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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."

Although Terminator Salvation was initially intended to be the first part of a new Terminator trilogy, its performance at the domestic US box office led many to question whether a fifth Terminator film would happen.

Then, to everyone’s surprise, the film gunned it on the international circuit, almost doubling Star Trek’s foreign take to hit a reasonable box office haul of $341M worldwide. That led to speculation that Terminator ...

Terry Crews—the father from TV's Everybody Hates Chris and the president in Idiocracy—was proudest of his role in McG's Terminator Salvation.

What, you don't remember him?

That's because his role, short as it was, was almost cut out of the film, except for the kicker: There's a shot of Crews as a corpse.

In what reads like the prologue to a really awesome sci-fi horror movie, Fox News reports that "a Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find—grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies."

Is the Terminator film franchise terminated? Star Christian Bale had something to say about it today.

While doing press a while back for Terminator Salvation, director McG and his screenwriters Michael Ferris and John Brancato kept teasing that they had ideas for two more sequels to make a new trilogy. Of course, they would never presume to discuss specific plotlines before the audience gave them the thumbs-up that they wanted more.

James Middleton, executive producer of Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, told SCI FI Wire that he remains passionate about continuing the story of the canceled series in another format, but does not want to get anybody's hopes up. Middleton had producing credits on both the series and the film Terminator Salvation.

"I feel like I don't want to raise anybody's expectations about what's going to happen with those characters," Middleton said in an exclusive phone interview Wednesday while promoting Terminator: The Machinima Series. "I can tell you that I love those characters. I use a business term, and it sort of belies my emotional investment in these characters, but they are a great franchise asset. My passion for them is not diminished at all, and I'll just leave it at that."

Cos Lazouras, president of Halcyon Games, the producers of the Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series, told SCI FI Wire that the finale of the six-part series will feature the best action yet. The Machinima Series uses the engine of the Terminator Salvation video game to animate a new story about Blair Williams (Moon Bloodgood), two years before the events of the film.

"The stakes are raised with each episode, and I think as you can see, the cliffhangers are getting more and more dramatic," Lazouras said in an exclusive phone interview on Wednesday. "Without giving anything away, you're going to see some much more dramatic action sequences, and in one part, something that happened in her recent past that also affects the current story and a surprising take on who the Laz character is and how important he is."