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The Babylon 5 animated movie now has an official title and voice cast, including several members of the original series reprising their roles. Babylon 5 is a multimedia franchise that began as a space opera series that premiered on Pten in 1993 and went on to run for 5 seasons and a total of 110 episodes and 6 TV movies. The series, which has since spawned several spinoffs, novel adaptations, and comic books, followed the lives of the crew of the titular five-mile-long space station during a time of intergalactic political turmoil.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, the Babylon 5 animated movie that was teased by creator J. Michael Straczynski is officially titled Babylon 5: The Road Home. The film will be a multiversal odyssey following John Sheridan (original star Bruce Boxleitner) as he is unwittingly transported into alternate universes and timelines and must find his way back home. The cast also features returning cast...

EC Comics' 1950's science fiction title "Weird Fantasy" is being developed as an episodic TV anthology, following a partnership between the estate of EC Comics publisher William M. Gaines and Hivemind ("The Expanse"), for producers Hunter Gorinson, Gaines' daughter Cathy Mifsud and her son Corey Mifsud:

Published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, "Weird Fantasy" comic books are rare and highly prized...

...showcasing the best comic book illustrators in the business including Feldstein... 

...Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, George Roussos, Reed Crandall, Will Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kamen and John Severin.

"...the most controversial story at the time was "Judgment Day" (1953), featuring 'Tarlton', an astronaut from the 'Galactic Republic', who explores 'Cybrinia' a planet populated by orange and blue robots. 

"Tarlton realizes the blue robots are treated horribly and given fewer rights than the orange robots...

"...despite the fact they are identical except for their color.

Netflix is ringing in the new year in atypical fashion. Throughout 2021, the streaming giant’s original offerings swelled while its library titles shrunk. With its list of new releases for January 2022, however, Netflix is expanding its non-original market quite a bit.

Jan. 1 sees the arrival of a truly stunning amount of impressive non-Netflix movies and TV shows. The big titles available on the first of the month include: 300, Interview with the Vampire, Paranormal Activity, Superman Returns, Terminator 2, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and much more. Later on in the month, Netflix is also set to add Phantom Thread (Jan. 16) to its roster.

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Though Netflix is lighter on original content in January 2022, there is still plenty of intriguing titles to check out.

Netflix will start 2022 with a number of series and film debuts, including the first part of the final season of “Ozark” and “Home Team,” a comedy about NFL coach Sean Payton starring Kevin James. But beyond its originals, Netflix will welcome a number of major library titles, among them “Phantom Thread” from Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Picture winner “Braveheart,” Ben Affleck’s blockbuster hit “The Town,” Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” and Joel and Ethan Coen’s “True Grit.”

Ahead, everything coming to Netflix in January 2022 – plus what movies will expire from the platform in January 2022 as well.

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All of Us Are Dead — Netflix Series

A zombie virus breaks out fast inside a school. Endangered students fight to survive and escape.

I Am Georgina — Netflix Series

A revealing look at the life of Georgina Rodríguez: model, mother, influencer,...

When the coronavirus shut down the world down last year, two things gave Bruce Dickinson some peace of mind: Iron Maiden had finished recording their upcoming 17th album, Senjutsu, in 2019, and he could quarantine with “somebody I actually like,” his girlfriend. It all went pretty well for a little bit.

“The sun was out for the first part of it, and it was like a novelty at first,” the singer says in his typically upbeat way via a Zoom call. “I was stuck in Paris in my girlfriend’s apartment,...

Have you ever wanted to see the ending of Terminator 2: Judgment Day in Claymation? Well, now you can. All thanks to the sci-fi site Dust. And more specifically, thanks to Joseph Brett, the man who actually created the clip for Dust. As those who have seen Judgment Day will know, a lot is going on at the ending of the film.

In one of the most emotional parts of the movie, the black-handed glove of the T-800, as played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, slowly descends into molten lead. Simultaneously giving John (Edward Furlong) and Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) a thumbs up as it goes to its doom.

