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Edge of Darkness Review

Back after six years between acting gigs, Mel Gibson stars in Martin Campbell’s Edge of Darkness, a sorrowful, gritty and intelligent revenge thriller. Not only is Mel back, he gives what may be (or is close to) his best performance as a grief riddled father searching for answers about his daughters brutal murder. Gibson is no stranger to revenge style films, but there is no coyness or zany humour here or off-the-wall kookiness showcased in films such as Lethal Weapon or Payback. 

The blurring line between TV and cinema

Since its creation, television has been battling with cinema to provide us with our information and entertainment. When television was available on a larger scale, cinema audiences started to decrease, unable to provide entertainment and news in people‘s homes. Yet cinema always had the edge with larger budgets and more prestige for people in the entertainment business. Many movie actors and directors started their careers in television, such as Ridley Scott and Clint Eastwood.

Give us a prequel you damn dirty Apes!

Twentieth Century Fox isn’t monkeying around. June 24, 2011 will see a reboot/prequel to the long-running “Planet of the Apes” franchise to be directed by Rupert Wyatt.

Tentatively titled “Rise of the Apes”, the film will be set in modern-day San Francisco where genetic experiments give rise to super-intelligent apes leading to a war against humans.

The Men in Black are coming back in 2012

Just when you thought the late ’90s and early ’00s were dead or locked away forever, Sony/Columbia makes an announcement that those rumors you heard aboutMen in Black III in 3-D were in fact true. The studio sent out a press release Friday that the third alien-blasting black-tie affair is underway for a Memorial Day 2012 release with original director Barry Sonnenfeld and stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones (Jones is in “advanced negotiations”) returning.

Toby Jones joins “Captain America” cast

Critically acclaimed actor Toby Jones takes on a villainous comic book role in Captain America: The First Avenger. Jones is perhaps best known for his role as Truman Capote in the film Infamous and his voice work in various Harry Potter films as Dobby the House Elf.

Box Office Wizard (5.7.10)

One of the goals we have at Player Affinity is to create an open dialog with our readers. I don’t know how many of you there are yet, probably not much, but it’s never too early to start asking for your thoughts and opinions.

One way we thought to do this was through a weekly competition. We want you to get out your box office crystal balls and tells us which five movies will place in the top five of each weekend’s U.S. domestic box office chart. Simple enough, right? I will make my own predictions here and explain them to you each week to give you some sort of reference point. It’s then your job to enter a comment with your top five. 

“Die Hard 5” finds a writer

Yippee kai yay? According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Business blog, screenwriter Skip Woods will be penning a screenplay for the fifth installment of the classic Die Hard series. Alex Young, a former Fox executive, is set to produce. 

There doesn’t seem to be a story for the project as of yet, but taking Woods on as a writer is certainly interesting considering the critical acclaim of the series as a whole. Woods’ writing filmography includes G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Hitman, Swordfish, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.