The Ladd Company

For the 19th-century company that developed the first commercial sugar plantation in Hawaii, see Ladd & Co..

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 produced Chariots of Fire, which won the 1981 Academy Award for Best Picture, plus the space epic The Right Stuff, the space western Outland, Ridley Scott's sci-fi film Blade Runner, neo-noir film Body Heat and the first two Police Academy movies, amongst others.

The box-office failure of The 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 Braveheart, 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.

External links

• The Ladd Company at the Internet Movie Database