"In the original shot there's a lot of chaotic elements like smoke, fire, sparks, liquid metal, so figuring out how to keep that energy without having too many elements to animate was interesting," Brett said. "The method ended up being fairly straightforward, but...

Young adult horror fans (and those who are young adult at heart) will have a great time scrolling through Netflix in July 2021.

The streaming giant announced the new original movies and series coming to the service in July, as well as the library titles it will feature for the foreseeable future.

Among the biggest projects include a trilogy of “Fear Street” films from director Leigh Janiak (“Honeymoon”) and based on the teen horror franchise by R.L. Stine. The three movies will debut over consecutive weeks on Netflix, with the first dropping July 2.

The other big movie project coming to Netflix in July is “The Last Letter from Your Lover,” a time-spanning romance from novelist Jojo Moyes and filmmaker Augustine Frizzell starring Shailene Woodley and Oscar-nominee Felicity Jones.

On the archival front, some major movies arriving on Netflix include all five films in the “Twilight” franchise, the original “Karate Kid” trilogy,...

Resilience pays off.

That was the main message to take from The Equalizer Season 1 Episode 3, which found Robin trying to save a man who was failed by the system.

The wrong person being sent away for crimes is hardly new, but by biding his time before making his escape from prison, Dale kickstarted the unraveling of the truth.

This further shows that Robin's form of justice is working better than anything else right now. Had she not been online awaiting a new mission, Dale would probably have been sent back to his cell to rot until his death.

I appreciated the way Robin was conflicted about taking on the case. Had she failed to believe Dale was innocent, she would have never given the case the time of day.

The media had skewered Dale to the point that his own son deemed him the villain in the narrative, and...

EC Comics' 1950's science fiction title "Weird Fantasy" is being developed as an episodic TV anthology, following a partnership between the estate of EC Comics publisher William M. Gaines and Hivemind ("The Expanse"), for producers Hunter Gorinson, Gaines' daughter Cathy Mifsud and her son Corey Mifsud:

Published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, "Weird Fantasy" comic books are rare and highly prized...

...showcasing the best comic book illustrators in the business including Feldstein... 

...Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, George Roussos, Reed Crandall, Will Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kamen and John Severin.

"...the most controversial story at the time was "Judgment Day" (1953), featuring 'Tarlton', an astronaut from the 'Galactic Republic', who explores 'Cybrinia' a planet populated by orange and blue robots. 

"Tarlton realizes the blue robots are treated horribly and given fewer rights than the orange robots...

"...despite the fact they are identical except for their color.

Do people care about the Terminator franchise anymore? Three failed reboots in the space of ten years would say no after none of them made enough money to justify launching the brand new trilogy they all promised. The box office returns of most recent installment Dark Fate would also say no, as it wound up as the lowest-grossing entry since James Cameron’s low budget original 35 years previously and lost over $120 million. Even Mackenzie Davis doesn’t think so, and she signed a multi-picture deal and took third billing in said bomb.

However, much like Judgment Day, another stab at Terminator feels inevitable as the brand desperately clings on to its last remaining shreds of relevancy. Something drastic is required at this stage to stop the rot, and recent history has shown that throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at it and constantly bringing back Arnold Schwarzenegger simply doesn’t work.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day has aged like a fine wine and will undoubtedly go down in history as one of Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron’s best movies. It was a smash hit on its 1991 release, with its groundbreaking CGI special effects heralding the modern era of filmmaking. Since then, it’s been reissued in many different formats and cuts, most notably a remastered 3D version supervised by Cameron that reached theaters in 2017.

You’d think after all those commentaries, making ofs and retrospectives, there’d be nothing new to learn about the movie. Not so, though, as during last week’s Kindergarten Cop virtual reunion, Arnie recounted what happened when his daughter visited him on set.

As you’d expect, most of these visits were a whole bunch of fun given Schwarzenegger’s co-stars and the grandiose props and costumes that mark his films. But the Terminator 2...

