McFarlane Press Release via PRNewswire--McFarlane Toys has signed a licensing agreement with Intermedia Film Distribution Ltd., to release action figures based on this summer's blockbuster film "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."
McFarlane Toys will be releasing collectible action figures in conjunction with the domestic movie release on July 2, 2003 by Warner Bros. Pictures, an AOL Time Warner Company. These figures include:
T-850 with coffin -- This figure is the new Arnold Schwarzenegger character in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," re-creating a scene from the film.
T-850 with weapons -- This version of the Arnold Schwarzenegger character features several weapons, including rifle and grenade launcher.
T-X Terminatrix -- The new enemy in the movie, played by actress Kristanna Loken.
T-X Terminatrix Endoskeleton -- Endoskeleton version of the new enemy
Terminator 3 12-inch figure with sound -- T-850 figure in 12-inch scale with various weapons and a sound clip from the film.
Terminator 3 Boxed Set: T-850/T-X -- Unbelievably detailed deluxe boxed edition features a battle-damaged T-850 and a T-X Endoskeleton figure re-creating a battle scene from the movie.
McFarlane Toys has signed a licensing agreement with Intermedia Film
Distribution Ltd., to release action figures based on this summer's blockbuster
film "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines." McFarlane Toys will be releasing
collectible action figures in conjunction with the domestic movie release on
July 2, 2003 by Warner Bros. Pictures, an AOL Time Warner Company. These figures
include:
- T-850 with coffin -- This figure is the new Arnold Schwarzenegger
character in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," re-creating a scene from
the film.
- T-850 with weapons -- This version of the Arnold Schwarzenegger character
features several weapons, including rifle and grenade launcher.
- T-X Terminatrix -- The new enemy in the movie, played by actress Kristanna
Loken.
- T-X Terminatrix Endoskeleton -- Endoskeleton version of the new enemy
- Terminator 3 12-inch figure with sound -- T-850 figure in 12-inch scale
with various weapons and a sound clip from the film.
- Terminator 3 Boxed Set: T-850/T-X -- Unbelievably detailed deluxe boxed
edition features a battle-damaged T-850 and a T-X Endoskeleton figure
re-creating a battle scene from the movie.
The release of "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" marks the return of one
of the most popular blockbuster brands in entertainment history. To date,
"Terminator" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" have a combined international box
office gross of $550 million. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" DVD/video sales are
also past the $200 million mark.
Arnold Schwarzenegger reprises his signature role as the Terminator, heading
a cast that includes Nick Stahl ("In the Bedroom," "The Thin Red Line"),
Kristanna Loken ("Panic") and Claire Danes ("William Shakespeare's Romeo +
Juliet," "The Hours"). Renowned character creator and original Terminator
designer Stan Winston returns to supervise the film's animatronic and make-up
effects, and ILM will once again produce the visual effects.
Grammy- and Emmy-winning Producer/Director Todd McFarlane, best known as the
creator of "Spawn" and the founder of spawn.com, is the creative force behind
McFarlane Toys. The international award winning company is one of America's top
action figure manufacturers with several successful movie- licensing tie-ins,
including Warner Brother's "The Matrix" trilogy, "Shrek"; "X-Files"; "Tim
Burton's Sleepy Hollow"; the first two "Austin Powers" films; the Beatle's
"Yellow Submarine"; "Akira" and the company's seminal Movie Maniacs series
featuring horror icons from such films as "Terminator" and "Terminator 2,"
"Alien," "Predator," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre;" "Friday the 13th;" "The Thing;"
"Army of Darkness;" "The Fly;" "Blair Witch;" "Scream;" "A Nightmare on Elm
Street;" "Halloween" and more. The company also makes official league-licensed
figures for baseball, football, basketball and hockey under its Sports Picks(TM)
line, as well as rock music icons, electronic gaming and McFarlane's signature
creation, "Spawn." Check out
www.spawn.com for more
information.
"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" is an Intermedia/IMF Production in
association with Mostow/Lieberman Productions and C2 Pictures. C2's Mario Kassar,
Andy Vajna and Joel B. Michaels are producing with Hal Lieberman and Colin
Wilson. Intermedia's chairman Moritz Borman as well as Nigel Sinclair and Guy
East will executive produce along with Gale Anne Hurd.
ABOUT INTERMEDIA: Intermedia is a diversified entertainment company with
offices in Los Angeles and Munich, which develops, finances and distributes
motion pictures in collaboration with leading producing partners. Its parent
company, IM Internationalmedia AG, is a German public company. Intermedia films
include "Iris," "Nurse Betty," "Sliding Doors," "Enigma," "K-19: The Widowmaker,"
"The Quiet American," "Adaptation," as well as "The Life of David Gale," "Basic"
and "Mindhunters."
ABOUT C2 PICTURES: C2 Pictures is the Santa Monica-based filmed entertainment
company founded and headed by former Carolco Pictures principals Kassar and
Vajna. Their producing credits, which have spanned over two decades and yielded
well over three billion dollars in worldwide box office, include the "Rambo"
series, "Total Recall," "Basic Instinct," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "Stargate,"
"Diehard with a Vengeance," "Cliffhanger," "Evita" and "I Spy."
Source: McFarlane Toys
|
