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Everyone's posting today a story that McG is going to be making more Terminator movies, based on Gizmodo, which listened to the director's live commentary Saturday night on the new Terminator Salvation movie.

Here's why you should take these pronouncements with huge grains of salt.

Shortly after Terminator rights auction announcement, a very funny “UPDATE” on the bid by Joss Whedon has been posted.

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According to Financial Times, the rights to the Terminator franchise will be put on auction this month. Financial Times reports that the upcoming auction has generated some interest from several buyers, including Platinum Equity, the Beverly Hills firm that owns Delphi, the auto parts maker. Sony Pictures along with all the other big film studios have also registered interest in the rights.

Earlier this month at a Los Angeles bankruptcy hearing Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek’s Halcyon Holding Group, the producers behind Terminator Salvation, were granted a breather to continue operating and, in turn, to continue with the opportunity to develop Terminator 5.

On the verge of closing down at the beginning of September 2009, the ruling granted them access to much needed ...

During a Los Angeles bankruptcy hearing Judge Ernest Robles has helped Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek, the producers behind Terminator Salvation, to keep their struggling Halcyon Company operating.

The ruling gives Halcyon some much needed breathing space to continue development of Terminator 5. Here’s the story in a nutshell. In 2007 California based hedge fund Pacificor lent Halcyon $30M so that they could acquire the rights to the Terminator franchise.  Halcyon state the lender then deliberately ...

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We finally get why Christian Bale was so angry at that guy on the set of Terminator. He knew that someday someone would get a copy of this commercial he did back in 1983 and upload it to YouTube, which is exactly what happened. (Or could it have been all that sugary cereal making him hyperactive?)

Although the video claims that this was Bale's big break into the TV/film industry, Wikipedia says it's actually the second commercial he did. If we find the first one anywhere online, we'll let you know.

Check it out after the jump.

Thomas Dekker, aka John Connor, tells the world there have been talks to produce a Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles movie.

Remember that McG told SCI FI Wire that he shot an R-rated version of Terminator Salvation, which was eventually released as a PG-13 movie?

Well, looks like the harder, more violent and boob-laden version will see the light of day, according to a report on UGO.com:

Sam Worthington told reporters that he takes to heart criticism of his last film, McG's Terminator Salvation, and that it'll help him make better movies in the future.

"Terminator? It was dark," Worthington told a group of reporters in London last Friday, agreeing with some of the critical responses to the movie. "There is no humor. That's what we set out to do. It's kind of humbling, the way that they describe your performance against [star] Christian's [Bale], but we have no control over that. We just have to do the best character that we can do at that time."