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Cameron: 'Terminator: Salvation Needed Schwarzenegger'
18 December 2009 8:21 AM, PST
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The Terminator creator James Cameron has criticised the recent sequel, insisting the new movie didn't feel "authentic" because Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't in it.
Cameron wrote and directed the original 1984 movie which starred Schwarzenegger as a futuristic robot sent back in time, and returned to direct Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1992.
The moviemaker sat out the third movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in 2003 and had no involvement with the most recent installment, this year's Terminator: Salvation.
Cameron admits the director, McG, did a good job reworking the story - but felt the movie was a disappointment without Schwarzenegger, who only made a brief cameo appearance in the new film.
He tells Ugo.com, "Interestingly, I think McG did a good job. I think he was almost too referential to the myths of the first and second film. He over-quoted them in a way. It didn't feel to me to be enough of a reinvention. The thing we did with the second film is that we reinvented the first film completely; spun it on its a** and made the Terminator the good guy, and came up with a whole new concept for a villain, it felt fresh.
"I didn't feel the fourth picture was fresh enough. It also lacked a certain stamp of authenticity because Arnold wasn't in it. I mean, he was in it briefly, digitally, but that's not the same thing."
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James Cameron gives verdict on McG's Terminator Salvation
15 December 2009 3:52 PM, PST
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Avatar director James Cameron was also the man behind the first two Terminator films, in 1984 and 1991, which are regarded by many fans as the strongest in the series.
Cameron directed and co-wrote both releases, which were followed by Jonathan Mostow's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in 2003 and then this year by McG's power-packed, post-apocalyptic Terminator Salvation.
In the Total Film supplement King of the World: The Complete Works of James Cameron, there is an interview in which Cameron was asked what he thought of Terminator Salvation.
He responded: "It didn't quite have the emotional power that it should have had. I thought Sam Worthington was great, very powerful, and Christian Bale...people have criticised him for being one-note but that's part of the character.
"He was playing a guy who's furiously dedicated to the survival of the human species. Maybe more could have been done with that.
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McG Still Set On Making Two More 'Terminator' Movies
7 December 2009 5:31 AM, PST
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McG (I still will never get over that effing name) did a Bd live commentary for "Terminator Salvation" recently, and apparently it was quite the listen. In addition to comparing himself to Hitchcock, dissing "Terminator 3" (at least that movie almost justified its existence by having an awesome ending), saying nothing substantial about his directing choices on the film, and telling people to "fuck off" if they didn't like his "Charlie's Angels" movies, McG said the following:
7:13: He just announced that he's making another Terminator movie. Seriously.7:16: Oh and for those people who are punching themselves in the face that he's making another one? He said he's making one after that.
It's pretty clear from the middling reception of "T3," the failure of the "Sarah Connor Chronicles" TV show, and McG's own under-performing "T4" that no one really cares about the franchise beyond the first two films.
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'Terminator Salvation' Blows Up The World, Ben Stiller Spends The Night And More, In The DVD Report For Dec. 1
1 December 2009 8:00 AM, PST
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Let's get this out of the way right off to bat: I enjoyed "Terminator Salvation." I know I'm sitting in a somewhat lonely circle, but what can I say? I'm a sucker for big, loud robots, cyborgs, whatever you want to call them, and "Salvation" has some jaw-droppingly cool scenes. The film is now hitting store shelves, and leads the DVD Report for Tuesday, December 1.
The studio was taking a gamble when it greenlit a fourth film in the venerable "Terminator" franchise. After a lackluster response to 2003's "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," many fans advocated for putting the series to bed, either to breathe or permanently. But away we went with director McG at the helm, and Christian Bale and Anton Yelchin -- two figures with legitimate geek cred -- attached to the budding sequel. The resulting story saw a band of resistance fighters battling to save humanity from the ever-evolving SkyNet.
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Zac Efron Gets Addicted to Stage Fright
24 November 2009 8:14 PM, PST
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Zac Efron told MTV News that he gets hooked by the nervy feeling which occasionally appears before he goes in front of the camera. "I definitely get stage fright," he revealed at the red carpet premiere of his movie "Me and Orson Welles" on November 23. "That's part of the fun. That's what makes it interesting."
The star of "High School Musical" series moreover said, "It's sort of addicting, that feeling." The 22-year-old actor added, "You know you're alive" admitting that although he gets jittery, he relishes the feeling he feels when tackling his roles.
Zac's co-star in the "Orson Welles", Claire Danes also confessed that she also experiences stage fright. At the same gala, she gushed, "I get stage fright all the time. I did 'Pygmalion' [on Broadway] right before I shot this movie, which is really funny because I kind of got out of the habit of shooting on film and
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Bruce Willis Film "Surrogates" To Be Released On DVD In January
23 November 2009 10:05 PM, PST
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"Surrogates" will be available on DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def in January.
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment announced it will release the Bruce Willis action movie on January 26. The movie, referred to by Collider.com critic Matt Goldberg as "high-octane action," will come complete with a variety of special features for an enhanced viewing experience.
