When a production company goes bankrupt, the rights get bought up and sometimes split up, too.Īfter Terminator 3 came out in the summer of 2003, director Jonathan Mostow and writers John Brancato and Michael Ferris were developing a fourth film with MGM Studios interested in distributing the film. The company, along with Halcyon, also produce the Fox TV series The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which began airing episodes in early 2008.Ĭonvoluted I know, but that's how things sometimes work in Hollywood. Vajna and Mario Kassar had to fight to get the rights to make Terminator 3 with their new company, C2 Pictures. Then Cutthroat Island sunk Carolco, and producers Andrew G.

Before that, production companies Carolco and TriStar Pictures produced and released the legendary sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day. So it's a surprise that there may be a battle for the distribution rights.Ī little history between MGM and the Terminator franchise: Orion Pictures owned the rights to the first film, then they went bankrupt and MGM picked up the rights (for DVD, etc.).

Halcyon, the production company behind the movie, is planning on creating a new trilogy starting with Salvation and director McG is already talking about potential T5 plot lines. is distributing the film domestically (much like it did with the under-rated Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines), while the international release is being handled by Sony. Terminator Salvation is opening in a week (May 21, 2009), and Warner Bros. and Sony are distributing next week's Terminator Film. Yep, shock waves are being felt around Hollywood, since Warner Bros. As we near the release of the highly anticipated Terminator Salvation, troubled MGM Studios is hoping to get into the Terminator game by positioning itself to take over the distribution of Terminator 5, part two in the planned new trilogy.

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