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The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Sands of Not My Freakin' Dime
4 November 2009 1:09 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
It's the mid-week report of the good, bad and you-know-what-the-what here, as we compile the movie news from the past week and a half. Yes, you'll have more at the end of the week—but for now, let us all cringe together as we see stomach news of the 2012 motion sickness experience, an Mib without Will Smith, and the audacity of some people to shoot a barely visible topless scene and hype it up like it was Basic Instinct 3.
The Good
• For years, there have been several attempts to do a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, none of them ever came close to moving ahead. Speaking to MTV last week, director Robert Zemeckis set the record straight: that this time he is personally involved and really excited to do the sequel, and that he has commissioned original scribes Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman to write the screenplay. Let's hope »
- Arya Ponto
Terminator Rights Up for Grabs, Whedon Bids
3 November 2009 6:54 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
The rights for the Terminator franchise are headed for an auction as the Halcyon Company who owns them files for Chapter 11.
I hinted this would happen last month, but now Halcyon is serious about unloading its largest asset by January 2010. The company purchased the rights in 2007 for $25-30 million before churning out a sequel that made $380 million worldwide. An exec with Fti Capital Advisers claims the property is worth $60-70 million now. Maybe those suits didn’t see Terminator Salvation.
Sony is definitely interested, especially considering their two biggest franchises are Men in Black and Spider-Man, both of which are already headed for a third and fourth. Summit Entertainment is also considering it, what with all the Twilight money they have to throw around these days. Plus the rest of the major studios considering the potential.
The winner would get the whole Terminator bundle: future movies, the “Sarah Connor Chronicles »
- Jeff Leins
Terminator Rights Hit Auction Block; Whedon Bids 10K
3 November 2009 1:35 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
About a month ago I wrote about how the Terminator franchise rights were up for grabs now that the company who owns the rights, Halcyon Co., has filed for bankruptcy. Well, the rights to the beloved sci-fi franchise are now officially on the auction block and we already have a wild opening bid that’s making news.
The man behind the bid? Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse.
According to the La Times, The Halcyon Co. hopes to have the Terminator rights sold off by January, 2o1o, if only to start recouping some of the money they lost on the failed venture that was this summer’s Terminator Salvation (that title suddenly holds a lot of irony, doesn’t it?). There is also the possibility that Halcyon will hop on a “stalking horse,” which is basically a motivated buyer who bids early (and high enough »
- Kofi Outlaw
Joss Whedon Explains Open Letter to 'Terminator' Owners
2 November 2009 10:35 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Amidst reports about the rights of the "Terminator" franchise being up for auction surfaced, TV series creator Joss Whedon penned an open letter to the franchise owners, offering $10,000 for the rights. While some deemed his letter hilarious, the man behind "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Dollhouse" told Entertainment Weekly he is not just being funny.
"Here's the thing: It's not a slam on The Terminator. I love The Terminator. That part's totally true," the 45-year-old explained his grounds. "I was thinking to myself, 'Not since they auctioned off frames from The Little Mermaid have I wished I had more money this much. So you know what, never hurts to ask.' I loved the movies, even the later movies."
"I loved the mythology. I loved the TV show [Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles] - like, really loved. Not for pretend. And not just because of [star] Summer [Glau]," he went on. "But mostly, it's just me being a dumb-ass, »
- AceShowbiz.com
Rights to 'Terminator' Franchise to Be Auctioned Off
2 November 2009 12:56 AM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
The rights to the "Terminator" feature film franchise are up for grabs. The Financial Times reported that Halcyon, the production company behind "Terminator Salvation" will auction off the rights this November "in a deal that will test Hollywood intellectual property valuations at a time when film industry profits are under pressure from falling DVD sales."
Since "Terminator" is a rare example of a blockbuster film franchise not controlled by a big studio, the sale has reportedly drawn interest from every major studio as well as several financial buyers, which include Summit Entertainment, Media Rights Capital and Platinum Equity. Sony Pictures, who distributed "Salvation" around the world, is said to be the leading contender.
The rights are being sold by Halcyon after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after a dispute with Pacificor, a Santa Barbara-based hedge fund that lent Halcyon funds to buy the rights to the popular film series. »
- AceShowbiz.com
Who Wants to Buy the Terminator Franchise?
2 November 2009 12:06 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
After seeing “Terminator Salvation” and its disappointing gross of $125 million (according to Box Office Mojo, it cost $200 million to make), I made a prediction that the series would see a re-boot before it saw another sequel. Since “Terminator” is one of the few major franchises not owned by one of the big studios, the rights will be auctioned off this week. Its sale price will signal not only the worth of “Terminator” but the value of intellectual property in Hollywood. Hit the jump to see if its worth more than just scrap metal.
While the Financial Times highlights the aspect of the intellectual property, I think that’s going to be just fine. Intellectual property is selling fine and will continue to do so because every studio wants a pre-sold film so they take from books, comics, TV, video games, etc. The only difference with the “Terminator” is that it »
- Matt Goldberg
Moon Bloodgood Topless Scene From Terminator Salvation
31 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
I have no clue why McG made such a huge deal of Moon Bloodgood stripping off her top for Terminator Salvation... especially since the scene got cut. You can now however watch said scene below. Be aware the content is for a mature audience only but its also not exactly over the top. Its breasts from a distance, you have seen worse on Cable TV I am sure.