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, the movie is set in a futuristic society where robot bodies outnumber those of actual humans. The robots, surrogates, are made in the likeness of people who control them from their home. Without any risk of danger, the surrogates allow users to experience an exciting life without any kind of repercussions. Among the users is FBI agent Tom Greer (Willis), who is called upon to solve a mystery involving the surrogates, which are beginning to malfunction, killing their users. And when
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Amazon Launches Big Under $20 Blu-ray Sale
22 November 2009 7:40 AM, PST
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Online retailer Amazon.com is getting a head start on Black Friday with a new Blu-ray Disc sale featuring new and catalog releases alike which reflects a holiday pricing trend we wrote about not too long ago.
The sale features 203 titles that have been priced at $19.99 or less. Typically Amazon includes the most popular titles at the top of the sale and those include The Hangover (pre-order), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (pre-order), Terminator Salvation (pre-order), The Dark Knight and The Watchmen: Director's Cut -- all priced at a very respectable $16.99.
Some other titles included in the sale for under $10 are Interview with the Vampire, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and A Time to Kill.
Shop or browse all the titles in the Amazon.com under $20 Blu-ray sale.
Amazon has not placed an end date on this promotion so it could feasibly run right through Christmas.
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Exclusive Interview: Catching Up with Kristanna Loken
15 November 2009 11:10 PM, PST
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At its core, acting is really just a grand lie told in the name of entertainment. It’s a bit incongruous, then, that when actors walk off the stage, we expect the opposite from them: the truth. We want to know who they are and what they stand for — and Kristanna Loken is one of the few actors who tells us.
Loken, who publicly came out as bisexual four years ago, has appeared in T3: Rise of the Machines, Painkiller Jane and The L Word. She also starred in Lime Salted Love, an independent film that became available on DVD last month.
In this exclusive interview with AfterEllen.com, Loken opens up for the first time about her separation from husband Noah Danby and about the new love in her life.
Kristanna Loken
Photo credit: Collin Stark
AfterEllen.com: I understand a lot has changed in your personal life in
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Collider Giveaway: The Box
30 October 2009 3:03 PM, PDT
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Opening on November 6th is writer/director Richard Kelly’s “The Box”. The movie is set around a deceptively simple moral dilemma. An average couple is offered an opportunity to get themselves out of financial difficulty: a million dollars, in exchange for the knowledge that their acceptance of this gift will result in the death of one person somewhere in the world - someone they don’t know. The big question is, “What will they do?” But writer/director Richard Kelly is also asking, “What would you do?”
While many of the various giveaway’s we’ve run on Collider have been cool, one of the prizes for “The Box” might be the best yet. That’s because we’ve been given a replica of the box used in the movie! According to the people providing the items, it’s retail value is two hundred dollars. Needless to say, this is the grand prize.
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Contest: Win Huge Prizes from The Box!
27 October 2009 11:31 AM, PDT
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If you had to make an important choice in your life knowing it could cost someone else there's, would you be able to do it? What if it meant you'd be rich? That's the dilemma facing Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur (James Marsden) Lewis in Richard Kelly's The Box! This new thriller finds the young married couple having to face the consequences of accepting the gift of a mysterious box that could save their son's life, but end the life of a complete stranger in the process. To celebrate this mysterious and creepy moral quandary, we are offering you the chance to win a bunch of cool prizes from the movie. Enter our contest today, and you may walk away with a really cool T-shirt, Hat, or keychain from The Box. But beware! By accepting this contest into your life, and clicking on that entry button, you may be
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Terminator Salvation UK DVD and Blu-Ray details
27 October 2009 4:59 AM, PDT
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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
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Massive Contest! The Box
20 October 2009 6:00 PM, PDT
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With the November 6th release of Richard Kelly's The Box coming up on us fast, we figured there'd be no better way to celebrate the arrival of this new headsy horror flick than by giving away a prize pack full of all manner of goodies including a replica of The Box itself!
So what exactly are we giving away, you ask? Check out the pictures below. For more on the film visit the The Box website, and to receive exclusive Warner Bros. movie news updates click on the banner below.
Ok, enough talking! On to the prizes! To win yourself some of the cool swag below (see below for official rules and regulations), just hit us off with an E-mail Here that includes your Full Name And Mailing Address, and we'll do the rest.
And a replica of The Box for one lucky winner as pictured below.
James Marsden
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season Two Blu-Ray Review
8 October 2009 8:57 AM, PDT
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As a science fiction nerd, I was onboard Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles at the word “Terminator”. The show focuses on the bond between Sarah and her son John as they work together with the first cute Terminator, Cameron, to stave off Armageddon. Were they successful? Was it entertaining? More after the jump.
