ere's something we don't recall hearing of before. According to a report at Moviehole, the end of this summer's Terminator: Salvation movie has been changed from the originally scripted version, and the cause of this could have been an Internet leak.

It ties back into a leak that appeared on the website Ain't It Cool News, which appeared last June. To be fair, the ending that the site reported sounded really quite terrible, but what we didn't expect was that it would have such ramifications for the movie itself.

What's happened since, according to the Moviehole report, is that the entire third act of the film has been changed. It quotes a Warner Bros contact confirming that the film's ending had been changed "because of the internet leak. The ending doesn't resemble the previous one in any shape or form."

That, as it turns out, may not be a bad thing. But it's the first time we can ever recall where the ending of a major blockbuster movie has been completely altered as a result of something that was posted on the Internet. Apparently, Warner Bros was so incensed about the leak that it ordered the rewrites, and it may potentially come to thank whoever did spill the beans in the first place...

The film hits UK cinemas on 3 June 2009, but our friends in the US get it earlier, on 21 May.

The original AICN story is here.

And here’s the Moviehole report.