It’s been seven years since we’ve seen Mel Gibson on the big screen, but he’s back in Warner Bros.’ new political thriller Edge of Darkness, which also stars Ray Winstone. Gibson plays a Boston cop who stumbles across a government and corporate cover-up while searching for the truth about his daughter’s brutal murder. At first he believes he is the target of the crime until he begins to unravel the secrets his daughter was keeping. The film is based on a British TV drama which first aired in 1985 and to this day remains one of the most influential miniseries in British TV history.

Gibson and Winstone not only talked about their latest project, but other upcoming films as well like Mad Max: Fury Road, Gibson’s untitled Viking movie and Steven Soderbergh’s Cleo:

Q: Have you gotten the acting bug back and might you pop up in Mad Max 4?
Mel Gibson: I walked away from it after Signs because I just felt I was a bit stale. It wasn’t ringing my bells so I focused on directing and writing and producing and all that kind of stuff, and it was time to come back. Now, I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years I might have something to offer again and it coincided with a very good piece of material. It was a compelling story with good elements attached and I dug it, and it gave me the chance to work with Martin and Ray and Graham and Bill Monahan. If it wasn’t this, it would’ve been something else but this was the best thing that I saw.

Q: Have you talked to George Miller about Mad Max?
Gibson: Oh yeah, I’ve talked to George. We’ve had a good chin wag about it. We talk all the time anyway, George and I, so I’m abreast of that. I know he’s been trying to do this for years, the fourth installment. At one point I was involved and it felt a bit… so now it’s probably gone through a lot of changes. I can’t wait to see it because everything he does I think is magic, I think is a touch of genius, more than a touch of genius about George. Probably most of any good trick I’ve ever learned, I’ve learned off that guy and Peter Weir.

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Some redundant info, but I’m bored and needed something to do.

Mel Gibson’s Russian girlfriend may be pregnant, or so The National Enquirer (story via Showbiz Spy) is reporting. By the way, are we calling Oksana Grigorieva Mel Gibson’s girlfriend, or his “girlfriend”? I’m asking because I tend to think she’s his “girlfriend”. Something about the eyes… she has the look of a woman who loves money, and Mel has the look of a man with equal parts money and insanity. If Oksana’s pregnant, she’s going to call the little one “$500 million divorce settlement”.

This story isn’t only about the rumored baby – apparently Mel’s oldest sons, Edward and Christian, have hired an attorney to protect the trust funds their parents set up. Ah, it seems Edward and Christian have noticed the look in Oksana’s eyes as well. Perhaps they’re referring to their soon-to-be half-sibling as “over my trust fund’s dead body”.

Mel Gibson’s Russian girlfriend is pregnant with his love child, a new report claims.

According to the National Enquirer, the Braveheart star sat his children down and announced that Oksana Grigorieva, 39, is about three months gone.

Gibson’s two oldest boys — 26-year-old twins Edward and Christian — will hire an attorney to protect their trust funds, and insiders expect his estranged wife Robyn will seek more than half of Gibson’s billion-dollar fortune.

“In late April, Mel gathered his children at the family home in Malibu and broke the news that Oksana is pregnant, and he expects them to accept the baby as a new sibling,” an insider said.

“They are quite upset,” the source revealed. “Even though Mel assured them the pregnancy was unplanned, they’re furious with him and say they’re going to take steps to protect their inheritance, which they feel is in jeopardy.”

[From Showbiz Spy]

Gross. So Mel told his family about the bundle of joy about two weeks ago – and they’re saying Oksana’s “about three months gone”. Interesting. So she got pregnant (allegedly) the beginning of February, give or take a week. But Mel’s wife Robyn didn’t file for divorce until April 13th. So, Oksana was married Mel’s mistress when she got pregnant, according to this story. Well, she certainly works fast.

As far as the money stuff, I think it would really depend on how Mel and Robyn set up their children’s trusts. Is it one large trust that is simply for Mel’s heirs? If it is, another child might mean less inheritance. But, if the trusts are set up as I suspect, there are multiple trusts individually assigned to each of Mel and Robyn’s children, and Robyn will likely fight to retain the trusts as-is within the divorce proceedings. So, basically, any children that Mel has beyond the seven kids he has with Robyn will be getting their inheritance from Mel’s half of the divorce settlement. Haha, sucker.

Source: Celebitchy

Mel Gibson has twin sons who turn 26 this year, Edward and Christian, who both have stints in rehab. Ed was out of rehab late last year for an alcohol and cocaine addiction, and Christian got a DUI in 2006 and checked into rehab in late January of this year. Mel, who has also has a well publicized DUI under his belt, has recently befriended pop singer Britney Spears, 26. Britney has spent time at Mel’s estate in Costa Rica and has been seen out to dinner with him and his family.

While some speculated that Mel wanted to help Britney with her personal problems, and others wondered if he was trying to convert her to his unique brand of Catholicism, Mel may have had another motivation for spending time with Britney. The National Enquirer reports that Mel tried to set Britney up with the less messed-up twin her age, Edward, but that Britney wasn’t having that. Mel’s son Edward is working his recovery program and The Enquirer says Mel believed he would be a good influence on her.

