7 posts and columns on Terminator Salvation

Viral Videos: 10 Most Viewed Movie Trailers Online, Including "Mega Shark"–But Is Trouble Ahead for Hollywood?

in News on January 4, 2010 at 3:06 am PT

BoomTown has been struck by the $1 billion-plus haul that tech-heavy “Avatar” brought in over the holidays. Does this mean movies in theaters are holding their own against online incursions? It would seem so, according to box office reports for the year. Tallies for the U.S. alone were up 10 percent to close to $10 billion for 2009. Or is there trouble ahead for Hollywood, since another key revenue stream–DVD sales–is weakening at an even faster pace?
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"Terminator" Terminated? Actually, Restructured!

in News on September 29, 2009 at 12:41 am PT

Memo to all Cyborg Geeks: “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology….We can make him better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.” Wait, that’s “The Six Million Dollar Man” motto! But it might as well apply to the Hollywood outfit that owns the “Terminator” movie franchise.
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D-Day: In the Seventh Year, We Didn't Rest (Mostly Because of Meetings)

in News on May 26, 2009 at 12:07 am PT

We launch the seventh D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif., today, after a long weekend of preparations and way too many meetings, as you can see in the video below. (Including packing the mountain of swag bags for attendees, upon which one of my kids sits in this photo.) The conference kicks off with an evening interview tonight with Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams.
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It Won't Be Baaaaaaack: "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" Canceled (But Here's a Resistance Video From John Connor!)

in News on May 19, 2009 at 12:04 am PT

Big, giant and prolonged sigh–as well as a cranky-old-lady shake of the fist–to our distant cousins over at the Fox television network who dinged BoomTown’s favorite sci-fi show, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” today. I am officially in a Summer Glau funk, with major gadget withdrawal. Loosely based on the movie franchise, the show garnered a passionate fan base online and off, but not enough to merit being renewed. It’s ironic since the latest film in the cyborg-versus-man epic, “Terminator Salvation,” will open this Thursday. But one of the TV show’s stars is fighting back online. All hail the Resistance!
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Here Comes the Summer Movie Geektravaganza: Trek to Demons to Bots to Cyborgs to Potter!

in News on May 4, 2009 at 12:34 pm PT

With bootleg copies ripped on the Internet or not and with an $87 million opening weekend for “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” it looks like the nerdiest summer movie season ever is off the races. Hollywood, caught in the digital maelstrom, certainly is fine and dandy making bank by co-opting all the techie themes, gadgets and special effects, with a slate of movies over the next months that are like catnip to geeks of all kinds. Including BoomTown, for example, which plans to fork over a lot of dough to pay for all the techtastic entertainment that those old media moguls can dish out before they collapse.
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Online Video: How Did BoomTown Leave Out the Trekkies?

in News on December 19, 2008 at 1:37 am PT

After posting the hot new trailer for the fourth in the cyborg series, “Terminator Salvation,” yesterday, someone pointed out BoomTown was remiss in not including the one for the new “Star Trek” movie. No longer! It’s out in May and will look at the early lives of Captain James Tiberius Kirk and his sidekick and Vulcan-phenom, Spock. The video preview definitely boldly goes….

Online Video: The "Terminator Salvation" Trailer

in News on December 18, 2008 at 5:16 am PT

BoomTown is a freakish fan of cybernetic organisms–living tissue over a metal endoskeleton, duh!–and thus feels compelled to include this, the latest trailer from the upcoming fourth movie in the “Terminator” series, called “Terminator Salvation.” The franchise is everywhere these days, including a television series I am also obsessed with, called “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” But the big Skynet guns are trained on the movie blockbuster, which will be out next summer. Oh, they’ll be back alright.