Step right up. Get your Terminator here...
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Terminator franchise up for sale
November 2, 4:57 PM - Orange County Movie Examiner
Production company, Halcyon, is to auction off the rights to the Terminator franchise.
According to the Financial Times, the deal will test Hollywood intellectual property valuations at a time when film industry profits are under pressure from falling DVD sales. The last time the rights were sold (from producer Mario Kassar to Halcyon) they went for $25m.
Considerable interest is being shown in the auction of the franchise which, besides its success, is an industry rarity in that it is a blockbuster film franchise not controlled by a big studio. In a, therefore, quite natural turn of events, all the big film studios have reportedly registered an interest in the rights with Sony Pictures rumoured as a leading contender.
The auction, happening this month, comes only a few weeks after the rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were sold for $60m. “We have a property that has made three times the box office,” stated senior managing director of FTI, Kevin Schultz. FTI is handling the sale for Halcyon after the latter sought bankruptcy protection.
The latest film to come out of the franchise, Terminator Salvation, was released to mixed reviews earlier this year but still went on to gross $380m worldwide.
Summer Glau sold seperately.
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Summer Glau sold seperately.
Sorry, but that's a dealbreaker. I'd bid on the franchise, but only if it comes with Summer. :)
Mike
Let the wild rumpus start!
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Im the only one who posts here who could afford to buy this.
i have coin
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Yeah, right.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Fear not!
Our Big Damn Hero is onto it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8342203.stm
They did say "lowest unique bid wins" didn't they?
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Fear not!
Our Big Damn Hero is onto it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8342203.stm
They did say "lowest unique bid wins" didn't they?
ROFL
Gotta love his sense of humor...
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Whedon's ideas for rebooting the Terminator series included "more porn" and stopping the series from "getting less cool".
In Terminator Of The Rings, he explained, the ring would have "no power" over the titular cyborg, allowing him to "carry it, and Frodo, and Sam" at the same time as fighting off orcs.
"This stuff just comes to me," he wrote, adding, "I will also offer $10,000 for the Lord of the Rings franchise".
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"In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him....But as all these things did come to pass, the Spirit that did cause man to create his God lived on with all men: even within Aqualung. And man saw it not. But for Christ's sake he'd better start looking." - Jethro Tull
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www.summer-glau.net is reporting that Joss is interested.
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TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, TSCC, JAMERON4EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Mom, he has her chip. He has her."
John Connor,"Born To Run", TSCC EP 2x22
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