When ALMA Award-winning actor Kirk Acevedo, who is of Puerto Rican and Chinese descent, got the acting gig as Carver in the action-packed thriller "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," he pondered what he would do if he were actually put in the same scenario as the film, where "a growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier."
On July 11, a number of films will enter the market place attempting to build an audience and obtain a good box office. The week will include a franchise film and two acclaimed independent films.
Tim Burton, the dark and quirky director behind classics such as The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Sweeney Todd, is currently in talks to make the sequel to the life-after-death black comedy Beetlejuice.