Earlier Sony Sent the specs for the November release of Terminator Salvation on Bluray and DVD. The studio included dvd art and bluray art but no specs for the dvd release leading me to believe the DVD might not have any extras. Pushing us to go bluray?
John Connor (Bale) was fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus »
Deleted Scene: Moon Bloodgood Topless in T4
31 October 2009 1:57 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
In the year leading up to Terminator Salvation, there was a lot of discussion about what the rating would and should be from the MPAA. Fans, of course, wanted a hard R full of the same violence and language they’d grown accustomed to with the first three movies. Warner Bros had other plans since the beginning, despite what director, McG, desperately (and falsely) claimed in front of audiences at comic book conventions and press engagements.
One scene in particular supposedly in contention at the time involved Moon Bloodgood undressing and going topless in the rain. Bloodgood herself called it a “beautiful shot.” McG, pretending to be battling for fandom, said he wanted to keep it in, while the rest of the rational world knew WB would get their PG-13 and nudity certainly didn’t fit into that broad appeal picture.
Thanks to the DVD (officially out December 1) deleted scenes, »
- Jeff Leins
New Trailer For The Road Keeps Carrying The Fire
30 October 2009 2:03 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Don.t let the relatively unknown director, John Hillcoat (The Proposition), and writer, Joe Penhall (Blue/Orange), scare you away.The Road is shaping up to be nothing less than a thoughtful and invigorating ride. With a solid 88% .Fresh. rating over at Rotten Tomatoes, this film isn.t poised for much disappointment. Adapting Cormac McCarthy.s Pullitzer Prize winning 2006 novel of the same name, the film pits two nameless protagonists, Man (Viggo Mortensen) and Son (Kodi Smit-McPhee), in a dreary, Terminator Salvation-like visually gritty post-apocalyptic landscape. Receiving support from Charlize Therone, Robert Duvall, and Guy Pearce, the cast certainly rounds itself out quite nicely. Wait a minute.let.s rewind: Did I just liken Cormac McCarthy.s The Road to McG.s Terminator Salvation? I am so sorry. Please forgive me. And, while we.re asking for forgiveness, please also forgive the trailer.s utterly ridiculous score that kicks »
Moon Bloodgood Topless Scene From Terminator Salvation
30 October 2009 9:48 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
When I spoke to McG when he was promoting “Terminator Salvation”, one of the things he told me was he’d be including 30 to 40 minutes of deleted scenes on the eventual DVD/Blu-ray. He talked about an alternate ending and John Conner giving a big speech. But the big deleted scene he mentioned was Moon Bloodgood topless. In fact, the scene in question has been talked about since the film was being shot as a number of us who visited the set actually saw the scene in McG’s trailer while in New Mexico. Also, he’s mentioned it countless times in interviews and at conventions.
So with the DVD/Blu-ray getting released on December 1st, part of the scene has leaked and it’s after the jump. The reason I say part of the scene is what you’re about to watch is not exactly what I saw on set. »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Moon Bloodgood’s topless scene from Terminator Salvation
29 October 2009 4:53 PM, PDT | Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news »
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” [...] »
- Liam
Terminator Salvation UK DVD and Blu-Ray details
27 October 2009 4:59 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced that they will release Terminator Salvation on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK from November 23rd. We have all of the info after the jump. Stars Christian Bale (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) and Sam Worthington (Avatar) ignite the battle between man and machine in the futuristic action epic Terminator Salvation, blasting its way onto Blu-ray and DVD on 23/11/09 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The Terminator Salvation Blu-ray and DVD will arrive packed with spectacular bonus features, including "Re-Forging the Future," an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the film's production, "The Moto-Terminator," a featurette revealing how the film's visual effects crew and motorcycle manufacturer Ducati partnered to create the slick and deadly Moto-Terminators, plus eleven mini featurette focus points spotlighting how the ground-breaking special effects were created.
The Blu-ray edition of Terminator Salvation will exclusively include McG's Director's Cut of the film with »
- Paul
Murray Wants McG Dead
20 October 2009 6:31 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Bill Murray has less than fond memories of working with moviemaker McG on Charlie's Angels - he thinks the director deserves to die a horrible death.
The two men famously fell out on the set of the 2000 action film, starring Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore, with McG claiming the surly star had headbutted him during a disagreement.
Murray refutes the headbutt story, but admits he and the filmmaker disliked each other immensely.
In an interview with London newspaper The Times, Murray says, "He deserves to die! He should be pierced with a lance."
The Lost In Translation star refuses to confirm reports he also fell out with Angel Lucy Liu on set, allegedly telling her she couldn't act, but questions about his relationship with the actress prompted Murray to growl about his rules for co-stars.
