In a late night bidding war brouhaha, the film rights to the “Terminator” franchise was sold to Pacificor for 29.5 million, out bidding both Sony and Lionsgate. The previous owner, Halcyon Holding Corp will get 5 million for every new “Terminator” film and they will get to continue to milk the revenues from Terminator 3 and 4. Terminator 4 (Salvation) made over 350 million worldwide.

Does this mean we will soon see a new Terminator movie? If Lionsgate had won the bidding, word was that it was going to be a total reboot, back to simple man on Terminator action like the first two movies. Pacificor is a hedge fund company and probably not in the movie making biz themselves but I guess everyone starts at the first one. Despite the lower intestinal discomfort that Salvation gave me, I’d still spend my allowance to see another Terminator. Salvation had no balance. Too many Terminators, too grim. We need more humour and one or two at most scary tin plated human hunting death dealers. More news as we get it. Thanks Nikke over there at Deadline Hollywood.