Hollywood accounting gives me a headache. I have a difficult enough time balancing my checkbook, so I can't even imagine how complicated it must be to produce a major motion picture. Apparently, it's even too complicated for the producers of
Terminator Salvation, because they just declared bankruptcy, despite the fact that the May movie has earned more than $370 million at the box office.
Producers
Derek Anderson and
Victor Kubicek, who jointly own the rights to
Terminator, claim
their investors pushed them into making bad business decisions and illegally placed a lien on their companies. The list of creditors for their three companies is long and includes
Terminator Salvation director
McG and star
Christian Bale. The original Terminator, Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger is also named in the suit.
It is unclear what this means for the future of the
Terminator franchise.