Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 3
Terminator Salvation hasn't hit theaters yet, but producers are already plotting a fifth flick in the robot apocalypse franchise.
Halycon Co.'s David Anderson and Victor Kubicek, who purchased the series last year to start a trilogy re-boot, are developing the film with McG, who directed Salvation, Variety reports.
"We feel the time is now to start shaping the next part of this," Kubicek said, adding that ...
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Stan Winston by Eric Charbonneau/WireImage.com
Stan Winston a four-time Oscar winner for his groundbreaking special effects wizardy died on Sunday after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma He was 62 A pioneer in the craft of combining live-action with computer imaging Winstons memorable creations and contributions to cinematic lore include Jurassic Park dinosaurs Aliens and Terminators The entertainment industry has lost a genius and I lost one of my best friends California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says in a statement cited by the AP Stans work will live on forever Wintons recent projects included Iron Man Terminator Salvation The Future Begins GI Joe and James Camerons Avatar Think back Which of Winstons creations most made you sit in the theater with jaw agape and think Weve hit a crazy new level of special effects Matt Mitovich
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Moon Bloodgood by Mitchell Haaseth/NBC Photo
Moon Bloodgood may be heating things up as the latest addition to the cast of Terminator Salvation The Future Begins The Journeyman star is in final negotiations says the Reporter to play the female lead in the upcoming film which will be the fourth in the franchiseIf the deal does close Bloodgood will play a tough drama-free and battle-hardened not that Id expect anything less member of the Resistance who will probably save the world and look amazing at the same time Previously cast actors include Christian Bale Sam Worthington and Anton Yelchin The film is due out in summer 2009 Can you picture Bloodgood fighting killing machines Most of us would probably watch her do anything but give us your take anyway Anna Dimond
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Ask FlickChick Aliens in Love The Sarah Connor Chronicles an Italian Cinderella and more movie answersQuestion I know this isnt strictly speaking a movie question but I thought you might know the answer anyway In the third episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles theres a terminator thats putting together a whole terminator factory and theres a company truck with a Japanese name is it a reference to something in the movies And is the story Sarah keeps talking about from a movie it sounds kind of familiar to me Thanks GregFlichChick The name on the truck is Tetsuo and its not an allusion to the Terminator movies Its sort of an in-joke a sly reference to a bizarre Japanese movie called Tetsuo The Iron Man 1989 about a man who begins finding scraps of metal growing out of his body and is gradually transformed into a perverse human-machine hybridThe story Sarah talks about is a Jewish folktale in which a rabbi builds an artificial man a
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Question: When I first heard they were making a TV show based on the Terminator films, I was reluctant to get excited. It seems my reluctance was well-founded. The show is totally uneven. I know they can't do as much on TV as they can in a film, but I know for sure that TV can do much better than this. First of all, the acting is sub par at best. Summer Glau, whom I loved in Firefly, hasn't exactly won me over as the new Terminatrix. In fact, and I can't believe I'm saying this, she's actually giving me newfound respect for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lena Headey is definitely not on par with Linda Hamilton. I would even go so far as to say that the character of Sarah Connor seems like a totally different person (though the writing may be equally to blame for this). Thomas Dekker is the only bright spot so far, and that isn't saying much. It almost seems like they just threw a cast (and the show) together all willy-nilly and simply assumed it would be successful just because it was based on ...
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Summer Glau, Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker and Richard T. Jones/Fox
Thomas Dekker is in heaven, and not just because hundreds of people have lined up for a screening of his new Fox series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (premiering Jan. 13). "That's the Borg Queen from Star Trek," he says, pointing at a replica of the grayish lady standing in the corner of the Golden Apple comic store on Los Angeles' Melrose Avenue, which hosted the sneak preview. Dekker has every reason to be excited about his show, as his is one of the few that will air original content this spring. And so excited are his fans that some flew from Virginia to L.A. this past Saturday to see the cast and get a signed poster.Sarah Connor Chronicles picks up after the events of Terminator 2, and benefits from having T3's James Middleton as a producer. James Cameron, who brought Ahnuld's time-traveling cyborg to life, is not involved in the small-screen adaptation, but he merits an "obvious homage," Dekker says, in the form of a pivotal new character named Cameron (played by Fi...
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Christian Bale by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
According to the Reporter, Batman frontman Christian Bale is in talks to join another boffo franchise, playing a grown-up John Connor in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. (Hey, I think Phantom Menace just lost the honor of worst film title ever.)Bale is currently lensing the Batman Begins follow-up The Dark Knight; McG (Charlie's Angels) is in negotiations to direct this latest Terminator trip.
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Question: After reading your column last week, I am wondering why people are so passionate in their dislike for Bionic Woman. I've watched the first two episodes. Do I love the show? Not really, but my expectations are not for it to become a new Lost or Heroes. I'm in it for the brainless entertainment. And though its storytelling is disjointed and it has plenty of eye-rolling moments, the entertainment factor is there. I'd actually like to see a bit more of some Superman-like moments: a seemingly ordinary woman with incredible strength who can prevent everyday tragedies in between "saving the world"-type stuff. I don't think they've developed her action moments to the fullest. She needs some Buffy-level confidence but with Terminator seriousness. But it seems people want to hate the show and condemn NBC for seeing it through. What could it hurt? There's enough fodder for everyone else to watch in the meantime.
Answer: While it may be too early to give up on the show just yet — given
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Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker in The Sarah Connor Chronicles by Joe Viles/Fox
With the Fox network, it's often all about the mid-season, the time when shows like American Idol and 24 come along to rescue the network from its fall doldrums. Not that it's impossible for any of Fox's September newcomers to catch on. The Kelsey Grammer/Patricia Heaton sitcom Back to You looks very commercial. The situation is admittedly tougher for the downbeat New Orleans crime drama K-Ville or the murky supernatural crime drama New Amsterdam (about an immortal detective) to buck the odds and be a factor come January. While it's possible one or both may hit its mark, you can't help but feel that they might as well be titled "Placeholder 1" and "Placeholder 2" (shades of last fall's Vanished, Justice and Standoff).Once again, Fox is holding back one of its biggest guns (literally) for January. Easily the most anticipated show on the network's lineup is The Sarah Connor Chronicles (look for the word Terminator to be added to the title before it premieres): a high-octane, big-budge...
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La Jetee courtesy Criterion Collection
Could La Jete -- the original Twelve Monkeys -- just be the most perfect science fiction film ever madeSend your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkThis is the shortest movie Ill ever feature in DVD Tuesday and its the ultimate vindication of the saying that good things come in small packages Chris Markers 28-minute 1963 science-fiction jewel La Jete which Terry Gilliam reworked into the film many fans consider his masterpiece Twelve Monkeys 1995 La Jete is also the most unconventional film Ive featured to date Its composed almost entirely of black-and-white still images and has no sync sound just a narrator Its Markers only fiction film And its mesmerizing thought-provoking and utterly haunting I like Twelve Monkeys but I love La Jete It begins in Orly airport where a boy on a family day-trip to watch planes take off instead sees a commotion on the ground Allo
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