HOLLYWOOD, California (Reuters) -- Studios eager for a big summer 2003
picture face some tense times this week, Variety reports.
Nearly all of the majors are scrambling for U.S. distribution and video
rights to "Terminator 3," which is expected to start shooting in April.
Final contract details for Arnold Schwarzenegger to star and Jonathan
Mostow to direct were being hammered out over the weekend.
Since the first two "Terminator" pictures had a combined worldwide gross
surpassing $560 million, there's understandably avid studio interest.
But industry sources maintain "Terminator 3" will have a production budget
well above $170 million, making it easily the most expensive movie ever
greenlit. (The record is held by this year's "Pearl Harbor," which
reportedly was greenlit with a $140 budget.)
Some familiar with the talks say obtaining the lucrative home video rights
to the original "Terminator" and its sequel, "T2," will almost certainly
be part of any negotiations for "T3," as a boxed set of the trio surely
would fly off retailer shelves and help defray costs.
Anglo-American producer Intermedia Films is handling overseas distribution
of the giant picture, which will be made in concert with its original
producers, Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar of C-2 Pictures.
All this courting has been conducted in secret: No copies of the "T3"
script, by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, were circulated. Studio execs
wanting a read had to do so by visiting Intermedia's own suites, or by
perusing it in their own offices with someone from Intermedia loitering
outside.
Hundreds of Web sites have carried crumbs of "T3's" supposed plot -- some
even allege to have excerpts from the script -- so producers'
hypersensitivity about security is understandable.
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있는지 점점 더 멀어져 간다 머물러 있는 청춘인 줄 알았는데 비어가는 내 가슴 속엔
더 아무 것도 찾을 수 없네 계절은 다시 돌아 오지만 떠나간 내 사랑은 어디에
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머물러 있는 사랑인 줄 알았는데 또 하루 멀어져 간다 매일 이별하며 살고 있구나