Pizza Hut(R), Warner Bros. Pictures Debut Terminator Salvation Exclusive Footage...

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Mon May 11, 2009 8:00am EDT

Pizza Hut(R), Warner Bros. Pictures Debut Terminator Salvation Exclusive
Footage on PizzaHut.com

Eager Terminator fans can head to pizzahut.com to feed their curiosity 

DALLAS, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Can't wait until Thursday, May 21 to see
Terminator Salvation come to your hometown theater?  Pizza Hut predicted this
future and is now offering humans and machines exclusive access to one of the
most anticipated films of the year... right from your home computer.  Today,
Pizza Hut and Warner Bros. Pictures debuted five minutes of exclusive
Terminator Salvation footage that you can only see on pizzahut.com, allowing
anxious Terminator fans to feed their curiosity (and their stomachs) all in
one stop.  

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The Terminator Salvation footage from the film is available for fans to watch
from May 11 - 30 [link: http://www.pizzahut.com/terminatorsalvation] and
features a sneak peak from the movie before it hits theaters on Thursday, May
21.  Alongside the exclusive footage, visitors will have the opportunity to
instantly win a number of great prizes, including a life size Terminator T-600
model, custom Terminator Salvation Xbox consoles, Terminator: Salvation video
games, Terminator Salvation Action Figures from Playmates Toys(R), and other
licensed products.  Fans can also watch movie trailers, download wallpapers,
and of course, order all their favorites from Pizza Hut. 

In addition to the online activities, Pizza Hut is showing its support of the
human resistance by giving anyone named Sarah or John Connor a free pizza. On
Thursday, May 21, all Sarah or John Connors with a government-issued I.D. can
head to a participating Pizza Hut restaurant to pick up the Salvation special
- a free medium one-topping pizza.

Pizzahut.com is the place to get ready for the return of Terminator.  This
initiative is part of a promotion between Pizza Hut and Warner Bros. Pictures.
 Earlier this month, Pizza Hut launched an online promotion with Warner Bros.
Pictures to support the Thursday, May 21 release of Terminator Salvation where
the company hosted a sweepstakes, with one lucky winner and a friend to attend
the World Premiere in Hollywood.  The first look at five action-packed minutes
from the movie is Pizza Hut's next step in delivering the Terminator to the
doorsteps of fans nationwide.  At pizzahut.com, fans can enjoy insider access
to a summer blockbuster alongside their favorite Pizza Hut menu items.    

"In conjunction with Warner Bros., we're teaming up with one the most popular
action-movie characters ever created," said Bob Kraut, marketing
communications VP for Pizza Hut. "Pizza Hut's iconic red Hut may not be as
intimidating as the Terminator's red eye, but pizza and movies are time-tested
favorites and we're excited to offer this unique exclusive."
 
Pizza Hut is proud to support the release of Terminator Salvation and bring
together thrilling action and great taste under one roof, while advancing
Pizza Hut's leadership position in the digital space. The sweepstakes and
Terminator Salvation online components are the latest excitement at
pizzahut.com, where Pizza Hut continues to lead the category in online
innovation. 

To view the exclusive footage, or to place your order, log on to
www.pizzahut.com.

About Pizza Hut:
As the world's largest pizza restaurant company with 6,200 restaurants in the
United States and more than 4,000 restaurants in 100 other countries, Pizza
Hut, Inc., is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM).  The company's
50-year legacy of leadership and innovation has made it the recognized leader
in the $37 billion pizza category. Those hungry for more information can go to
the official Pizza Hut Website at www.pizzahut.com
 
About Terminator Salvation:
Opening nationwide on Thursday, May 21, 2009, Terminator Salvation will be
distributed in North America by Warner Bros. Pictures. Sony Pictures
Entertainment is distributing the film in most international territories. 
Terminator Salvation is set in post-apocalyptic 2018, where John Connor is the
man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of
Terminators.  But the future that Connor was raised to believe in is altered
in part by the appearance of a stranger named Marcus Wright.  Connor must now
decide whether Marcus can be trusted.  But as Skynet adapts new strategies to
end the Resistance forever, Connor and Marcus must find common ground to take
a stand against the onslaught - to infiltrate Skynet and meet the enemy
head-on.

The fourth installment in the blockbuster "Terminator" film franchise,
"Terminator Salvation" is a presentation of The Halcyon Company.  McG directed
the film from a screenplay by John Brancato & Michael Ferris.  "Terminator
Salvation" was produced by Moritz Borman, Jeffrey Silver, Victor Kubicek and
Derek Anderson.  Peter D. Graves, Dan Lin, Jeanne Allgood, Joel B. Michaels,
Mario F. Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna served as executive producers.  The film
stars Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Bryce
Dallas Howard, Common, Jane Alexander and Helena Bonham Carter. "Terminator
Salvation" is being distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Columbia Pictures is distributing the film in most international markets.  The
film is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and
language.



SOURCE  Pizza Hut

Dan Skinner, +1-312-396-9706, Dan.Skinner@zenogroup.com, for Pizza Hut
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