Terminator Rights Sold: There is No Fate But What Pacificor Makes for Itself.

Well this is totally unexpected.

Pacificor, LLC is about to become the new owner of the Terminator Franchise unless a judge says otherwise.

Here is a link to the original story courtesy of Deadline Hollywood.

29.5 Million Dollars.

Basically Pacificor..erm…well…uhm…shit this poster said it best.

You make an inference that is incorrect and your readers seem to jump right in. A secured creditor has a “credit” that it can bid. This is true in every situation. So Pacificor is not paying with cash, but with what it is owed. Pacificor would bid up to the amount owed because it is “owed first” being a secured creditor. It was always going to bid its credit, because Terminator is an asset that will have some value and Pacificor knows it will never see actual cash from Halcyon. Any and every secured creditor would have done the same thing. Now, Pacificor may sell Terminator to the bidders or decide to hold on and see what it can do with Terminator. Either way, this was not a surprise and plays out like every other bankruptcy involving a secured creditor.

What he said.

Here’s what I HOPE happens.

Sony Wants Terminator Too

Well on the last day of bidding a second party has joined the present war over the rights to the Lucrative Terminator franchise.

I said a long time ago that Sony would be placing a bid and I am today proven correct.

IMHO Sony will outbid Lionsgate and this certainly makes for an interesting read if you look between the lines. It’s more than possible that Sony are not as confident in their Spider-Man reboot as they’d like us to think. And let’s not forget that Terminator Salvation did well overseas for Sony.

If Sony wins the rights, (which I believe they have to because I believe that lower bids than Lionsgate would not be accepted) than we could be seeing a continuation of the Future War series started with Terminator Salvation.

If this is the case and McG comes back to direct I want to be sure he understands that the fans expect much more from him than we got last time, even this fan.

Monday is Judgment Day so we’ll know either way soon.

The original story is here from Variety.

Ross Out

Leigon Review: Old Testament God in a New Testament time.

I’ll start with a quote from an interview with the director Scott Stewart from here.

I definitely tried to bring in that disconnect. I wanted to play around with the mythology of the Old Testament and the Old Testament view of God. There’s no Hell, no demons, no bifurcation of God. And because of that, I think this is a more psychologically complex God in the sense that He gets angry. If you mess up, he gets angry at you and he’s going to smite you. He’ll test you and he’ll do so in all sorts of different ways. And I try to let those scenes play out among those humans who are trapped in the diner too, there all these parent-child conflicts that give this story that allegorical quality. But it’s also just meant to be a fun, scary time.

Well all I have to say is that’s all well and good Sir but since when would God send down Angels to posess people?

That’s what Fallen Angels…AKA Demons do…and those Demons you so hopefully wish werent around in Old Testament times…certainly were.

And I’m shocked to see later in that interview that the Halo became the Collar that God uses to “keep track” of his Angels.

Hold on just a second the All Knowing All Powerful God who lives out of time and has experienced everything doesn’t know where his Angels are and needs a Heavenly Lojack to keep track of them. Please.

That said there is a shadow of a film here and that film is…The First Terminator film. Leigon is very similar to Terminator in elements of its story. I’m just very glad that Michael wasn’t there to create the baby he’s trying to save.

The film itself is forgettable…there is a reason this was dumped in the Jan Feb window. It wouldn’t survive anywhere else. I saw it in a hundred seat theater with 10 people in attendance. Nothing even remotely realistic happens, oh wait cars drive…that is realistic.

As for the rest of it, it would be humorous if it didn’t completley rewrite The Bible.

Here’s a hint if you want to see how God does bring Judgment on the earth when he finally gets tired of humanity…read the book of Revelation.

Ironically enough the book of Revelation would make for a much better apocalypse also.

Instead of getting a -1 this film gets a 0 for it’s admittedly cool Angel costume.

Ross Out.

Goldilocks’ says Terminator: Salvation “Just Right”

Alright techincally Goldilocks didn’t say that however there’s not really any other way to look at things in the grand scheme of things.

