I think I was 29 at the time, and it was my first directing gig,” said Cameron. “Terminator was my first film, and it's near and dear for that reason.” The movie has since launched a franchise consisting of multiple films and television series.

After hinting that he was working on a new Terminator project in a recent interview, James Cameron has now confirmed that the rage against the machines will continue on the big

James Cameron will take a break from Avatar to create a film based on Charles Pellegrino’s books Ghosts of Hiroshima and Last Train From Hiroshima…eventually.

The filmmaker stands by his dialogue, though: "Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we’ll talk about dialogue effectiveness."

E ver since The Terminator hit the big screen 40 years ago, Hollywood has taken the time-twisting cyborg saga and run with it. First, James Cameron sequelised his own original wit