Now You Can Own Your Own Terminator!
If you’ve ever wanted to own your own cybernetic organism, killing machine, or a piece of Skynet, then this could be right up your alley!
The film rights to the Terminator franchise are going up for auction, following the financial collapse of the series’ most recent custodian’s – Halcyon earlier this year.
Several big Hollywood studios are expressing an interest in the sale, in which the winning bidder will be given all rights to future Terminator productions – without the rights to any of the existing series being included in the deal!
According to the Financial Times, Sony Picturesare currently the leading contender for the sale, with the remaining larger studios all also expressing an interest and many of the smaller houses (including Media Rights Capital and “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” studio Summit Entertainment) tracking the auction too.
Halcyon hit hard times back in Augustwhen investors began losing confidence in the company, FTI Capital Advisors, the administrators brought in to wrap up Halcyon’s affairs will be conducting the sale.
The Terminator franchise is one of the few big properties to not be tied down by a major studio, the rights to the film have changed hands many times over the years, most recently when Halcyon picked up the series for $25million two years ago from Mario Kassar, Halcyon released Terminator Salvation earlier this year.
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