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Arnold! Get Jim Cameron ASAP!!!

RESULTS #37: What went wrong with Arnold's movie career lately (T6D, EOD, B&R, JATW)?

`MPAA ratings: more PG-13, less R rated films`	`25%`
`directors (no James Cameron)`	`44%`
`Arnold's age`	`9%`
`Arnold's popularity lately`	`9%`
`I don't know or something else`	`13%`


	March 30 , 1992 Arnold attended the 63th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards celebration with his wife Maria. His Terminator 2 won seven Oscars in all of the Academy's technical categories for: Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Makeup, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects (the T-1000 effect cost $5.5 million and took eight months of work for 3.5 minutes of screen time). Gene Warren Jr. was the SFX winner for his T2 work while The Silence of the Lambs was the big winner that night!


	`Congratulations to MGM for their record breaking Terminator disc. The March 19 Special Edition DVD (REGION 2) scored the highest 'week 1' DVD sales of a back catalogue title to date. The previous holder was Columbia Tristar's Men In Black with massive sales of 41,044 in the first week. The Terminator notched up stellar sales of 51,381 taking it to the No.1 spot on CIN’s DVD sales chart.`


	`Friday, March 29, 1991 Arnold's 1982 promotional video named Shape up with Arnold Schwarzenegger was released on VHS tape at UNITED AMERICAN VIDEO.`


	`Tuesday, March 28, 2000 Filmnet reported that Germany's VCL Film+Medien company was set to take a 25% stake in next two "Terminator" movies being planned by Producers Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna. Japan's Toho Towa company has already made a similar arrangement, which includes a percentage of the profits and the option in their respective home countries. Kassar hoped to select a Director within the next 45 days and planned to shot the sequels back-to-back. A lot changed in a year, I guess.` `Will we ever see his face again?`


	`Monday, March 27, 1995 Arnold was a presenter at the 67th Academy Awards (Oscar) at the Shrine Auditorium where he gave Clint Eastwood a life-time achievement award (the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award). And Arnold's own True Lies was nominated for Best Visual Effects while Junior music team (Carole Bayer Sager, Patty Smyth, James Newton Howard, James Ingram For the song "Look What Love Has Done") was nominated for Best Music, Song!`

Sunday, March 26, 1995 Arnold practised an Academy Award ceremony with Clint Eastwood in Los Angeles.

Sunday, March 26, 1995 Arnold attended 72nd Academy Awards -- as a presenter for best Visual Effects, giving his usually humorous speech: "Good evening, I'm here today to present the Award for outstanding visual effects. This is really exciting for me because while you may not know how much inspiration, imagination, and plain hard work goes into creating this magic, I know - because I've been a visual effect." The Matrix won the award.

Monday, March 25, 1991 Arnold attended the 62th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards celebration with his wife Maria. His Total Recall won a special Oscar for Best Visual Effects (110 to 120 effects were mede by Dream Quest Images under the direction of Uric Brevig). Arnold (outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion) attends the 62th Academy Awards celebration with his wife Maria. His Total Recall (1990) won a special Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

Tuesday, March 25, 1997 Arnold hosted the grand opening of San Diego's Planet Hollywood with Sly, Demi Moore and Bruce Willis.

Saturday, March 25, 2000 Arnold didn't won Razzie award for his Razzie-nominated performance in End of Days.


	`In case you forgot, The 6th Day DVD was released yesterday.`