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With both Dwayne "Please Stop Calling Me The Rock" Johnson and Arnold Schwarzenegger supposedly, maybe, probably in the mix for the next installment of the "Terminator" franchise, this one under the control of art house messiah Megan Ellison ("The Master," "Spring Breakers"), it was only a matter of time before more official-sounding details for the proposed film emerged like a robot hand from a lake of lava. And now it has.

Paramount has announced that  "Terminator 5" (they lost the "the," by the way) will be a complete reboot and the first part of a stand-alone trilogy. Let that sink in for a second. Surprised at all? Yeah, us neither.

The new trilogy lead-in will debut on June 26, 2015, effectively making that summer — which already boasts "Avengers 2" and "Star Wars: Episode VII" — into some kind of universe-altering nerd black hole from which there is no escape.

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