Oct 30 2009 Moon Bloodgood Wearing Nothing But Rain! And Pants
When McG started making Terminator Salvation, he went in wanting, first and foremost, to correct what he believed was the biggest shortcoming he showed in his work on the Charlie's Angel films: this time, he would see a bare boob. So, the director told Terminator star Moon Bloodgood that rain makes things artistic, and got the actress to take her top off for a few seconds in one rain-drenched shot. The pathetically tame scene was ultimately cut to ensure a PG-13 rating, but of course it's appearing on the DVD to boost sales to the desperately horny. And now it's on internet:
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Jun 5 2009 See Arnold Digitally Fulfilling His Promise to 'Be Back'
With Terminator Salvation getting dismal reviews and less-than-stellar box office, Sony Pictures has decided on the last-ditch effort of showing their entire Termi-hand, and they've released a new television spot that reveals the much talked about cameo by a young, digital Arnold Schwarzenegger head pasted on a bodybuilder Roland Kickinger's frame. If you haven't seen it yet, I think you'll be pretty impressed by how surprisingly convincing it looks. All those years of copy-and-pasting bosses' and teachers' heads onto naked bodies has finally fulfilled itself in a meaningful way:
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Jun 1 2009 'Up' Was Your Favorite Movie Last Weekend
The weekend box office report. Email me for the Excel version.
1. Up - $68.2 million, because Pixar could animate a cockfight and it would still open huge. Especially in Latin America.
2. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - $25.5 million, bringing its total gross to over $100 million and popularizing use of the saying, "It was no night at the museum!", used to refer to nights that did not include exhibits spontaneously gaining consciousness.
3. Drag Me to Hell - Only $16.6 million. Where are all the teenagers taking dates to scary movies so that when the girl cowers in fear against the boy, he can give a sly grin and put his arm around her? Popular media led me to believe that happens constantly.
4. Terminator Salvation - $16.1 million--just enough to save humanity. We did it.
5. Star Trek - $12.8 million in gold-pressed latinum! Get it? Star Trek reference. The guy with the ears always talked about it.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
May 26 2009 'Ben Stiller Battling Cameos in a New Venue' Beats 'Terminators'
Between barbecues and solemn remembrance on this four-day weekend, the following movies were most patronized:
1. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - $70 million, showing a massive outpouring of support for this finale to the Indian in the Cupboard trilogy.
2. Terminator Salvation - $53.8 million. You'd think a powerful partnership with Pizza Hut would have been enough to push the film into first place. It worked so well for reading.
3. Star Trek - $29.4 million, bringing it well within reach of becoming the summer's first $200 million blockbuster. Unless, as I'm predicting, The Soloist really picks up this week.
4. Angels & Demons - $27.7 million, dropping from first to fourth. What a slap in the Hanks.
5. Dance Flick - $13.1 million. There was a time when a horrible, Wayans Brothers-written comedy could have a summer opening at #2. How times have changed since Little Man.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
May 11 2009 Something for Fans of 'Terminator Salvation' and Grease-Soaked Pan Pizzas
Thanks to a partnership between Pizza Hut and Warner Bros. (as a "Hut" rep explained: "Pizza Hut's iconic red Hut may not be as intimidating as the Terminator's red eye, but pizza and movies are time-tested favorites"), the Book-It sponsor has just released a new clip with behind-the-scenes footage from Terminator Salvation.
Director McG introduces it, explaining it's for "Pizza Hut and Terminator fans" (i.e., everyone) and adds, "You're about to see the Harvester attacking humanity," so I was expecting a giant robot going on a long diatribe about man's war-like ways and tendencies towards greed and destruction, but it ended up being more exciting than that. Gas tanker-exploding exciting!:
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May 8 2009 Four Effing Minutes of 'Terminator Salvation'
This trailer really lays all the cards on the table. John Connor confronting his Terminator buddy; Terminator motorcycles; Terminator Bears fighting Terminator Gorillas; a Terminator punching a guy so hard he lands on the sun; the 1st Annual Terminator Dog Show; a smaller Terminator skeleton within a larger Terminator skeleton; Terminator Buddha; just everything.
I can't imagine there are many surprises left for the film after this trailer, but still, kind of awesome:
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May 4 2009 John Connor Drops an "IBB"
Did you have to, McG? /Film noticed a new TV spot for Terminator Salvation that gives an obvious, sigh-worthy wink-wink to the audience: Christian Bale gives the old "I'll be back."
Brother. OK, cute enough, McG, but no more. That's it. No "Hasta la vistas" before shooting a Terminator. No "Good thing they don't make Terminators out of this stuff!" while pouring liquid metal into a mold. This was your gimme.
Apr 10 2009 There's a New 'Terminator' Movie Coming Out
Watchmen has some competition in the ridiculously excessive number of posters market. Here's another variation of the Batman-Worthington-Terminator motif, now with more heavenly aura, from IGN.
One thing I'll say about Terminators is, even if they are trying to exterminate the human race through a combination of brute force and covert operations, it's nice how they're always smiling.
Apr 9 2009 Don't Forget There's Another Terminator Movie Coming Out
Here's a poster to remind you. Interesting how they chose to deliberately model this design after the look of the bumpers from the Channel 4 series, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace:
This can't be a stretched coincidence!
