Warner Bros has announced that McG’s Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins will hit theaters on May 22nd 2009. This means that Terminator 4, which begins production in New Mexico for two months on May 5th, will go head to head with Fox’s Ben Stiller family comedy sequel Night at the Museum II: Escape From the Smithsonian. The original 2006 film took in over $573 million at the box office, while 2003’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines took in $433 million. The Da Vinci Code sequel/prequel Angels & Demons hits theaters a week earlier, while Pixar’s Up hits theaters the week after.
Christian Bale stars as John Connor alongside Sam Worthington (Avatar) in the first of a three film story arc which follows a group of survivors led by John Connor as they struggle to stop the machines after Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust.
Discuss: Will you see Terminator 4, Night at the Museum 2, Angels & Demons, or Pixar’s Up?
source: Variety
February 26th, 2008 at 2:12 am
God.. why can’t he just change his name from McG?
February 26th, 2008 at 4:05 am
sarah connor chronicle is surprisingly watchable but the whole point of the terminator franchise is negated by showing us the future, surely. won’t it just be guys shooting robots a la matrix revolutions? what potential does this have that i’m overlooking here? i mean, it got greenlit so i must be missing something.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:36 am
I’ll see all but Night at the Museum 2…
Hope Arnold makes a cameo at least.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:40 am
I’ll see all of them
February 26th, 2008 at 6:54 am
That’s some neat Ahnold artwork, at least. Only over a year to go!
February 26th, 2008 at 9:21 am
- Pixar delivers always, so I’m pretty sure Up will be great, although I haven’t heard anything about it yet.
- At the moment I don’t see much potential for Terminator 4. I can’t imagine an interesting storyline for it and I really doubt that there will be one in the movie. Plus it’s made by McG. But it has Christian Bale in it, so I’m waiting for the first responses and reviews.
- Same thing applies for Angels & Demons. I think that The Da Vinci Code was a bit better than its general rating, but of course it’s no must-see.
- And finally I surely won’t see Night at the Museum 2.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:34 am
I’ll be seeing both Terminator 4 and Angels and Demons, A&D was definitely the better book and should make a better movie.
I don’t know anything about up, but I doubt I’ll see it, also will not be seeing Night.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:46 am
No doubt I’ll be watcing Pixar’s Up!
February 26th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I think Ben Stiller is going the way of Adam Sandler. I used to love their movies, now, its just the same movie over and over with a few different characters.
I enjoyed N@tM as a popcorn cheesy flick, and I am not past watching this one with my daughter, but as far as box office draw, N@tM2 loses on all fronts.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:47 am
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! WHY DID THEY HIRE McG!?!?! Well Terminator fans get ready for music montages and matrix ripoffs, but it does have Christian Bale as John Conner, personally I think that is good casting, at least he didn’t cast Tom Green or other male leads from the Charlie’s Angels movies.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:54 am
WHY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DID THEY HIRE McG!?!? Now all we’re gonna get is music montages, and scenes and moves ripped off from the Matrix, and that’s not what a Terminator movie should have, and if they put a female bot or human who is quirky or Cameron Diaz-ish, I’m boycotting the movie.
But I’ll just see it for Christian Bale If anything he’s going to be the real talent in the movie, just judging by McG’s past casting choices.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I’ll wait on Terminator 4 for cable. I did it for Terminator 3 and it was well worth the wait.
As much as I like Blae, he won’t save MCG’s mess.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Natm 2 for me since it has amy adams.
Not gonna bother with other flicks.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I can’t understand why McG is on this project, I simply can’t, it doesn’t correlate with them casting Bale at all.
Here’s hoping it’s decent, but I’d feel a lot better about things if they fired McG…
February 26th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I have no idea why but Night at the Museum is one of my favorite movies ever.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Night at the museum did have that innocent, uplifting, disney family fantasy thing going on that hasnt been in a movie for a long time.
as for T4 it has potential. Atleast they are moving to a enw story arc and not trying to ‘bolt-on’ crappy storys to the current arc (ala T3).
But like everyone else, i cant help but worry about the director choice.
February 27th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Count thumb out for Night at the Museum.
Count Thumb IN for the action and animation.
February 27th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I think there is good potential for terminator movies set in the future because it will be like an actual war against the machines. I didn’t consider the fights in The Matrix vs the robot squid to be much of a war/battle… but something like we’ve seen in the glimpses of the future in the Terminator movies/Sarah Connor Chronicles on a large scale would be pretty cool. One concern I have tho is that McG tends to go off with action scenes like in Charlie’s Angles 2. What’s to stop him from making Terminator 4 one giant action sequence like Terminator 3? Hopefully he can practice a little more restraint like in a certain TV show that he produces.
March 8th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
I have no interest in Angels and Demons, Night at the Museum, or Up, T4 all of the way.
April 20th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Just how many John Connors are you going to have. I think the changing of all the Batmans Killed that series. You should keep the John Connor and his future wife from Terminator 3. No more changing the lead characters. These are great movies. Don’t destroy them by not letting the audience not care about the characters anymore as they don’t know who they are.