8. Terminator (6 years)
Previous Release: Terminator Salvation released May 2009.
The Sequel: Terminator, due for release June 2015, over 6 years since the last movie. It's become expected that we have to wait ages for a Terminator movie, after the gap between the first and second film was 7 years, and then a whopping 12 years until Rise of the Machines, and then 6 years for Salvation to appear. Salvation was the first Terminator film to flop with critics and it also posted the lowest profit ratio of the franchise to date by far, failing to even double its $200 million budget despite being the fourth entry in a revered franchise. While the fifth Terminator film is being positioned as the first entry in a new, separate trilogy, as much as the producers like to tell us this, the fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger is being brought back to play the T-800 makes it clear that this is going to be anything but standalone, mooching off that famous iconography, and why the Hell not? The problem is that the combination of Salvation's dodgy reception, the constant legal wranglings surrounding the project and Arnie's increasing age are all indicators that this film should just be better left alone, especially as it will have taken 6 years to re-group and piece things together again before the movie comes out.