in their direction – mainly becasue the Wired Blog is written about twenty times better than i could possibly manage – buy anyway, you say – what has Wired got that so great?, well……..

• It’s back – Why the Terminator is Unstoppable – A neat explination of why we all love the Terminator universe so much, plus a bonus column on why “Rise of the Machines” isn’t actually all that bad!
• Terminator creator James Cameron on the origins of Terminator – In a move that has sickened us here at the Terminator Film Blog, Wired have nabbed an exclusive from under our noses (ha!), and managed to talk to the main man himself, James Cameron about the initial conception of the Terminator franchise, interesting stuff.
• The Evolution of a killer franchise – The Terminator (1984-????) – does what it says on the tin – a look back at the major events in the history of the series from 1984 to the future.
• The Terminator as a metaphor for life – Sarah Connor Chronicles creator Josh Friedman explains his thoughts and motivations on Terminator.

There we go, plently of reading material for sure. Enjoy. Now im off to work on some original ideas for posts – Thanks Wired!

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