Over the last 30 years, very few action blockbusters have even come close to matching the quality of James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, so the following four installments in the sci-fi franchise never really stood a chance. One of the most spectacle-driven movies ever produced, it was as revolutionary as it was successful.

The boundary-pushing visual effects kicked the doors open for the CGI revolution, the $102 million budget made it the most expensive production in history at the time, Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s $15 million paycheck turned him into the highest-paid star in the industry, and a box office haul of $520.9 million saw Judgment Day become the biggest hit of 1991, and it reigned as the highest-grossing R-rated movie for a dozen years until The Matrix Reloaded came along.

That’s an awful lot of superlatives to throw around, but one thing T2 couldn’t do is stop Schwarzenegger’s daughter from marrying an actor,...

John Connor is the single most important character in the Terminator franchise in terms of the mythology, with all six movies so far revolving around the idea of him being humanity’s savior in the war against Skynet. However, despite his importance to every major storyline threaded throughout the messy timeline over the last four decades, the role has been recast with reckless abandon as the series constantly attempts to reboot and reinvent itself, only to fall victim to the law of diminishing returns.

When most fans think of John Connor, their mind instantly turns to Edward Furlong, who played the role in Judgment Day, was de-aged for a cameo in Dark Fate and also appeared in theme park attraction T2-3D: Battle Across Time, which is considered canon by James Cameron. Michael Edwards, Nick Stahl, Christian Bale and Jason Clarke have all inherited the mantle on the big screen as well,...

After enduring four mediocre installments between 2003 and 2019, the poor box office performance of Dark Fate looked to have hammered the final nail into the coffin of the Terminator franchise. Despite the high hopes that came attached with James Cameron’s long-awaited return and the best reviews since Judgment Day two decades previously, audiences just didn’t seem to be interested in the series anymore.

Of course, that’s completely understandable after Dark Fate marked the third time in ten years that we’d been told this all-new Terminator movie would be the first installment of a trilogy that was going to return to the roots of what made Cameron’s duology so successful in the first place. Four sequels on from Judgment Day, though, and the second effort is still the high point of the franchise from a critical and commercial perspective.

However, history has shown on innumerable occasions that...

The Walking Dead is returning in February 2021. This week, AMC confirmed that we can expect to see the next batch of episodes from the post-apocalyptic drama arrive in a few months’ time and now, we’ve got a bunch of new synopses which tease what what’s to come when the series resumes for season 10C, which is a special six-part mini-season produced to keep us entertained while we wait for the eleventh and final run.

First of all, this overall synopsis reminds us where things left off as well as promising a crisis of faith for the survivors as they ponder the state of the world, humanity and their own souls in the wake of the defeat of the Whisperers. This fits with how showrunner Angela Kang has teased “a deep dive into the characters” in these episodes.

“Last on The Walking Dead, we witnessed the fall of Alpha...

A great deal of Terminator fans were hoping that James Cameron’s long-awaited return to the franchise would arrest the gradual decline in quality that plagued the three sequels that followed in the wake of the filmmaker’s first two classics. Despite being actively involved as a producer, though, as well as having a hand in developing the story, Cameron’s presence wasn’t enough to stop Dark Fate from bombing at the box office.

The sixth installment won plenty of praise and was named by many as the best entry in the series since Judgment Day almost 30 years previously, but a succession of subpar follow-ups looked to have sapped any interest that audiences had in seeing more adventures set in the world that Cameron had created 35 years ago. And so, the pic ultimately ended up being yet another disappointment for the property.

New Terminator: Dark Fate Images Show...

James Gunn‘s Peacemaker cast just got a little bigger. The writer/director’s forthcoming HBO Max series is a spin-off of his upcoming The Suicide Squad movie, which centers on the title character played by John Cena. Now, Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Jennifer Holland (Brightburn), and Chris Conrad (Patriot) […]

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When James Cameron dropped Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1992, it cracked the planet in two with its monstrous success. It was the quintessential sequel - bigger, badder and more exciting than its platinum-grade predecessor. James Cameron had struck gold once again, paving his way for future projects like the 1990s Oscar-winning Titanic.

