1. Check out a ton of new images from the movie over at Film Gecko.

2. Enter to win a cool Terminator prize pack from MovieTickets.com.

3. Watch the 4 minute extended trailer. Then watch it again.

4. Download the Terminator Salvation game app for your iPhone.

5. Visit the official Terminator Salvation website for more great photos, games, downloads and other goodies.

Have you got a favorite Terminator Salvation website or article? Leave the link in the comments section. The survival of the whole human race may depend on.

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With all the Star Trek hype in the air, it’s easy to forget that a second huge scifi franchise movie will be coming out in a few weeks. It’s Terminator Salvation and it bows on May 21. In the meantime, Apple.com has just put up a four minute trailer to remind you that there’s much more to come.

CHRISTIAN BALE stars as John Connor in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action/sci-fi feature “Terminator Salvation,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Richard Foreman

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The only thing scarier than Freddy Krueger is a future without pizza!

Pizza Hut has teamed up with Terminator Salvation for a cool contest that could land you at the premiere. Other prizes include a life-sized Terminator T-600 model, Terminator Xbox® consoles and games Terminator collectibles.

Click here to enter and watch video clips from the movie.

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Since the entire franchise is built around a time travel loop, it’s hard to say if this is a prequel, sequel or parallel pic! What I can tell you is that it’s huge. The scope of this film is unlike any that have gone before, mostly due to the fact that it’s set in post-apocalyptic 2018. John Connor (Christian Bale) is all grown up now and he’s leading the human resistance against Skynet.

I’m going out on a limb here now and saying, I’m not sure I’m going to like this one. From a production standpoint it’s obviously superior, but I’m concerned that the attention to the special effects (the Terminators, the war, the whole new world) will take away from the humanity that was such a big part of the original movies. To me, the whole reason Terminator works is because no matter how sophisticated you make a machine, it’s still a machine. That gap between the metal and the skin (as they say on Sarah Connor) really delivered both emotionally and comically in the originals and I’m worried that we won’t get that from this movie.

Take a look at the new trailer and tell me what you think.

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Right now it’s slated to hit stores May 22 to coincide with the movie’s release. If this sounds like something you might be into, it’s Gamepro’s March 2009 cover story.

The game is actually a prequel to the movie but the popular gaming mag promises tidbits about the movie and the game. I’ve got my fingers crossed for this one. You know most licensed movie games are not so good. Seriously, make this game good or Christian Bale will get angry. And you really, really would not like Christian when he’s angry.

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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Helena Bonham Carter is in talks to play the lead villain in Terminator Salvation. The actress is no stranger to either villainous roles or sci-fi. She played Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and simian scientist Ari in Tim Burton’s reimagining of Planet of the Apes.

She would battle Christian Bale who will play the adult John Connor and Bryce Dallas Howard who will play his wife Kate. Director McG (Charlie Angels: Full Throttle, We Are Marshall) is bringing this fourth Terminator film to cineplexes in May 2009.

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                                                Terminator Salvation:The Future Begins

McG (I have a hard time even typing that name with a straight face) said Connor will be “pushed to the brink” in this one. Salvation is set in 2018, after Skynet and its machines have taken over. So I guess that means Sarah Connor, Cameron and John aren’t able to prevent it on their TV show.

Christian Bale is the adult John Connor and combining this with his Batman role has ensured that even if he never makes another movie, he can work the convention circuit for eternity. Salvation is supposed to be the first movie in a new Terminator trilogy and is slated for a May 22, 2009 release.

It’s rumored that one of the reasons Fox brought the Sarah Connor Chronicles back is that the network expects the show will pay for itself with Terminator movie commercials.

Image courtesy of Newscom.

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