Widely regarded as one of the greatest sequels ever made and possibly the greatest action movie ever made, director James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year – and to mark the occasion, StudioCanal, Fathom Entertainment, and Rialto Pictures and teaming up to give the film a global re-release!
Deadline reports that Terminator 2 will be returning to U.S. theatres on August 28th (just in time for “Judgment Day” on August 29th), with a number of global dates set through late August and early September. StudioCanal is handling global distribution. This 4K and 3D presentation uses StudioCanal’s 2017 restoration and 3D conversion of the film.
The Global Roll-Out
Here’s how the global roll-out of the Terminator 2 re-release will play out:
- Aug. 27: Germany, LatAM, Czech Republic
- Aug. 28: U.S., Italy and Poland
- Sept. 2: France
- Sept. 3: Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Sweden, Hungary
- Sept. 4: U.K.
What is Terminator 2: Judgment Day about?
Directed by Cameron from a screenplay he wrote with William Wisher, the film shows us what happens when the malevolent AI Skynet sends a shape-shifting liquid-metal T-1000 back in time to kill a 10-year-old John Connor. To counter this, the human resistance reprograms an older model T-800 to protect John, leading to an explosive battle to avert humanity’s nuclear destruction.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the T-800, Robert Patrick is the T-1000, and Edward Furlong plays John Connor. Linda Hamilton plays John’s mother Sarah. Also in the cast are Earl Boen, Joe Morton, Jenette Goldstein, Xander Berkeley, Cástulo Guerra, S. Epatha Merkerson, DeVaughn Nixon, Don and Dan Stanton, and Danny Cooksey.
Terminator 2 earned four Oscar wins: Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best VFX, and Best Make-up.
What has been said about the re-release?
Cameron provided the following statement: “T2 was made for theatres, and our lovingly-prepared 3D version, coming back to the big screen, is the absolute best way to see the film. I believe it’s safe to do spoilers after 35 years, so SPOILER ALERT: the good guys win against the AI superintelligence! And maybe that’s a message of hope we all could use this summer.“
Anna Marsh, CEO of StudioCanal, Chief Content Officer of CANAL+, added: “We are incredibly proud to mark the 35th anniversary of James Cameron’s masterpiece Terminator 2: Judgment Day in partnership with the passionate teams at Fathom Entertainment and Rialto Pictures in the US. This collaboration has been thrilling, and we cannot wait for audiences to mark Judgment Day in theatres all over the world this August. The continued restoration and discovery of classic and revolutionary cinema is the cornerstone of our strategy and it’s particularly gratifying to see the scale of this celebratory re-release come to fruition.“
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