Related: The 10 Best Terminator Rip-Offs, Ranked According To IMDb

However, the studio wasn't ready to pull the plug on the Terminator franchise just yet. They moved forward with a third installment that did not include Cameron in the director's chair. Terminator 3 was a divisive action sequel that remains controversial to this very day. Here are just a few things about its wild production that most fans didn't know.

EC Comics' 22-issue, pre-Comics Code title "Weird Fantasy" (1950), is being developed as an episodic TV anthology, following a partnership between the estate of EC Comics publisher William M Gaines and Hivemind ("The Expanse"), for producers Hunter Gorinson, Gaines' daughter Cathy Mifsud and her son Corey Mifsud:

Published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, "Weird Fantasy" comic books are rare and highly prized...

...showcasing the best comic book illustrators in the business including Feldstein...

...Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, George Roussos, Reed Crandall, Will Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kamen and John Severin.

"...the most controversial story was "Judgment Day" (1953), featuring 'Tarlton', an astronaut from the 'Galactic Republic', who explores 'Cybrinia' a planet populated by orange and blue robots. 

"Tarlton realizes the blue robots are treated horribly and given fewer rights than the orange robots...

"...despite the fact they are identical except for their color.

For decades, time travel movies have remained one of Hollywood’s favorite sub-genres and fans can’t seem to get enough of them. The core concept is incredibly malleable and can be applied to almost every type of filmmaking. Inevitably, though, any time a new title arrives that features a heavy time travel element, the science will always end up being picked apart by both eagle-eyed viewers or pedants with nothing better to do.

Shane Carruth’s Primer is lauded as the most scientifically accurate time travel movie, but most people are in agreement that Back to the Future is the best. That being said, Avengers: Endgame, the Bill & Ted franchise, The Terminator and sequel Judgment Day, Edge of Tomorrow, 12 Monkeys, Looper and About Time are all fantastic in their own way despite each one putting an entirely different spin on the central premise, while the ‘stuck in a...

Prop Store's auctions are always a treat for genre fans, because they're able to offer some of the very best props and costumes. Of course, an individual item could set you back hundreds of thousands of dollars, but this August's auction is focused on sci-fi movies and features items from Alien, Men in Black, Event Horizon, Judge Dredd, and many more! Even if you're not planning to bid, it's worth taking a look at their catalogue to see what they're offering. You can find all of the important details below:

"Next month's auction, brings one of the most significant and largest spaceships that we've ever handled to the block: the Nostromo from Ridley Scott's Alien (1979). The Nostromo stands among spaceship icons like the Millennium Falcon and the Discovery from 2001, and this is the primary model used throughout filming. It measures a massive 11 feet in length and originally had systems for lighting and CO2 effects.

EC Comics' 22-issue, pre-Comics Code dark fantasy series "Weird Fantasy" (1950), is being developed as an episodic TV anthology, following a partnership between the estate of EC Comics publisher William M Gaines and Hivemind ("The Expanse"), for producers Hunter Gorinson, Gaines' daughter Cathy Mifsud and her son Corey Mifsud:

Published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, "Weird Fantasy" comic books are rare and highly prized...

...showcasing the best comic book illustrators in the business including Feldstein...

...Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, George Roussos, Reed Crandall, Will Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kamen and John Severin.

"...the most controversial story was "Judgment Day" (1953), featuring 'Tarlton', an astronaut from the 'Galactic Republic', who explores 'Cybrinia' a planet populated by orange and blue robots. 

"Tarlton realizes the blue robots are treated horribly and given fewer rights than the orange robots...

"...despite the fact they are identical except for their color.

After failing to make a good Terminator movie since 1991’s Judgment Day, even though they tried four times to get it right, the box office disappointment of last year’s Dark Fate may have hammered the final nail into the long-running franchise’s coffin.

