Source: The Financial Times, ComingSoon

As per recent rumors, film producers Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek are putting the rights to the Terminator franchise up for sale this month. Anderson and Kubicek own the film production company Halcyon, which produced 2009's Terminator Salvation.

Changing hands is nothing new to the Terminator series. The Terminator was released by Orion Pictures, Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Carolco Pictures, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines by Warner Bros. and Terminator Salvation by Halcyon, with Warner Bros. distributing. Interestingly, both Orion and Carolco eventually went bankrupt, and Halcyon filed their own bankruptcy suit on August 19. All of the studios have expressed interest (with Sony looking likely); the rights in question only apply to future Terminator films, and do not include the rights to the existing four.

Salvation was not the summer blockbuster that Halcyon was hoping for, grossing only $125.3 million in the US against a $200 million budget; however, it did much better overseas, where it picked up an additional $246 million.