TERMINATION Salvation: The Future Begins, starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington, began principal photography on May 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

The Halcyon Company presentation of a Moritz Borman Production of a McG Film, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins is directed by McG from a script by Michael Ferris and John Brancato. The film is being produced by Moritz Borman, Derek Anderson, Victor Kubicek and Jeffrey Silver, and executive produced by Peter D. Graves, Bahman Naraghi, Mario F. Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna, Joel B. Michaels, Dan Lin and Jeanne Allgood.

Warner Bros. Pictures is handling all US and Canadian distribution rights for the film, with Sony Pictures Entertainment handling distribution rights in most international territories, including the Philippines.

In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in postapocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

The film also stars Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese, Charlotte Gainsbourg as Kate Connor, Moon Bloodgood as Blair Williams, Common as Barnes and Jadagrace as Star.

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins marks the latest installment of the multibillion-dollar Terminator franchise and will be the first film in a new Terminator trilogy.  The film is scheduled for a North American theatrical release May 22, 2009.  The Halcyon Company acquired all Terminator franchise rights in May 2007.

More information is available at www.terminatorsalvation.com.

In Memory of Genius

YVES SAINT LAURENT will be called the greatest couturier of the second half of the 20th century and few will quibble with the assertion.

Glam on the Run

WHILE there is a myriad of motives to rant and rave about the frivolity of some collections, I choose not to delve on the negative. I try to find beauty where I can. Since I’m deeply steeped in the Audrey Hepburn/Grace Kelly/Elizabeth Taylor school of fashion, I found the glamorous gowns to be the most unforgettable creations presented at the recently concluded Philippine Fashion Week (actually a 10-day affair).

Fashion Goes Green

ONE man’s trash is a creative spirit’s treasure. That much was obvious on Saturday at SM Megamall and SM Supercenter Pasig, which hosted another Recycling Market Day that showcased discarded tetra packs creatively and fashionably recycled.

Gab Fab: Comings and goings

Prior to his return to the Philippines in April after cutting short a trip to the US to undergo medical treatment, the actor and his wife, Lorna Tolentino, had made several trips abroad in the hope of finding the best treatment available for the cancer, which, according to the web site of the National Cancer Institute, “forms near the ampulla of Vater [an enlargement of the ducts from the liver and pancreas where they join and enter the small intestine].”

It’s time to give the fallacy of the slacker hero a good kick in the pants

IF THE world of computer feature animation were, say, a couple of characters in a sitcom, Pixar would be the smart, sensitive, well-mannered overachiever and DreamWorks would be the loud, bumbling, insecure, media-addled doofus.

4th ‘Terminator’ film begins production, stars Christian Bale

TERMINATION Salvation: The Future Begins, starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington, began principal photography on May 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.