Boasting the returns of both James Cameron and Linda Hamilton, Dark Fate was the third reboot that promised to launch an all-new Terminator trilogy in the space of just ten years, but once the numbers were in, it quickly joined Salvation and Genisys on the scrapheap after failing to make it past the first hurdle.

Even though the sixth installment was receiving the best reviews since Judgment Day almost three decades previously, it appeared that fans had been burned by disappointing Terminator movies one too many times already, while general audiences just didn’t seem to care much about the franchise at all anymore.

New Terminator...

Mortal Kombat 11 is getting a huge expansion update in May, turning it into Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath. More story mode stuff, Friendships, Stage Fatalities, and new characters will be added. But the big news is the inclusion of guest fighter RoboCop, complete with voice work from actor Peter Weller.

While seeing RoboCop arrest the Joker or compare notes with Spawn about being resurrected by the corrupt will likely make for some fun moments in the game, the big selling point is the inevitable match-up between RoboCop vs. Terminator. It’s a fight nerds have been arguing about for decades and now NetherRealm Studios is building on Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath’s release by putting a spotlight on this cyber clash.

The studio released two trailers showing off a match between the two cyborgs. Here’s round one:

And here’s round two:

What’s really cool about that first clip...

As the weather gets hotter and the film industry continues to face an uncertain future, one thing is crystal clear: There will be plenty of new movies to watch this summer — good ones, in fact — but there isn’t going to be a Summer Movie Season. There isn’t going to be a major blockbuster that makes you feel like a kid again (unless “Tenet” surprises); there isn’t going to be a silly comedy that you’ll associate with the smell of artificial popcorn butter for the rest of your life; there isn’t going to be a small movie with mass appeal that plays in arthouse circuit until the end of August. And though it’s still only the start of May, we can already tell that we’re going to miss the cancelled 2020 Summer Movie Season more than we ever would have guessed.

So we decided to...

Fighting game old and busted: Dead or Alive 6.

Fighting game new hotness: “Dead or alive, you are coming with me.”

NetherRealm Studios’ Mortal Kombat 11 is going to be upgraded to Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath on May 26. There are a lot of neat things that will come with this Dlc, such as a new cinematic storyline, new stages, the return of Friendships, and a handful of new characters. Characters like Sheeva the Shokan warrior queen and Fujin, God of Wind.

The biggest news is that those two will be joined by RoboCop. Yes, the protector of future Detroit and occasional alter ego of Colonel Sanders is on his way to Mortal Kombat.

I’ll buy that for a dollar! Or forty of them, since that’s the going price for the upgrade.

What’s especially sweet about this is that they got Peter Weller to voice the character! I’m already...

EC Comics' 22-issue, pre-Comics Code dark fantasy series "Weird Fantasy" (1950), is being developed as an episodic TV anthology, following a partnership between the estate of EC Comics publisher William M Gaines and Hivemind ("The Expanse"), for producers Hunter Gorinson, Gaines' daughter Cathy Mifsud and her son Corey Mifsud:

Published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, "Weird Fantasy" comic books are rare and highly prized...

...showcasing the best comic book illustrators in the business including Feldstein...

...Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, George Roussos, Reed Crandall, Will Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kamen and John Severin.

"...the most controversial story was "Judgment Day" (1953), featuring 'Tarlton', an astronaut from the 'Galactic Republic', who explores 'Cybrinia' a planet populated by orange and blue robots. 

"Tarlton realizes the blue robots are treated horribly and given fewer rights than the orange robots...

"...despite the fact they are identical except for their color.

Having been burned by three disappointing Terminator sequels in a row, fans should have tempered their expectations when it came to Dark Fate, even with James Cameron and Linda Hamilton making their long-awaited returns to the franchise. Ironically, most reviews reached the conclusion that it was the best installment since 1991, but the movie’s poor box office performance may have inadvertently hammered the final nail in the coffin for the long-running sci-fi series.

It was estimated that Dark Fate could end up losing over $100 million for Paramount, and now the figure has been revealed as an eye-watering $122.6 million. Despite strong critical reactions and the return of several of the franchise’s stalwarts, it just seems as though audiences simply aren’t interested in a series that started in 1984 and has spent the last three decades rebooting itself to repetitively mediocre results.

