The Ladd Company

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The Ladd Company is a film production and distribution company founded by Alan Ladd, Jr. in 1979, after ending his job as President of 20th Century Fox. [1] Under Warner Bros., it was most famous for the Henry Winkler comedy Night Shift, the first two Police Academy movies, the space epic The Right Stuff, and Ridley Scott's sci-fi film Blade Runner.

The box-office failure of Right Stuff and the animated Twice Upon a Time (co-produced with Lucasfilm) sent the company in oblivion for over a decade. Amid a brief revival with Paramount Pictures in the mid-1990s, it produced the Best Picture Oscar winner, Mel Gibson's Braveheart, and two films based on the 1970s TV series The Brady Bunch: The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel. Ladd's most recent release was the 2005 Lasse Hallström drama, An Unfinished Life, distributed by Miramax Films.

[edit] External link

• The Ladd Company at the Internet Movie Database