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‘Terminator’ Franchise Getting Readjusted!!!

Apparently the future will have to wait since Terminator: Genisys had a disappointing run at the domestic box office, grossing only $90 million domestically so the ‘Terminator’ Franchise Getting Readjusted.

If you saw it you would understand why. It was all hype, lots of effects and lackluster when it came to the story. Genisys predisessor Terminator Salvation was incredible. And CelebNMusic247.com feels that the studio dropped the ball when they put Arnold back in the mix.

Christian Bale should have returned to do more of the franchise and they should have somehow incorporated Sam Worthington, because Genisys basically sucked.

What’s worse for the studio is that the movie budget was $155 million and they didn’t clear it domestically. Overall internationally the film brought in $350 million, but its time to lay Terminator to rest.

Of course the studio wants to readjust things, thankfully Skydance, the company behind its production, a reason to pause on its initial plans to move forward with a trilogy and television series.

CelebNMusic247.com has this report [via Collider] a conference hosted by The Wrap, Skydance Media Chief Creative Officer Dana Goldberg, who had this to say about future plans for the franchise:

“I wouldn’t say on hold, so much as re-adjusting.”

It would appear most people in the United States aren’t as nostalgic for a fifth or sixth Terminator movie. But Goldberg does make the point that others are:

“Happily, we live in the world where the domestic number had a level of importance 10 or 15 years ago — I’m not saying it’s not important, it is — but we have to play to a worldwide market. In terms of Terminator, the worldwide market paid attention, but we’re not taking the domestic number lightly.”

The importance of the international box office market has led to studios now actively creating content that specifically reflects and draws in international audiences. This is both a good and bad practice— good in the sense that it can make movies more diverse and inclusive, and bad in that when trying to please everyone, you please no one, or you lose an audience to gain another.

Luckily it seems Skydance has Skynet at their disposal to make it better, as Goldberg says the company will be actively researching what audiences responded to in Genisys:

“[We will use] data and research to do a worldwide study and really talk to audiences about what they loved, and what maybe didn’t work for them, so that the next we take with the franchise is the right one.”

This will push back any plans for the next phase of the Terminator-verse. The future will just have to wait.

Let’s lay the franchise to rest and put the Terminator out of its misery: