These included 50% of the Terminator franchise rights, as the other half remained with The Terminator producer Gale Anne Hurd.

In 1997, Terminator 2: Judgment Day developer Carolco Pictures went bankrupt, and its assets were bound to a liquidation auction. James Cameron announced Terminator 3 many times during the 1990s, but without a finished script in place. It grossed over $433.4 million worldwide over its $187.3 million budget and was followed by a sequel, Terminator Salvation in 2009.Īn official poster of Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines. Pictures in the United States and by Columbia Pictures internationally. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines premiered in West Hollywood on June 30, 2003, and was released on Jby Warner Bros. The Resistance has also sent their own Terminator (Schwarzenegger) back to protect the T-X's targets. John's life is placed in danger when the T-X finds him while pursuing Kate. After Skynet fails to kill Sarah Connor before her son John Connor (Stahl) was born, and also failed to kill John as a child, Skynet now sends another Terminator back in time known as the T-X (Loken) in an attempt to wipe out as many human resistance officers as possible, including John's future wife Kate Brewster (Danes), but not John himself, as his whereabouts are unknown to Skynet. It is the third installment in the Terminator film series, following 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and does not involve James Cameron, who directed and wrote the first two films. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (also known as Terminator 3 or T3) is a 2003 American science-fictionaction film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken.

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