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‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Officially the First ‘Terminator’ Film Since ‘Rise of the Machines’ to Earn “R” Rating
The first two Terminator films, of course directed by James Cameron, kicked off the franchise with an “R” rating, and 2003’s Rise of the Machines continued that adult-oriented approach. But the franchise returned with a PG-13 rating with the release of Terminator Salvation in 2009, and 2015’s Terminator Genisys was also released with that watered down PG-13 rating.
As promised, Deadpool director Tim Miller‘s Terminator: Dark Fate will be the first film in the franchise since 2003 to be released with an “R” rating, which it was granted this week!
Dark Fate has officially been rated “R” for “violence throughout, language and brief nudity.”
“I am so delighted,” Arnold Schwarzenegger recently said when talking about Dark Fate‘s rated “R” approach. “I was sick and tired with the last time, when the studio decided to make it a PG-13 rating just because they thought there more dollars in there. That’s not Terminator.”
He continued, “I was so angry about them trying to cut out the blood and gore. In this movie, we have the gore…we have the blood – I’m not even going to talk about what I do in this movie – Gabriel literally cuts people to shreds. There’s blood, there’s gore, there’s guts, you can see the heart being ripped out.”
In Dark Fate, “Sarah Connor and a hybrid cyborg human must protect a young girl from a newly modified liquid Terminator from the future.”
Cast includes Natalia Reyes as Dani, Gabriel Luna as the Rev-9, Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and Mackenzie Davis as Grace.
Paramount is releasing Tim Miller‘s sequel to T2 on November 1st, 2019.
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‘Abigail’ on Track for a Better Opening Weekend Than Universal’s Previous Two Vampire Attempts
In the wake of Leigh Whannell’s Invisible Man back in 2020, Universal has been struggling to achieve further box office success with their Universal Monsters brand. Even in the early days of the pandemic, Invisible Man scared up $144 million at the worldwide box office, while last year’s Universal Monsters: Dracula movies The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Renfield didn’t even approach that number when you COMBINE their individual box office hauls.
The horror-comedy Renfield came along first in April 2023, ending its run with just $26 million. The period piece Last Voyage of the Demeter ended its own run with a mere $21 million.
But Universal is trying again with their ballerina vampire movie Abigail this weekend, the latest bloodbath directed by the filmmakers known as Radio Silence (Ready or Not, Scream).
Unlike Demeter and Renfield, the early reviews for Abigail are incredibly strong, with our own Meagan Navarro calling the film “savagely inventive in terms of its vampiric gore,” ultimately “offering a thrill ride with sharp, pointy teeth.” Read her full review here.
That early buzz – coupled with some excellent trailers – should drive Abigail to moderate box office success, the film already scaring up $1 million in Thursday previews last night. Variety notes that Abigail is currently on track to enjoy a $12 million – $15 million opening weekend, which would smash Renfield ($8 million) and Demeter’s ($6 million) opening weekends.
Working to Abigail‘s advantage is the film’s reported $28 million production budget, making it a more affordable box office bet for Universal than the two aforementioned movies.
Stay tuned for more box office reporting in the coming days.
In Abigail, “After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.”
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