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· Any plans for Memorial Day weekend 2009? Great! That means you can catch the opening of Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, McG's utterly essential contribution to the futuristic-robot-killing-machine franchise that keeps on giving. [Variety]
· The WWE entered into a deal with Fox, giving the studio "a first-look deal" for any project starring one of their wrestlers, and first dibs on John Cena to voice an irascible musk ox in Ice Age: Boot Camp. [Variety]
· A three-month Chinese government ban on Hollywood product has ended, with a March release set for National Treasure: Book of Secrets and 10,000 B.C., after government censors screened both films to ensure they contained "no fingerprints of that lie-spreading Spielberg-devil." [Variety]

· Les Moonves told a group of Wall Street analysts that not only did the strike fail affect the CBS Corp.'s bottom line, it also allowed them to reexamine the whole development process, revealing pilots as "vastly overrated" tools that fail to provide necessary hits. Instead, the network is now looking at a completely revamped system, in which one character archetype, an unusual profession, and a genre are plucked out of three top hats. Dina Powers: Animal Control Investigator, a thrilling series from the creators of CSI that follows the exploits of a sassy single mom who's never encountered a rabid-possum mauling she couldn't get to the bottom of, is scheduled to premiere next fall. [THR]
· Crash: The TV Seriez, coming to a Starz channel near you, has chosen a showrunner in Glen Mazzara, who pledges to extend the car-crash-as-means-of-human-connection metaphor to such other significance-laden roadside mishaps as bicycle wheelies gone wrong, skateboarding casualties, and pedestrians accidentally brushing up against one another on crowded crosswalks. [THR]