[Mel Gibson] believed his son Edward – who was in rehab last year for cocaine and alcohol addition – had turned his life around and could help Britney do the same, an insider told The Enquirer.

“Mel felt Ed would be a great influence on Brit, and if the relationship turned to romance, all the better,” said the insider.

So Gibson arranged a meeting between the pair at Britney’s home in the Hollywood Hills last March, said the source.

“He sincerely believed that his son could help Britney stay on the straight and narrow and that they might hit it off as a couple as well,” the insider explained.

But Britney, 26, gave the cold shoulder to Mel and Edward …

“She hid from them most of the night,” revealed the insider. “Mel and his son spent most of the evening talking to her bodyguards.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, July 7, 2008]

There must have been no hard feelings between Britney and Mel after she tried to avoid the set up with one of his sons. She was seen at his Costa Rican getaway in mid-May. Britney also brought along a man with whom she’s been romantically linked in the past, agent Jason Trawick. Maybe Britney and Jason were already dating at that point and she wasn’t open to meeting Mel’s son or maybe she just wasn’t interested in the guy. Can you imagine thinking it’s a good idea to set up Britney Spears with a member of your family, though? At that point it had only been two months since she had that big melt down and was hospitalized.

Source: Info Jeunes

The National Enquirer are prone to lying, so take this ’story’ for what it’s worth.

I’ve been curious since the story broke as to why Mel Gibson had taken a seemingly sudden interest in Britney Spears. I was hoping maybe he was just being a nice guy and trying to help another one of La La Land’s lost souls. Turns out he may have actually been trying to play matchmaker.

Seems Mel has twin sons, 26, who have been in rehab themselves. Mel decided, according to the Enquirer, that one of his twins would be a good influence on the Britster and decided to arrange for them to meet. Mel and his son, Edward, visited Brit Brit’s home but she didn’t want anything to do with the two and hid out in her room all night.

Obviously this meeting didn’t scare Britney away too much since she ended up going on vacation with Mel and his wife, but at least it answers the burning question of just why Mel took an interest in Britney in the first place. Let’s hope he’s moved on from wannabe father-in-law to just plain friend.

Source: Info Jeunes

Hollywood star Mel Gibson is nursing a new heartbreak – a second son has reportedly checked into rehab.

Just three months after his 25 year-old son Edward checked into rehab for drink and drug problems, his twin brother Christian has checked into the same nerve center. According to US sheet The Enquirer, Christian entered rehab to battle his addiction to crack, pills and booze.

Edward was admitted to the Cri-Help center in North Hollywood back in September 2007.

Now the Enquirer claims that Christian likewise checked in scarcely before Christmas. Mad Soap star Gibson, world Health Organization was himself ordered to enroll in an alcohol maltreat program after his DUI arrest and anti-semitic rant back in July 2006, is footing the bill. He has been paying $5,five hundred a month for each twin in a bid to help them reclaim.

The costs are far less than the usual $25,000 – $30,000 it costs to stay in such celebrity friendly rehab centres like Promises in Malibu. Truck driver Tom Paige was in Cri-Help rehab centre at the time when both twins were being treated. Paige, 40, from a resident at the centre from September 2007 to earlier this month and met both Gibson boys. He told the Enquirer that both twins chequered into the center voluntarily after their famous dad got tough with them. Satchel Paige told the Inquirer: “Christian was placid in there when I left. “He entered in December after he was thrown and twisted out of a house he’d been staying at in Malibu for non paying his snag. “He told me he’d been homeless and living in his cart – and that he was addicted to crack, pills and intoxicant. “His brother Eddie entered first for a month in Sept, with alcohol and cocaine addiction.” Eddie was discharged in Oct but he non-effervescent continued to wait on twice weekly ‘alumni meetings’ which included bingo games.

Paige chatted to the gemini and watched them together – and told the Inquirer that the Althea Gibson boys had non always been a model of brotherly love. Paige added: “Eddie and his comrade were not speaking after they fought in a club over something stupid. Eddie knocked his brother out. Now they’ve kissed and made up and Christian showed me the scar on his lip.” Both of Gibson’s sons seem to have finally conquered their battle with drink and drugs. But Paige told the Enquirer that they were both in a ‘poor shape’ when they first checked into Cri-Help. He said: “Eddie was a mess.

He didn’t speak to anyone for years, he had his sweater hood over his head for the first 48 hours. One time when I asked Eddie how his papa was, he laughed grimly and said: ‘Well he hasn’t fucked up recently!’ Christian had a boneheaded beard and was only 120 pounds. He put on 30 pounds piece being treated.” Father of seven Gibson and his wife Robyn visited the twins regularly added Satchel Paige: “When they came for Halloween and one of the patients in a play was appareled as a warrior with a steel, Mel said: ‘That guy was great!’ “And the family was also there for Christmas dinner. All I saw was love and laughter.

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