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Moon Bloodgood’s topless scene from Terminator Salvation

Liam — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:53:59 +0000

During the months leading up to Terminator Salvation’s release director McG revealed that a scene involving a topless Moon Bloodgood in the rain had been filmed, but there was a chance it wouldn’t make the final cut as they wanted to keep a PG-13 rating. Bloodgood herself described the scene as “a beautiful shot” and under the circumstances her character was in it wasn’t gratuitous, saying “Did you ever just want to get naked and connect to someone? Imagine the world is coming to an end and you just want to connect with someone and you’re like, ‘I don’t care.’”

Well the scene didn’t make it into the film, but it will be on the DVD as a deleted scene. It can also be seen below:

[Contains minor boobage]

Terminator rights up for sale

Liam — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:26:42 +0000

Back in 2007 producers Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek bought the rights to the Terminator franchise for $25 million. This was a bit of surprise because they hadn’t really done anything, apart from a movie called Cook-Off! which they starred in themselves. They then made Terminator Salvation which wasn’t a bad movie, although it could have been better. It wasn’t really a flop as it made $370+ million worldwide, although it should have made more than $125 million in the US.

Now according to the L.A Times the Terminator rights will be trading hands once again.

Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek, who acquired the science-fiction franchise in 2007 for $25 million and produced this year’s sequel “Terminator Salvation,” are now looking to sell them partially or outright as several companies owned by the duo work their way through bankruptcy.
Anderson and Kubicek’s Halcyon Holding Group has engaged financial advisory firm FTI Capital Advisors, pending bankruptcy court approval, to “evaluate strategic alternatives,” according to a statement. Since Halcyon’s only valuable asset is the Terminator rights, any deal would involve an investment in, or outright sale, of them.
A Halcyon spokesperson said that the company will pay back all of its debts in full following a Terminator transaction.

A few months ago director McG was talking about setting Terminator 5 in a pre-Judgment Day 2011, but I doubt there will be another further developments until the rights are sorted out.

Transforminators

Liam — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:39:08 +0000

I like Black20. In the past they have given us PG 300 and Batman vs. Batman vs. Batman, and now we have Transforminators which, as you can probably guess, is a mash-up of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Terminator Salvation. Watch below!

Will Terminator 5 ‘be back’ at Warner Bros?

Liam — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:57:01 +0000

Terminator Salvation will be released later this month by Warner Bros in the US and Sony overseas, however some studio drama may occur regarding who will finance and distribute Terminator 5, which is currently in development.

From Variety:

MGM has a 30-day right of first refusal to finance and distribute the fifth “Terminator” film, a right earned through the settlement of a lawsuit between the studio and Halcyon partners Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson. According to sources, MGM has every intention of making a serious play for the franchise, potentially trumping Warner Bros., which is distributing “Terminator Salvation” in domestic territories, and Sony, which is releasing the film overseas.
The distribution drama promises to be a real cliffhanger that will begin once Halcyon delivers its demands to MGM along with a first draft of the screenplay for the fifth “Terminator.”
“Salvation” was a much riskier prospect then than the fifth “Terminator” is now. At the time, MGM made its decision knowing only that franchise linchpin Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t returning, and the studio had only an early script by “Terminator 3″ scribes John Brancato and Michael Ferris they developed with “T3″ helmer Jonathan Mostow. That script has changed significantly, with uncredited work done by Jonah Nolan, Paul Haggis, Shawn Ryan and Anthony Zuiker. Though Halcyon hasn’t yet set a writer for the fifth film, the prospects are strong because McG is returning as director, and Christian Bale will reprise as John Connor.
The MGM-Halcyon drama may not play out until a year from now, when Kubicek and Anderson get an early script, but the stakes may well be supremacy for summer 2011 or 2012.

As long as a movie is good I don’t really care which studio is behind it, however you have to feel a bit sorry for Warner Bros (even if they do earn billions). First they had the Watchmen/Fox legal battle and now they could lose a potential franchise they set up.

Anton Yelchin and Sam Worthington vs. The Harvester

Liam — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:43:09 +0000

Warner Bros have released a 5 minute featurette which shows a scene involving Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) and Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) taking on The Harvester, or as director McG puts it “The Harvester attacking humanity”. After the clip we go behind the scenes and see how they filmed it. I usually don’t post clips because I think you should watch the film in it’s entirety, rather than watching 20 minutes worth of the film beforehand in clip format, however this is cool and it is sponsored by Pizza Hut. I like pizza.