New Terminator: Dark Fate Images Show Off Schwarzenegger...

For the fourth time in a row, fans were given a new Terminator movie that failed to live up to the impossibly high bar set by James Cameron’s first two installments. Even with Cameron back onboard as producer and co-writer, Terminator: Dark Fate may have signaled the final nail in the coffin for the stuttering sci-fi franchise, after disappointing at the box office and losing up to $100 million in the process.

It may have scored the best reviews of any new entry since Judgment Day, but that didn’t qualify Dark Fate as a great movie on its own merits. There were some good ideas in the story, but overall it marked yet another formulaic actioner, albeit one carried by the charisma of legacy players Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.

Hamilton’s return in particular was almost unanimously praised, as she seamlessly stepped back into the grizzled and world-weary...

When Ben Affleck was first cast as Batman in a new movie from director Zack Sndyer, the response from the public was, uh, intense to say the least. I wrote at the time about why the outcry was dumb—after all, there was fan outcry over Heath Ledger’s casting as Joker and he turned in an iconic performance. Better to wait and see what Affleck would do with the role rather than jump to snap judgments. Judgment Day came in 2016, when Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hit theaters. This Man of Steel follow-up was an even …...

Linda Hamilton may be “done” playing Sarah Connor.

The actress, 63, shared her reluctance to reprise her iconic role in a new interview published Wednesday, telling The Hollywood Reporter that she “would be quite happy to never return” to the Terminator franchise.

When asked about starring in a follow-up to 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate, which took in $261 million at the worldwide box office, she told the publication, “I would really appreciate maybe a smaller version, where so many millions are not at stake. Today’s audience is just so unpredictable.”

“I can’t tell you how many laymen just go, ‘Well,...

Last year, the Terminator franchise was revived with Terminator: Dark Fate. For the first time since Judgment Day, franchise creator James Cameron was involved in a meaningful way, with Deadpool director Tim Miller at the helm. Not only that, but both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton were back sharing the screen together, which was no small thing. But to keep the franchise moving and evolving, they needed to bring in a new terminator. And that new Terminator was Gabriel Luna.

Terminator: Dark Fate has made its way to home video and is available on Digital HD, or one's preferred form of physical media. I was lucky enough to speak with Gabriel Luna about the movie and what it took for him to become our new Terminator. It was a long road, but a rewarding one for him as an actor.

"They brought me in December of 2017 and so began what was probably a four-month process,...

David Crow Jan 30, 2020

Linda Hamilton is not hopeful about there being another movie after Terminator: Dark Fate but she'd "really love to be done."

I’ll be back. Once simply a clever piece of dialogue in The Terminator (1984), that line has become a self-fulfilling prophecy for the franchise that followed. After five sequels and a spinoff television series—each retconning and contradicting the other sequels in their own ways—it feels like the franchise could never die. It even looked healthier than it’d been in decades with Terminator: Dark Fate, a competent if uninspiring legacy sequel to the original two films.

Yet one of the franchise’s greatest stars appears ready to accept that Terminator will not be back after Terminator: Dark Fate’s weak box office performance. Grossing only $261 million at the global box office, the reboot that was intended to kick off a new trilogy of films...

The last few years have seen a flurry of films designed to retcon away undesirable entries in long-standing franchises. 2016’s Blair Witch treated the events of Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 as a movie-within-a-movie as it continued the story of the 1999 independent film The Blair Witch Project; 2018’s Halloween ignored all nine installments in that franchise after the 1978 original; and this year’s forthcoming Candyman follow-up intends to ignore 1995’s Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh and 1999’s Candyman: Day of the Dead, while Ghostbusters: Afterlife will disregard 2016’s franchise reboot Ghostbusters: Answer the Call.