He adds, "I will dismiss you completely if you are unprofessional and working with me... When our relationship is professional, and you’re not getting that done, forget it." »
Bill Murray says 'Charlie's Angels' director 'deserves to die'
20 October 2009 1:40 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
In an interview with the Times of London, Bill Murray excitedly discussed his new film, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and also revisited some less-than-happy memories of movies past. After raving about his Mr. Fox director, Wes Anderson, Murray was asked about some other directors he had worked with over the years. And when the conversation circled around to his Charlie's Angels director, McG, the funnyman went to a very dark place. When asked about McG's recent claim that Murray had head-butted him on the set of 2000's Charlie's Angels during a creative flair-up, Murray replied, "That's bulls--! That's complete crap! »
- Chris Nashawaty
Murray says McG die
20 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
To start, all I can say is, don't f*ck with Bill Murray. Unlike Wes Anderson, McG is not his favorite director to work with. McG (real name Joseph McGinty Nichol) recently said that Murray was headbutting him during a creative dispute on Charlie's Angels. You know what Murray had to say about that, .That.s bullshit! That.s complete crap! I don.t know why he made that story up. He has a very active imagination.. There's really no reason to be fond of McG. All he really ends up doing is... »
- Niki Stephens
Bill Murray Thinks McG Deserves To Die
19 October 2009 10:05 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
McG was making enough enemies as it was this summer, having turned in a mediocre Terminator: Salvation after promising everyone he wouldn't ruin the franchise. He really didn't need to be messing with Bill Murray too, but apparently that's exactly what he was doing in a story I somehow missed. Did you hear that McG said that Bill Murray headbutted him on the set of Charlie's Angels? And Murray, unsurprisingly, has a rebuttal. "That.s bullshit! That.s complete crap!" he said in an interview with The Times of London. .I don.t know why he made that story up. He has a very active imagination.. He even saved his choicest words for a moment when he thought he'd regained composure. "No! He deserves to die,. he says, coldly staring, without breaking deadpan. .He should be pierced with a lance, not headbutted.. Yikes. I guess now we know just how »
Monster Squad Finds A Shrek-Type Director
19 October 2009 5:26 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
If you are like me (and we can only hope you have more of a life than I do), then when you read the title you were hoping it was a remake or sequel to the awesome young boys monster movie from the 80’s, The Monster Squad. Alas, this is not the case because the Warner Bros film was previously titled Nightcrawlers and will be a supernatural action comedy. Great, that means somewhere Will Ferrell will make a ridiculous cameo or heaven forbid, have a starring role.
Warner Bros. Studios has tapped Mike Mitchell (Sky High, Shrek Forever After) to helm the new Monster Squad movie which will work off of a nine year-old spec script written by Brian Lynch and rewritten by Brad Copeland (Wild Hogs). Donald De Line (The Italian Job) is attached to produce and the studio hopes to start filming next summer 2010.
What will Monster Squad be about? »
- Paul Young
Mike Mitchell’s ‘Monster Squad’ is Not A Remake!
19 October 2009 9:10 AM, PDT | HorrorYearbook | See recent HorrorYearbook news »
Horror fans can put down their torches! Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo director Mike Mitchell is not remaking Fred Dekker's classic Monster Squad. Phew! According to The Hollywood reporter Monster Squad is a new title for an old film originally called Nightcrawlers that was supposed to be directed by McG back in 2007. Coming Attractions adds that "Nightcrawlers was purchased by Warner Brothers back in 2000 as a spec screenplay written by Brian Lynch, and it was about a dad that had to face his childhood fears made flesh, namely, the monsters that scared him as a kid." »
- wil
Shrek 4 Director Goes For Monster Squad
19 October 2009 7:18 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Monster Squad, as much as I might like it to be, is not in fact a sequel to Monsters vs. Aliens, one of my most unexpectedly beloved movies of 2009. Instead it's an entirely different live-action project over at Warner Bros., in which an adult finally has to face the monsters that tormented him in childhood. Or at least, that's what it was in 2007, when McG was attached to direct it. Now it might going in an entirely different direction with Mike Mitchell, the Sherk Forever After director who has been picked up to direct this version. Variety writes that they want to put it into production as early as next summer, meaning that, given the slow pace of animation, we might see this movie even before that Monsters vs. Aliens sequel. Even though no one has actually see Shrek Forever After, Mitchell has already been picked to direct MGM's live-action »
Mike Mitchell Tapped To Direct Monster Squad
19 October 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Variety reports that Shrek Forever After director Mike Mitchell has been tapped by Warner Brothers to direct the comedy-fantasy project Monster Squad , originally attached to McG to direct back in 2007 from a script by Michael Arndt. Don't worry, Shock readers - this is not a remake of Fred Dekker's beloved cult classic The Monster Squad , but actually based on a spec script originally titled Nightcrawlers which centered on the adventures of an international coalition of kids whose job it was to combat a variety of monsters found under beds. The studio's keeping the latest logline under wraps for the latest version of the script by Brad Copeland. While not exactly "horror" related, we just wanted to point out this has nothing to do with The Monster Squad .... »
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