McG reveals alternate Terminator Salvation ending

Liam — Sun, 10 May 2009 09:25:00 +0000

Earlier this year McG said that he expected the ending of Terminator Salvation would “piss off a lot of people”, and now we know what that ending would have been (it has since been changed).

From io9:

That was at a time when there was a very dark ending. There was a great irony in the way this film shook down. There was this leak that Connor dies and they put Connor’s face on top of the machine body of Marcus. Everybody went, “Booooooo, what’s that?” That’s half of it [the ending]. We had a jet-black ending. Connor dies, we’re in a room with all the people we care about. You take Connor’s likeness, you put it on the living machine of Marcus. He sits up, now looking like Christian Bale, takes a gun, kills Kate, kills Kyle, kills Star, kills everybody, eyes flare red, [snaps] the end.

If this ending was still part of the film I think it would piss off a lot of people. Everyone goes into a movie expecting a happy and fulfilling conclusion, so this would have been a major shock to the system. I quite like it when movies do something different so I would probably enjoyed this ending (despite the murdering).

To see the new ending we’ll have to go and see the film in a few weeks time.

4 minute Terminator Salvation internet trailer

Liam — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:24:00 +0000

If you are the type of person who watches trailers more than once in a given session then I suggest you cancel all the events in your life for the next 24 minutes, as an extended internet trailer for Terminator Salvation has appeared online. It contains lots of new footage and a few spoilers here and there so if you want to remain pure before seeing it in a few weeks steer clear, otherwise watch it in HD below!

McG suspects Terminator 5 is going to take place in a pre-Judgment Day 2011

Liam — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:25:34 +0000

Terminator Salvation takes place in 2018 where Skynet and the machines are running the show. John Connor (Christian Bale) is leading the human resistance who are trying to stay alive and take down Skynet. However, for the sequel McG has suggested that we may see John Connor battling machines in a modern day 2011.

From Film Journal:

“I strongly suspect the next movie is going to take place in a [pre-Judgment Day] 2011,” McG reveals. “John Connor is going to travel back in time and he’s going to have to galvanize the militaries of the world for an impending Skynet invasion. They’ve figured out time travel to the degree where they can send more than one naked entity. So you’re going to have hunter killers and transports and harvesters and everything arriving in our time and Connor fighting back with conventional military warfare, which I think is going to be fucking awesome.
I also think he’s going to meet a scientist that’s going to look a lot like present-day Robert Patrick [who famously played the T-1000 in Terminator 2], talking about stem-cell research and how we can all live as idealized, younger versions of ourselves.”

McG has said in the past that he has a outline for the new trilogy, so this will no doubt be part of the master plan. I wonder where the third film will take place? When you introduce time travel anything is possible. Skynet vs. the dinosaurs anyone?

Batman vs The Terminator

Liam — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:21:51 +0000

Some fanmade videos are crap, where as others are amazing. All I will say is watch this in HD!

Made by silverlightsaber

Since Christian Bale is starring as John Connor in May, I figured I’d make an interesting cross-over between the Terminator franchise and Bale’s other blockbuster franchise, Batman. The Terminator vs Batman, who wins? This was a very difficult crossover to make so I hope you enjoy it.

Arnie talks about his possible Terminator Salvation cameo

Liam — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:53:50 +0000

Since filming on Terminator Salvation began people have been speculating as to whether Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger would be making an appearance. Last April he said he would be interested if they film in California, but since then we’ve been hearing about bodybuilder lookalikes being used and director McG has made comments about ILM pushing special effects to the limit and that he doesn’t want “today’s Arnold Schwarzenegger.” Now Arnie himself has spoken, and all the hints seem to be making sense now.

From AICN: [spoilers]

Right now, they’re looking at the technology and see if it is possible to create a technology where they can use my image in the film without me actually filming, because I made it clear I don’t have the time… and if they shoot outside the state, I would not participate… But I would be willing to be in the movie if they get the technology together. We have a great relationship with the people making the movie.. McG is the director, he’s a terrific talented guy. I’m going to be at the premiere, I told him I want to be as supportive as possible.
I think that within the next week or so, we will see if they are technologically able to do that. It’s terrific because they basically take technology out of Terminator 1 and use that walk of mine, and somehow bring it in… it’s just a brief scene, where we see one of the leads run into a room and he sees the future terminators because it’s kind of a prequel… then he gets thrown around, then he goes in another room and there’s other terminators, so there’s supposed to be all these new terminators. I think it’s cool to continue on with the franchise, and in case I want to jump over again and get into the acting when we’re through here.

This would be cool if it were to happen. Add the fact that Linda Hamilton will be lending her voice, and it looks like we may have a kick-ass Terminator movie on our hands!