Entertainment Weekly did a great spotlight on Terminator 2: Judgment Day in their July 1991 issue. It's an outstanding T2 centered magazine for many reasons. First of all, the cover itself is a very unique take from all the other magazines, it uses a very rare photo not used in other American publications, from a photo session that was very prominent in Europe but not in US at all. And even in Europe that photo was still extremely rare. See, in Europe, vast majority of T2 promotional photos were from this fiery session, while in US and other parts of the world, the dark, steel blue session was used to promote the movie instead.
The cover underlines T2's record breaking budget, calling the film "Hollywood's priciest blockbuster ever", but it doesn't really focus on its budget and gossip all that much. Instead, it's all about the report from the set and interviews with James Cameron, Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The first T2 article in this issue explains a lot about the movie, and inserts interviews with Jim and Arnold. The writer was on the Cyberdyne set in March, when the SWAT team entered the building, our heroes were rigging the explosive barrels and the Terminator uttered one of his famous lines from the film - Trust Me. This magazine is the first that I'm aware of that mentions Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator series designation, T-800, multiple times throughout the article, and it describes T-1000's abilities quite well.
On the side note on one of the pages, Entertainment Weekly actually goes for a nearly completely correct breakdown of the budget, and also explains that the movie already made back almost all of it from rights (not including merchandise licensing) - Carolco got $65 million for theatrical rights, $10 million for video rights, and $7 million for TV rights!
The article talks about Linda's transformation and the movie's thematic elements, which Linda described best - "the irony of this film is that Arnold is a better mother than I am, and I'm a better Terminator than he is". It talks about the movie's massive scale, the transformation of Arnold's career, and variety of T2 related topics with Cameron. An interesting thing is how Cameron explains how Arnold's accent worked for the character: "It had a strange synthesized quality, like they hadn't gotten the voice thing quite worked out"
Also in the issue is a separate 2 page issue on Linda Hamilton, and an exclusive interview with her. She obviously talks about the incredible regimen she went through. She started training 13 weeks before the film, and then for the 6 months during the shooting, plus weapons training, and all that on 4 hours of sleep every night.
There's also an extensive review, 3 page if you'd count a large photo of the Terminator and John in the phone booth (not pictured here). The magazine gives the movie B+, and praises nearly everything. The reviewer loves the first half of the film, but has some problems with the latter, saying that, while great and mind blowing, it's narratively thinner and basically a countdown to a showdown.