The most recent entry in this incredibly niche genre is 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate, Tim Miller’s disappointing second directorial effort after 2016’s Deadpool. The sixth big-screen installment in James Cameron’s science-fiction franchise serves as a direct sequel to 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which is widely regarded as one of the greatest sequels ever produced.

(Spoilers ahead for “Terminator: Dark Fate”)

The “Terminator” franchise is a weird thing because the powers-that-be behind these movies have made repeated attempts to soft reboot the series over the past decade. In Hollywood, parlance, a “reboot” is a fresh start — with a “hard” reboot meaning the franchise begins again from scratch, and a “soft” reboot involving an attempt to sort of refresh the series while still acknowledging the previous films. “Salvation” tried to reboot the series into being about the future post-apocalyptic war against the machines. “Genisys” tried to recontextualize the battle through time in order to dramatically alter the franchise dynamic. And “Terminator: Dark Fate” tries to just do it again with new people and also the old people — not unlike what “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” did.

Part of what “Dark Fate” does to reset things involves getting rid of some of the franchise’s existing x-factors.

Whether it’s because of endless delays, fan demands, a director’s passion project or a cash grab reboot that seemingly no one ever actually wanted, Hollywood has produced an enormous amount of sequels to beloved films full decades after they originally hit theaters. Some of them have been wildly successful with critics and audiences, and others we’re just pretending never existed. Here are some of the sequels that took forever to hit the screen.

“Bad Boys For Life” (2020)

There had been talk for years about getting the boys back together, and the reunion finally happened this year, with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence teaming up for one last ride. This time however Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah are taking over directing duties from Michael Bay.

George Miller took nearly 30 years to follow up “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” with the Tom Hardy-Charlize Theron thriller “Mad Max: Fury Road.

Ryan Lambie Dec 7, 2017

He headed up the groundbreaking VFX on James Cameron’s T2: Judgment Day. We talk to Ilm effects legend, Dennis Muren...

At Industrial Light & Magic, Dennis Muren has worked on some of the most eye-popping movies of the past 40 years. Beginning with Star Wars in 1977, Muren has gone on to win a stunning nine Oscars for his visual effects work - often shared with such industry colleagues as Richard Edlund, Carlo Rambaldi and Phil Tippett.

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For the purpose of this interview, though, we’re focusing on a landmark in CGI: 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day. As we already saw in our main feature this week, James Cameron’s sci-fi action sequel took all...

The biggest issue that the Terminator films had was that they used a very specific date for “Judgment Day”, a date that passed over 20 years ago. The third film tried to fix this issue by moving the date, saying… Continue Reading →

The post Arnold Schwarzenegger Discusses How the New Terminator Film Will Deal With The Franchise’s Confusing Timeline appeared first on Dread Central.

We’re only a few days away from the highly-anticipated debut of Stranger Things 2, and Netflix has dropped one last trailer to promote their supernatural sci-fi hit. You know what that means: it’s time to dive in and try to uncover whatever secrets we can from the new footage…of which there is plenty. Join us for our final Stranger […]

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The small town of Hawkins sits at the edge of judgment day in Netflix's final trailer for Stranger Things Season 2.

You can watch the emotional new trailer below, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on the series. Stranger Things Season 2 premieres on October 27th on Netflix.

Although Will may be back at home after being missing (and hunted) for most of the first season, things are far from back to normal for everyone who was affected by his disappearance. As evidenced by the new trailer below, the Upside Down—and the creatures that inhabit it—is seeping into our own world... with deadly results.

Season 2 synopsis: "It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demogorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived.

The Terminator franchise has slowly been ground into a fine powder in the 26 years since T2: Judgment Day hit theaters. Every attempt to revive the series has fallen flat from a direct sequel (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) to one that ditched Arnold Schwarzenegger’s terminator to focus on John Connor (Terminator: Salvation) to one that attempted to be a time-hopping legacyquel (Terminator: Genisys) and each one does worse at the domestic box office than the one that came before. Perhaps series’ creator James Cameron can reverse that trend by being involved in the latest installment in …...

