Mel Gibson

By Kyle Buchanan 31. Sam Mendes 32. Mel Gibson 33. The Wachowski Bros. 34. J.J. Abrams 35. Alfonso Cuaron 36. Hayao Miyazaki 37. Mike Leigh 38. Oliver Stone 39. Roman Polanski 40. Spike Jonze 41. Richard Linklater 42. Spike Lee 43. David Lynch 44. Wong Kar-Wai 45. Wes Anderson 46. Mira Nair 47. Andrew Stanton 48. Michael Moore

By STV Warner Bros. on Wednesday acquired the domestic rights to Edge of Darkness, featuring Gibson as a Boston detective grappling with his only child's murder. Martin Campbell directed, Robert De Niro walked out, and everyone remaining is preparing for the shitstorm forecast for Gibson's r...

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By STV The film would have been the first installment in the series since 1998, when Lethal Weapon 4 grossed $285 million globally for Warner Bros. Original Lethal Weapon screenwriter Shane Black had a script out to Joel Silver, who wanted Black to direct after their collaboration on Kiss Kiss B...

By STV Disney chose a different strategy with December 2006's Mel Gibson movie Apocalypto, whose release came on the heels of the actor-filmmaker's notorious anti-Semitic arrest rant. ... Although Gibson and CNN's Anderson Cooper famously didn't quite hit it off, the filmmaker was able to talk...

By Seth In today's jam-packed episode: Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart; Steven Spielberg, Heather Locklear, Kobe Bryant, and Andy Garcia; Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli; Meg Ryan, Matthew Perry and Kevin Pollak; Dennis Hopper and Adrian Grenier; Melanie Griffith; Emmanuelle Chriq...

By Mark Valkyrie is a period piece with a downer ending, but at least it's directed by Bryan Singer, who has The Usual Suspects and the first two X-Men to his credit. He might be able to make a movie that has some box office appeal, though whether the public is prepared to swallow Cruise in a Nazi unifor...

Yesterday, just a little over one year since the fateful night part-time Costa Rican resident Mel Gibson strolled out of a Malibu cocktail lounge and into infamy as the Hebrew-hatingest, sugartit-leeriest Oscar winner in all of Hollywood, a judge declared the actor free from having to...

By Mark At the end of a year in which it would take the revelation that Mel Gibson actually engaged in human sacrifice during the shooting of Apocalypto to top the scandals the Jew-impugning, sugar-tits-slandering star has already weathered, this recent British tabloid report about an Austra...

By Mark With Apocalypto's first-place-but-really-not-that-impressive opening, Disney's president of distribution is declaring the result the triumph of Art over Media Sensationalism, telling the LAT: "They judged the movie, not the man. It's so hard to get noticed in this crowded market...

By Seth A Defamer operative at last night's cast and crew showing of Mel Gibson's jungle-set gorefest Apocalypto sends in this report, in which the nervous director himself was present to hand-deliver his barbaric, Mayan-flaying baby to the hard workers who helped bring it to the screen:

By Seth · "'There are gruesome, lingering shots of people having their faces torn off, their hearts ripped out, and worse,' noted one AintItCoolNews.com reviewer who said he loved the film but was 'shocked' by the violence. 'Mel Gibson may be an anti-Semitic, alcoholic, gore-obsessed maniac, [...

By Seth The 50-year-old actor-director added: "They'll probably torture him for a while and then let him go. I like him." [...] No, people aren't like that," Gibson tells the magazine. "Those are just the headlines: Mel ostracized by Hollywood! Hollywood is what you make it. There is no great pooh-bah u...

By Mark · Today on Good Morning America, Courtney Love revealed that Mel Gibson helped her get sober. Too bad; had Gibson decided to instead join together their substance-abusing tendencies, they could have formed a drug-addicted duo so formidable that not even an entire army of sugartitted an...