terminator salvation

'Terminator' looks to fight another day -- or it will cost someone a whole lot of money to sit on the shelf. And some uber-geeks around Hollywood -- including Joss Whedon -- are stepping up for their stab at getting a piece of it.

Auction rights to the 25-year-old 'Terminator' movie franchise are on the block later this month, according to England's Financial Times, with a change in ownership expected by January. The estimated price tag? More than $60 million, linking its sale to Viacom/Nickelodeon's purchase of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'

Let's be honest: You see humans every day and, frankly, it's getting a little old. Sometimes you just want an android's cold, emotionless logic and perfectly formed visage to get you through the day. Maybe you've always secretly dreamed of erotically rubbing C-3PO's shiny head or romantically cooing those three little words -- "Klaatu barada nikto" -- into Gort's tin ear. Whatever your desire, movies have provided us countless androids, cyborgs, robots and mechas, sent to love ('A.I.'), help ('Aliens') and destroy ('Terminator') us.

In honor of 'Surrogates,' Jonathan Mostow's new sci-fi flick about isolated humans interacting with each other through their better-looking robotic selves, we manufactured a list of the 14 sexiest androids to give you, dear human, the definitive list of machines that raise our blood pressure and power us up.

Folks, please try to hold back those tears ... but the summer movie season is officially over. That means that for quite some time to come there will be a distinct lack of $200 million-budgeted movies about Megan Fox's chest, er, gargantuan robots or about a boy wizard grappling with a messianic calling (and puberty) or about an iron-clawed mutant suffering from memory loss. And while for some moviegoers, any tears shed would be of joy over this fact, of one thing there is no doubt: Summer 2009 was epic at the box office. Get the scoop on this summer's B.O. winners ... and losers.

'Terminator Salvation' has a big opening day, Michael Moore's new documentary about the economic crisis lands an October release date and Lyndsy Fonseca joins John Cuscak for some time traveling in 'Hot Tub Time Machine.'

'Empire' king, 'Dark Knight' and the 'Salvation' of McG ...

In his 23-year career, Christian Bale has played a 'Swing'-dancing Hitler Youth, a mass-murdering 'American Psycho' and a crime-fighting 'Dark Knight.' He's dropped and gained tons of weight for roles, lit up the screen in both indies and blockbusters, and starred in the second highest-grossing movie of all time.

With two huge roles on tap this summer, in the man-vs.-robot reboot 'Terminator Salvation' and the John Dillinger shoot-'em-up 'Public Enemies,' we look at Bale's greatest moments of all time.

Before 'Terminator Salvation' hits theaters, we catch up with casts of the first three 'T' flicks.

Where has the cast of the first three 'Terminator' movies -- 1984's 'Terminator,' '91's 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day,' 2003's 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' -- gone? Mostly they've been terminated. In fact, only two actors (Arnie's one, do you know the other?) have appeared in all three films.

As we approach the release of the fourth movie in the series, 'Terminator: Salvation' (May 21), we catch up with the faces -- human and not so much -- that have populated the franchise.

Jackman fights, Kidman bails and more ...

Fresh off his stint in 'Wolverine,' Hugh Jackman has signed on to play the hero again, this time as a 19th century frontiersman who has to rescue Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson from a Comanche war party. And we doubt he'll have the advantage of retractable adamantium claws.

In other news, Nicole Kidman bails on Woody Allen's latest film, some lucky moviegoers will get seats that mimic the action in 'Terminator,' and Kevin Spacey is 'Casino Jack.'

Get the latest scoop on blockbuster deals, casting coups, hot scripts and news from the set of Hollywood's biggest projects.

Arnold will be back ... and so with the Ninja Turtles ... and 'Predator' ...

Life can be hectic, insane even -- and we here at Moviefone sympathize with that. Movie fans don't have all day to bump around from site to site digging for the newest must-see trailers, latest casting news and what not.

That's why we're making things easy: We've compiled the 10 hottest movie trailers, casting tidbits, viral videos and hilarious blog rants to make waves in the movie world over the past seven days and put them all in one spot -- just for you.

From Ahnuld's not-so-surprising cameo in 'Terminator Salvation' to the very surprising returns of live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' and 'Predators,' behold the 10 most buzzed about things in movies this week.

Ahnuld may be baaack, Jolie plays doctor and more ...

He'll be baaack ... maybe. Though he wasn't able to take time out of his busy gubernatorial schedule to shoot a cameo for 'Terminator Salvation,' Arnold Schwarzenegger says he may still appear in the film -- if Warner Bros. can find a way to incorporate footage of him from the original 'Terminator.'

In other news, Angelina Jolie is set to play Dr. Kay Scarpetta in a film based on Patricia Cornwell's best-selling mystery novel series, Robert Downey Jr. dishes on 'Iron Man 2,' and studios are dishing out millions to have writers tailor screenplays to the suddenly in-demand-again Tom Cruise.

Get the latest scoop on blockbuster deals, casting coups, hot scripts and news from the set of Hollywood's biggest projects.

Pattinson's suffers an embarrassing injury, 'Terminator' tones it down and more ...

Life can be hectic, insane even -- and we here at Moviefone sympathize with that. Movie fans don't have all day to bump around from site to site digging for the newest must-see trailers, latest casting news and what not.

That's why we're making things easy: We've compiled the 10 hottest movie trailers, casting tidbits, viral videos and hilarious blog rants to make waves in the movie world over the past seven days and put them all in one spot -- just for you.

From Rob Pattinson's embarrassing butt injury to the termination of Moon Bloodgood nudity in 'Terminator' to Freddy Krueger's makeover, here are the 10 most buzzed about things in movies this week.