“The Terminator” may have put James Cameron on the Hollywood map in 1984, but forty years on, the film’s production values still irk him. EW reports (via Empire) that Cameron still has quibbles with his breakout film.  Not surprising to hear from a director who loves to revisit his movies and tinker with their remasters, but when is James Cameron ever satisfied with success?

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“I don’t think of it as some Holy Grail, that’s for sure,” Cameron told Empire in an interview for the sci-fi film’s 40th anniversary.

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Diminishing returns is a term used in business quite a bit. It’s the idea that eventually, over time, a product just doesn’t perform as it did previously. In film, there’s no better example of this than the “Terminator” franchise. After the first two films were released (and went on to become sci-fi/action classics), the franchise has continued to pump out sequels with diminishing returns, both creatively and financially. Though Arnold Schwarzenegger, the poster child for the franchise, believes the franchise will continue in the future, he’s finally ready to call it quits. 

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Google has been trying to make a play as a serious streaming competitor along the lines of Netflix and Amazon for a while now. Though its YouTube platform is built on user-created content, with YouTube Premium, the company hopes that more typical films and TV series can help make the service one of the biggest streaming companies out there. And its latest initiative is something we’ve yet to see with other major platforms — free, ad-supported feature films.

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Everyone likes a happy ending to a film, right? At least that’s what studios think. But as many film fans know, a happy ending only suits a film if it is earned and fits the overall tone of the project. And one film that really doesn’t need a truly happy ending is James Cameron’s classic “The Terminator.” However, if the studio had its way, fans might have had a very different film.

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The ‘Terminator‘ franchise has burned us before. The first two films, directed by James Cameron, are both classics, with ‘T2’ generally regarded as one of the greatest action films of all time. But since then the decline in quality for the ‘Terminator’ films has been steep.

The low-mark might be the most recent entry, “Terminator: Genisys,” which hoped to reboot the franchise.

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Just when we thought the “The Terminator” franchise was all but dead, James Cameron announced his unexpected return for a new trilogy.

The last two films, “Terminator: Salvation” and “Terminator: Genisys,” were soul-crushing. After those debacles, the only way many fans would hop back onboard would be if James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Linda Hamilton all decided to return.

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It would seem that James Cameron is riding out the rest of his career making movies that no one seems to have a real interest in. He’s directing four “Avatar” sequels (no thanks), and producing yet another “Terminator” rebootquel thing or whatever, that will once again see Arnold Schwarzenegger lumber around as the T-800, in what will set up a new trilogy of movies.

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“T2: Judgement Day,” James Cameron‘s blistering sequel to 1984’s “The Terminator” is being re-released at the end of the month in newly restored form, but, more importantly, in glorious 3D. The 1991 classic was much more of an action movie than its predecessor. It’s hard to believe that it had initially garnered mixed reviews before being re-evaluated years later as a technical and visceral masterpiece.

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You can say this about Arnold Schwarzenegger, he’s certainly passionate about the various projects he has cooking, and the characters he’s played over the years. For example, it’s been a long time since we even thought about “Triplets,” the proposed sequel to his 1988 hit “Twins,” but never one to let an opportunity get wasted, the actor is once again promising it’ll happen.

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James Cameron, who is currently in the process of making four sequels to “Avatar,” certainly knows a thing or two about squeezing a movie property until there’s nothing left to give. The man behind the groundbreaking “The Terminator” and the iconic “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” (which is headed to theaters next month in an unnecessary 3D re-release) has watched over the years as the series he started has run itself into the ground.

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“I’ll be back,” he said (again, again and again). The news arrived several months after the indifferent response to “Terminator Genisys,” at least domestically (the film made $400 million worldwide, but still well short of expectations): the “Terminator” series would receive the reboot treatment yet again. The additional plus for fans was the revelation that James Cameron would return as the executive producer/”godfather” and “Deadpool” filmmaker Tim Miller would direct (“Deadpool” obviously giving him all the juice).

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If there was ever a time where sci-fi was seen as something only for geeks, that time has long gone. You could debate the exact point at which it changed — when Stanley Kubrick’s “2001” had audiences dropping acid for a better trip, when the blockbuster success of “Star Wars” changed film forever, when comic book movies dominated screens, when CGI made it possible to do almost anything, when even nerdy old “Star Trek” got a sleek, hip makeover — but there’s no doubt that the genre is firmly within the mainstream.

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Over the past few months, there have been clear indications that “The Terminator” franchise is pivoting. Back in December it was revealed that “Deadpool” helmer Tim Miller had been tapped to direct a reboot that would be produced by James Cameron. Then last month came confirmation that any followups to “Terminator Genisys” had been scrapped, along with Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s involvement in the series, with the promise of big news to come later in the year.

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As everyone knows, “Terminator Genisys” was not the reboot/retcon Paramount were hoping for. Even though Arnold Schwarzenegger returned, the confusing narrative did the film no favors, and audiences were largely disinterested (except in China, where the movie did quite well). The studio swiftly took a planned sequel off the schedule, and then came the news a couple months back that “The Terminator” was going to be rebooted with “Deadpool” helmer Tim Miller directing, all but ensuring anything ‘Genisys’-related was scrapped.

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If you’ve felt rumblings in the ground and ripples in your water glasses in the last few days, that’s because monsters are on the way. Or more accurately, they’re on an island in the Pacific, the setting for “Kong: Skull Island,” Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ thoroughly enjoyable reboot of the giant ape franchise. The film doesn’t just include the massive monkey made famous in the 1933 original, but also pits him and the human cast against a menagerie of inventive giant beasts that make up the rest of the population of the titular archipelago, as well as setting it up as part of an ongoing WB/Legendary monster universe that will eventually pit Kong against Godzilla.

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