Terminator Saved For Now

[CaptainZombie]

'Terminator' Bidding War Comes to Abrupt and Shocking End

The future has been saved -- for now. Last week it was reported that both Sony and Lionsgate were in a heated bidding war to score the rights to Terminator, with newly revealed plans to reboot the franchise (oh come on!). Thankfully, they both lost out when "Halcyon Holding Corp accepted the $29.5 million bid from, of all parties, the debtholder which pushed it [the franchise] into bankruptcy, Santa Barbara-based hedge fund Pacificor. (This is the same Pacificor whom Halcyon accused in a lawsuit of extortion, bribery, and fraud and demanded $30M in damages.)," reports Deadline. My favorite part of the article states: "I'm told, prompted a furious Sony Pictures Entertainment's president of worldwide affairs Peter Schlessel to "storm out" of the Downtown LA offices of FTI Capital Advisors holding the auction." I'd be pissed too! Hopefully this will at least keep the franchise from being rebooted -- but we all know that it's inevitable and will be in 3-D.

[Adam Dayton]

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The last thing this franchise needs is another bad movie. Should have stopped after 2. No Cameron= sucks.

[Beantown]

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The last thing this franchise needs is another bad movie. Should have stopped after 2. No Cameron= sucks.

Wouldn't say it was a "good movie" but Salvation was entertaining, at least.

[Jonesy]

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Yeah Salvation was decent imo, not as good as the first 2 but much better than 3 anyway.

[snepp]

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Yeah Salvation was decent imo, not as good as the first 2 but much better than 3 anyway.

Sums it up for me. Number 3 should just be completely aborted from film history.

[bkfount]

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The franchise has been driven into the ground, and the story is so incredibly convoluted that it doesn't make any sense anymore. The tv series had potential, but no one gave a damn, because the franchise is tired.

I hate this franchise, except for the first two movies, and that old 3d ride. The T-10000000000000 was badass.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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Yeah Salvation was decent imo, not as good as the first 2 but much better than 3 anyway.

Salvation will always have infinite rewatch value for me because the bluray has the best audio (by a sizable margin) of any bluray I've ever heard. The sound is a storyline in itself as it made it for me an instant classic because I will never tire of watching it because of that audio. It's like my Saving private Ryan DTS DVD. Watching the opening and closing battle scenes never gets tiresome because of that DTS sound. Can't wait for that SPR bluray to challenge Salvation.

[boomhauertjs]

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I'm a huge fan of the series, so I'm looking forward to more movies. Salvation was good, not great. I was reading an article where McG admits he made mistakes, so hopefully he'll learn from them if he directs another one.
I miss the TV show, even though the 2nd season was very slow.