Why do I say that?

Why does Terminator: Salvation fit into the admittedly large group of “Just right”?

First of all it’s NOWHERE to be found in the list for The Razzies. Razzie noms here.

And it’s nowhere to be found in The Oscars. Oscar noms here.

Of course in the end it’s all up to the individual viewer based on what works for them, in the end though Hollywood has chosen not to include it on either list.

Which is a bummer I would’ve loved to see Bale yelling out his acceptance speech.

Ross Out.

You know I’m 100 percent behind 3-D films now…

Because Underworld 3-D* has just been announced.

Len Wiseman is back…and so is his wife (luuuuuuuuucky sod) Kate Beckinsale.

Yes for those who’re having trouble processing this that means we’ll see this…

In 3-D.

You know I LOVE the Underworld films yes they’re derivative, but one cannot deny that they’re cool as all hell.

No news yet on whether it will be a Sequel to UW1 and 2 or another Prequel, not a word has been written but it does have a release date set up of: Jan. 21st 2011.

*= Working title.

Original Article courtesy of: CHUD

Ross Out

DGA Announces: Bigelow Defeats Cameron!

The Directors Guild of America have awarded Kathryn Bigelow as Director of the Year over her ex-husband James Cameron!

She is the FIRST woman EVER to win the DGA award for director of the year.

And as Roger Ebert puts it only 6 out of 60 times has the DGA winner not gone on to win the Oscar for Best Director of a motion picture.

Congratulations Kathryn and everyone involved in the making of The Hurt Locker, you guys deserve it.

Ross Out.

Kong vs. Rex New Special Effects!

King Kong and a massive 35ft tall T-Rex are about to give Tourists at Universal Studios Hollywood a crash em smash em good time.

In 2008 a fire raged through the old King Kong attraction which was part and parcel of the Backlot Tram Tour at Univeral Studios. Now Universal is teaming up with PETER JACKSON to bring you and tramloads of tourists to Skull Island to witness a smackdown of epic proportions.

And it’s all going to be in 3-D!

Get your tech heavy preview after the break.

McG next Slays with Nikita Remake!

Ahh joy, Nikita is back!

I’ve loved the tellings and retellings of Nikita.

They started with Luc Besson’s film la femme Nikita which was totally brutal, not to mention entirely exceptional.

This was followed up with the exciting (but inferior) U.S. remake…Point of No Return.

This was in turn followed up by the fantastic cable series on USA network… called La Femme Nikita. This starred the awesome Peta Wilson.

Now comes word from The Hollywood Reporter right here Original article.

McG will Executive Produce for the CW.

It is apparently a story about Nikita being on the run which is certainly an interesiting way to take things.

I really hope it’s good I don’t want this to devolve into an odds evens thing.

Ross Out

E is the Loneliest letter…

…Not anymore!

That’s right…not anymore.

You know I think E that’s right the letter E has been greviously overlooked in the past.

Now don’t get me wrong it’s used in a LOT of great words, and it is spoken just as often in sentences as most other letters. However it gets the shaft in two major avenues of life.

1: School Grades.
2: And movie review scales.

Take a good long look A…B…C…D…F

Get Out!

The future of film: Now in Immerse-o-vision!

Alright so Avatar just became the biggest grossing movie EVER. That’s tight.

Cameron is even praising everyone involved this time and not making the “King of the World” silliness raise it’s ugly head again. (In fact in a business Weekly interview I read the other day…he admits that that was really damned lame).

But what the hell is next in movie tech.

Many major releases are either being filmed in 3-D or revers engineered in some SFX tech lab to be reborn into 3D films. Hey I see in 3-D every waking moment what is it that makes it so damned special anyway?

I mean there are some things that work great in 3-D. like the awesome first shot of Avatar and it’s simple water droplet. And some things I’d rather not see, I’d say Jean Reno’s giant schnozz (some shots in the best action movie ever Leon…do not need 3-D treatment).

Here’s a few possibilities.