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- The Ladd Company war eine US-amerikanische Filmproduktions- und -verleihfirma, die zwischen 1979 und 2007 aktiv war. (de)
- The Ladd Company est une société de production et de distribution cinématographique fondée par Alan Ladd Jr. en 1979, après la fin de son travail en tant que président de la 20th Century Fox. Grâce à Warner Bros., The Ladd Company a produit notamment Les Chariots de feu (1981), L'Étoffe des héros (1983), Outland (1981), Blade Runner (1982), La Fièvre au corps (1981) et la série de films Police Academy (à partir de 1984). L'échec au box-office de L'Étoffe des héros et du film d'animation Twice Upon a Time (coproduit avec Lucasfilm) a mis en difficulté la société pendant plus d'une décennie. Après un bref retour avec Paramount Pictures dans le milieu des années 1990, elle a produit notamment Braveheart (1995) et Les Nouvelles Aventures de la famille Brady (1996). Parmi les productions plus récentes de la société se trouve Une vie inachevée (2005) et Gone Baby Gone (2007), tous deux distribués par Miramax Films. (fr)
- The Ladd Company was an American film production company founded by Alan Ladd Jr., Jay Kanter, and Gareth Wigan in 1979. In 1979, the three founders were executives with 20th Century Fox; Ladd was the president. They announced their intention to leave the company when their contracts expired in December 1980 and form a new production company to be financed by Warner Bros. (Ladd had reportedly been quarreling with other Fox senior executives.) Fox subsequently cut their contracts short, ending on October 1, 1979. The day after the contracts expired, the trio placed ads for the newly named "Ladd Company" in The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. Under Warner Bros., The Ladd Company distributed Chariots of Fire, which won the 1981 Academy Award for Best Picture. Among the films it produced were the Space Race epic The Right Stuff, the space western Outland, Ridley Scott's science-fiction cult film Blade Runner, neo-noir film Body Heat, and the first two Police Academy movies. Police Academy proved very profitable. But the returns from the company's successes did not outweigh the box-office failures of The Right Stuff, the edited version of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, and the animated Twice Upon a Time (co-produced with Lucasfilm). On April 18, 1984, Alan Ladd Jr. and Warner Bros. parted ways, even though the former still had three years left on the studio's contract. From that point on, "the Ladd Company [would] become a non-exclusive production organization." During a brief partnership with Paramount Pictures in the mid-1990s, the company produced The Brady Bunch Movie and the Best Picture Oscar winner Braveheart. Ladd's later releases are the 2005 Lasse Hallström drama, An Unfinished Life, and the 2007 Ben Affleck drama Gone Baby Gone, both distributed by Miramax Films. (en)
- The Ladd Company è una casa di produzione e distribuzione cinematografica statunitense. (it)
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- The Ladd Company war eine US-amerikanische Filmproduktions- und -verleihfirma, die zwischen 1979 und 2007 aktiv war. (de)
- The Ladd Company è una casa di produzione e distribuzione cinematografica statunitense. (it)
- The Ladd Company est une société de production et de distribution cinématographique fondée par Alan Ladd Jr. en 1979, après la fin de son travail en tant que président de la 20th Century Fox. Grâce à Warner Bros., The Ladd Company a produit notamment Les Chariots de feu (1981), L'Étoffe des héros (1983), Outland (1981), Blade Runner (1982), La Fièvre au corps (1981) et la série de films Police Academy (à partir de 1984). Parmi les productions plus récentes de la société se trouve Une vie inachevée (2005) et Gone Baby Gone (2007), tous deux distribués par Miramax Films. (fr)
- The Ladd Company was an American film production company founded by Alan Ladd Jr., Jay Kanter, and Gareth Wigan in 1979. In 1979, the three founders were executives with 20th Century Fox; Ladd was the president. They announced their intention to leave the company when their contracts expired in December 1980 and form a new production company to be financed by Warner Bros. (Ladd had reportedly been quarreling with other Fox senior executives.) Fox subsequently cut their contracts short, ending on October 1, 1979. The day after the contracts expired, the trio placed ads for the newly named "Ladd Company" in The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. (en)
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