James Cameron, DMG Partner for ‘Terminator 2’ 3D Re-Release Targeting China

“I’m very excited about working with DMG and StudioCanal to bring T2 into cinemas in 3D for the first time”.

“Next year marks the 25th anniversary of Terminator 2 and that seemed like the ideal time to bring it back but this time in an all-new 3D version”, said Cameron. Indeed, the film that was one of the most important watershed blockbusters of the 1990’s and generally considered the best entry in the Terminator franchise is coming back to theaters after 25 years with a Cyberdyne-Systems-like upgrade to 3D! Cameron has signed on to personally oversee the 3D conversion and remastering, though it’ll be interesting to see how they pull this off. Converting a film to 3D in post-production is one thing. No, not in a sequel to Terminator Genisys-that would be silly. The Paramount Footage/Skydance manufacturing earned about $90 million stateside however greater than $112 million in China; in complete the movie grossed about $440 million worldwide.

The Terminator franchise has a huge following in China, and as China is now the world’s second-largest film market, it makes sense, also, Terminator 2 has apparently never been given a theatrical release over there. Terminator 2 is expected to follow in the footsteps of Titanic 3D, which made a whopping $343 million worldwide in 2012, on top of the $2.1 billion it made during its initial run 15 years earlier.

“Terminator 2” was a much bigger hit, commercially and critically.

Dan Mintz, CEO DMG Entertainment, discusses the T2 3D conversion and re-release with Wu Bing, Chairwoman Yinji Entertainment and Media Co., and James Cameron at the Academy-award winning director’s home.