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. 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 sent the company in oblivion for over a decade.

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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. 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 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 releases are the 2005 Lasse Hallström drama, An Unfinished Life and the 2007 Ben Affleck drama Gone Baby Gone, both distributed by Miramax Films.
  • The Ladd Company ist eine US-amerikanische Filmproduktions- und -verleihfirma.
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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. 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 sent the company in oblivion for over a decade.
  • The Ladd Company ist eine US-amerikanische Filmproduktions- und -verleihfirma.
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