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Alan Ladd Jr, who commissioned George Lucas to write Star Wars, won a Best Picture Oscar for producing Braveheart and was an influential executive for Fox and MGM/United Artists, died March 2, his family said. He was 84. His daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones, who directed the 2017 feature documentary Laddie: The Man Behind th…

Actor Mike Mitchell, a former Mr. Universe who went on to appear in the films Braveheart and Gladiator, died Friday at age 65 on a boat in Turkey. His family reportedly attributed his passing to natural causes. Mitchell began his career as a bodybuilder. He won the Mr. Universe title, and went on to win many World…

Screen Media has taken the wraps of the trail for Robert the Bruce, the follow-up to events depicted in Mel Gibson’s Oscar-winning Braveheart, about Scotland’s fight for independence from England in the 1300s. The pic is directed by Richard Gray and co-written by Eric Belgau and Angus Macfadyen, who returns to his Brav…

"If you'd talk a little, I wouldn't have to talk so much!" Amanda Ladd Jones tells her father, the long-time film executive and producer Alan Ladd Jr., early in her documentary tribute, Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies. I know how she feels. Ladd, now 80 years old, was famous not just for his taste and tenacity—films…

Twenty years ago, Braveheart debuted in theaters to critical raves. The epic movie, directed by and starring Mel Gibson and written by Randall Wallace, went on to win five Oscars, including Best Picture. Tuesday marks the street date for Wallace’s book Living The Braveheart Life: Finding The Courage To Follow Your Hear…

How ironic is it that Hollywood studios walk on eggshells with faith-based groups hoping their religious epics like Noah do a fraction of the business Mel Gibson did with The Passion Of The Christ, while those studios continue to shun Gibson like a leper? What better way to commemorate Passion‘s 10th anniversary than j…