For those unfamiliar with the Terminator franchise… In the first film, aptly titled The Terminator, Kyle Reese comes back to the present to protect Sarah Connor from a killer robot called, you guessed it, the Terminator (played by then actor, now Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger). While in our present, Reese regales Sarah with stories of his heroic fight with the resistance against machines behind their leader, her son John. Prior to his arrival, Sarah wasn’t even pregnant. A little bit of intimacy with Kyle solves that problem (thanks time travel!) Sarah then goes about trying
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Me and Orson Welles Trailer
8 October 2009 8:45 AM, PDT
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Zac Efron and Orson Welles is the two names anybody would ever put within the same sentence. A Scanner Darkly director Richard Linklater is forcing us to, in the Robert Kaplow novel adaptation of Me and Orson Welles. Starring Zac Efron, Claire Danes and Christian McKay, this 1930’s set film comes out with its first trailer. Being released in theaters on November 25th from Freestyle Releasing, here it is:
Crawford, maybe Cyrus, get FootlooseTerminator Retrospective: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ReviewThe Negatives: 17 Yet AgainEfron’s Ready For A Quest
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Willis Ready For A Fifth ‘Die Hard’ - Are You?
5 October 2009 12:54 PM, PDT
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Fresh off of the release of his movie, The Surrogates, Bruce Willis is already talking about what film he’d like to do next - and no, it’s not “Armageddon 2: Harry’s Revenge.” Willis is looking to reprise our favorite protagonist, John McClain, for a fifth installment in the Die Hard franchise.
Although, according to Willis, they better not wait around too long.
“I would love to do another one but they better get it done soon, what with the march of time and all that I’m not getting any younger.”
As a fan of not only Bruce Willis, but the entire the Die Hard franchise, I could not be happier about this news. While some people had a problem with a PG-13 McClain in Live Free or Die Hard, I felt that the move overall was as action-packed and entertaining as I could have hoped for.
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Weekend Box Office: Slim Pickings for 'Surrogates', 'Fame'
28 September 2009 8:02 AM, PDT
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Weren't we seeking flashy, content-free teaser trailers for Fame, like, a year ago? Or nine months out at least? That's the sort of marketing generally reserved for event blockbusters, not movies that get dumped into theaters in late September en route to a $10 million opening and -- most likely -- a final gross in the vicinity of $25 -30 million. What happened? Given the bad reviews, perhaps MGM/Sony realized with a few months to go that they didn't have an awards contender or likely crowd favorite on their hands.
On the other hand, I don't know what excuse Disney has for Surrogates, a perfectly serviceable, extremely commercial sci-fi actioner starring Bruce Willis and directed by T3's Jonathan Mostow. Willis actionally doesn't have the greatest track record in opening non-franchise releases, but $15 million for a movie like this is awfully weak; here is an instance where hiding a movie from critics arguably hurt.
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'Surrogates' No Substitute for a Good Story
27 September 2009 9:30 PM, PDT
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The sci-fi–murder mystery hybrid Surrogates takes an intriguing idea — a future where people only interact through robot proxies — and kills it deader than its murderer’s brain-melted victims. This film from Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) melds bits of I, Robot, The Matrix, and Minority Report, but it excises all the intelligence and style of its predecessors in the mind-numbing process.
Surrogates begins with a lazy look back at its futuristic world’s history, beginning with the invention of surrogates by Canter (James Cromwell). Fast forward 13 years, and the technology created to help people in wheelchairs has now been adopted by 98% of the world’s population (apparently even the starving live their lives through a surrogate…). People rarely leave their homes, instead sending the surrogates out to work and play. While their real bodies molder in specially equipped easy chairs, they feel every sensation that their surrogates experience,
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Surrogates Review
26 September 2009 11:28 AM, PDT
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In “Surrogates,” FBI agents (Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves—fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles—enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who’s real and who can you trust?
Willis still takes a beating better than any action star in the business. But there are really only two significant action sequences in what’s otherwise a murder mystery set in a future world. Oh, and pretty much everyone now owns a surrogate robot body—usually a blandly prettier version of themselves—through which they can live vicariously, feeling everything good that the surrogate experiences,
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"Surrogates" is a Futuristic Thrill-ride!
26 September 2009 12:17 AM, PDT
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Jonathan Mostow directed “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” and he utilizes a similar form of execution in his latest science fiction, action-thriller “Surrogates”. What’s surprising? It’s that he film actually delivers. Walk in expecting an all out action-flick and you’re bound to be disappointed. Instead, writers Michael Ferris and John D. Brancato spend a large portion of their story capturing the futuristic world showcased in the film. Most of the time, this is a bad thing, but here, it’s surprisingly engrossing and even unsettling at times.
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MovieSet Weekend Release Round-up! What are you seeing this weekend?
25 September 2009 11:42 AM, PDT
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The cold weather cometh, and with it, more new movies than you can shake a stick at. So what’re you going to see this weekend?
Whether you’re in for a good laugh, cry or scare, Hollywood has got you covered. So stuff a couple snacks in your pockets and head on down to the cinema!
Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day
First priority for most comedy lovers this weekend will be the release of Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to liquor day. Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are back up to no good in the exciting conclusion of the Trailer Park Boys franchise!
Julian, Bubbles & Ricky in Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day
The boys are about to get out of jail, and this time, Julian vows to go straight, even open a legit business. Soon the Boys will all be rich. At least that’s what they’ve told the parole board.
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