James Cameron confirms Terminator 6 will be a direct sequel to Judgment Day, ignoring the events of the last three films in the franchise.

Ryan Lambie Sep 27, 2017

The Terminator series is making its third attempt at a trilogy. But would it be better as a one-off story, Ryan wonders...

Nb: The following contains spoilers for all the Terminator films released so far.

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Genisys probably seemed like a good idea at the time. After the so-so critical and financial performance of Terminator 3 and Terminator: Salvation, the fifth entry in the series would, as far as its producers were concerned, take the saga back to its glory days: the nightmarish chases of The Terminator and the eye-popping special effects of T2, widely regarded as the franchise's high-water mark.

Nicki Minaj has gone nude…with lipsticks, that is. Given the No Frauds singer's penchant for pops of color, especially pink, it's surprising to see the rapper of many multi-colored wigs collaborate with Mac Cosmetics on a set of neutral products. Then again, the slightly suggestive idea of baring those flesh-toned colors is totally Nicki. The real question is do the products live up to the hype? Or, do they disgrace the legacy of the celebrity Mac collaborations that have come before it. If it's the latter, let the glam gods known as Taraji P. Henson, Rihanna and even Selena Quintanilla show mercy. On Judgment Day, we got our hands on a few samples, and like every celeb...

She’s back (had to do it). The Hollywood Reporter reports that “Terminator” star Linda Hamilton will return to the seminal James Cameron franchise for the latest installment of the on-going sci-fi series. The outlet reports that Cameron himself made the surprise announcement at a private event for the franchise, telling attendees, “As meaningful as she was to gender and action stars everywhere back then, it’s going to make a huge statement to have that seasoned warrior that she’s become return.”

Cameron also seems to be hopeful that the return of Hamilton as Sarah Connor — one of his, and the action world’s, best character creations — will bolster a genre still in need of change when it comes equal representation both in front of and behind the camera. He added, “There are 50-year-old, 60-year-old guys out there killing bad guys [in action films] but there isn’t an example of that for women.

Linda Hamilton will return to her iconic role of Sarah Connor, which she originally played in 1984's Terminator and 1991's T2: Judgment Day.

So far, there’s been mixed reactions to the idea of further Terminator movies, but it’s important to note that the upcoming sixth outing for the franchise will mark the first involvement of original creator James Cameron since the 1991 release of his classic Terminator sequel. He won’t be the only one coming back for more, though.

We already know that Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning to reprise his role and tonight, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Linda Hamilton, who starred in the original film and its sequel as Sarah Connor, a “waitress who’s being hunted down by an unstoppable killing machine,” is on board as well. Though exciting to hear, this also isn’t too surprising, given that we know Terminator 6 will pick up right where Judgment Day left off.

Plot details are being kept under lock and key, of course, but here’s what Cameron...

It’s a good thing I’m heading to Orlando in a week because the Universal Studios in Florida is closing one of the coolest attractions, James Cameron’s Terminator 2 3D: Battle Across Time, a direct sequel to his T2: Judgment Day that’s legit awesome. Here’s the official statement: “‘Terminator 2: 3-D’ at Universal Studios Florida will […]...

MaryAnn’s quick take… An action masterpiece newly remastered in gorgeous 4K (and rejiggered for superfluous 3D) reveals how fresh it remains not only technically but thematically. I’m “biast” (pro): love this movie, have seen it a dozen times at least

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

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August 29th? It’s Judgment Day! Or at least it would have been, 20 years ago in 1997, if not for the brave actions of mental patient Sarah Connor, her juvenile delinquent son John, and a reprogrammed T-800 killing machine sent back from the future, who didn’t even have a name, poor thing. To commemorate their selfless work, Terminator 2: Judgment Day has been newly remastered in gorgeous 4K, and also rejiggered for 3D, which is entirely superfluous: it adds nothing to the film, but at least it doesn’t detract from it...

Terminator 2__: Judgment Day is one of the most popular and influential blockbuster movies ever made. Now, more than 25 years later the movie is being re-released in theaters in 3D.