'Terminator Salvation' Poster [KinoPoisk] (via)
Apr 6 2009 New 'Terminator Salvation' Photos on Our Most Valuable Commodity
Last week, remember how MTV showed that movie-based trading cards are still being manufactured? Well, apparently they felt those Star Trek cards weren't enough proof, and they've just posted some new photos from Terminator Salvation, all printed on small cardboard rectangles with brief descriptions on the back. Disappointingly, there aren't any shots of the super rare hologram and foil cards, so I'll just have to buy 30 or so packs in the hopes of getting one of those precious collectibles to show off at school tomorrow.
Mar 20 2009 Another 'Terminator Salvation' Poster, This One Decapitated Head-Based
In the year 2018, there's probably no better feeling than strutting around with the decapitated head of a Terminator, its eyes still glowing red from its residual Terminator juice. Everyone's giving you high fives, or, if they also have a Terminator head, clanking the skull of their Terminator head against yours as a showing of solidarity. Ladies are giving you those come hither glances they reserve only for guys with disembodied Terminator heads. That'd be allllright.
Mar 17 2009 You Will Hear Linda Hamilton in 'Terminator Salvation'
"Remember how, in the previous Terminator movies, learning computers kept getting sent from the future? This is that future, and Christian Bale is Edward Furlong." When those fateful lines begin Terminator Salvation, Linda Hamilton will be the one speaking them. A CHUD source who saw the film has confirmed that the actress's call-back voice-over begins the epic story. Let's hope McG also managed to get that Schwarzenegger cameo, a final shot that reveals it's been him telling the entire story to his Terminator grandchildren.
(Thanks, Rick.)
Mar 16 2009 Beware the Terminator Robo-Hobo!
I'm genuinely worried that, no matter how engaging Terminator: Salvation might be, and regardless of any explanations given, I'm going to inappropriately laugh every time these tattered-garb Terminator pariahs come onscreen. My mind just can't handle the idea of a robot with a machine-gun bindle. Do you think the figure will come with Action Rags? I might have to take a trip to places where toys are sold.
Terminator Salvation Poster [Trailer Addict]
Mar 3 2009 New 'Terminator Salvation' Trailer May Be Only Hope You Have, John Connor
Bad news, future resistance leader John Connor: The Terminator monsters outnumber us humans, they're killing us, and they've started wearing our human skins as disguise coats. But on the plus side, you're kissing the Lady in the Water, so you're doing alright too. This video should summarize things.
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Mar 2 2009 Batman. Terminator. And Someone Named Sam Worthington.
Yahoo has premiered these three new character posters for Terminator Salvation. Display them as a set to show your excitement for the new Terminator film, or post them individually to support a couple actors and the metal man apparently named NATOR SAL\. The choice is yours, John Connors.
Feb 24 2009 John Connor Has a Plan
And his plan is, "I'm just going to let this guy paw at my face for a bit and hope he'll go away." I've tried that on the subway, and it never works.
New Terminator Salvation Pics [Empire]
Feb 23 2009 A Few Seconds of a Bunch of Upcoming Movies
If you made it to the end of the Oscars--or more likely, if you dozed off and were awakened by the credit sequence's jamming guitar--the night's reward was a three-minute movie preview sequence. For some of the films (Public Enemies, Whatever Works), it was a first look at scenes from highly-anticipated projects. For others (Old Dogs!), it was the warning: oh god, Robin Williams and John Travolta made some kind of boot camp comedy, and it's called Old Dogs. Here it is:
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Feb 3 2009 Never Get in John Connor's Eyeline
I was going to leave this for The Superficial since it seems more gossipy than movie news relevanty, but seeing that so many people sent it in last night and this morning, here's a link to the recording of Christian Bale flipping out on Terminator Salvation cinematographer Shane Hurlbut. Apparently the D.P. was wandering around while Bale was doing a dramatic scene, so Bale decided to go off on the guy for several expletive-filled minutes, threatening to trash his lights and kick his "fucking ass" while Hurlbut meekly defends himself. And even more surprising: Christian Bale still has to call McG "McG"?
Obviously not safe for work unless you want to threaten your workmates in a Welsh accent.
Feb 2 2009 Terminator Hydrabots Hate Humans in the Worst Way
Thanks to Junkyard Dog for pointing out a McG interview at Wired with some new information and concept art--like this portrait of a Hydrabot murdering this guy via his mouth hole. This is the exact equivalent of what it's like when a man hacks a computer. This is how it feels for the computer. Think about that when you start your next Operation: Swordfish, hackers.
Jan 21 2009 John Connor Loves American Cars and Trucks
Chrysler has received $4 billion in U.S. government aid, and gosh that's a lot of money. What are they going to spend it on? Keeping their workforces paid during these hard times? Oil for their robot builders? Making sure Christian Bale drives around in a Chrysler truck during Terminator Salvation, because then people will be like, "John Connor drives a Chrysler and he's mankind's savior, so I probably should too"? Yes, that one:
Reuters reports that Chrysler has unveiled plans to help underwrite Terminator Salvation.Chrysler, which has received $4 billion in emergency aid from the U.S. government, has a deal to place its vehicles in cameo roles in the film, scheduled for release on May 22 and starring Christian Bale, executives said on Tuesday.
Financial terms of the sponsorship deal were not disclosed.
"This spring, 'Terminator 4' comes out and we will be one of the sponsors," Chrysler director of media Susan Thomson said in a presentation at the Automotive News World Congress. "We have a following with the 'Terminator' movies and we are going to continue with that."
Damn. I was really hoping I'd be able to buy a Terminator Pissing on Chrysler Logo bumper sticker.
Chrysler Cars to be Featured in Terminator Salvation [Coming Soon]
