The Ladd Company

The Ladd Company was an American film production company founded by Alan Ladd, Jr., Jay Kanter, and Gareth Wigan in 1979. 
Prior to the company's formation, Ladd was President of 20th Century Fox, and Kanter & Wigan also served as Fox executives. As the alleged results of quarreling between Ladd and the studio higher-ups, the trio announced their intents to leave Fox when their contracts expired in December 1980 and form a production company to be financed by Warner Bros. 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., it distributed Chariots of Fire, which won the 1981 Academy Award for Best Picture, and produced 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.
Even with the phenomenal success of Police Academy, the good business couldn't outweigh the bad, as 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) sent the company towards oblivion. 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, 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.
in 2023, the company revived and the company's releases were distributed by the Hartnett's minor divisions, Warner Bros. (with New Line Cinema), Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures, Fox-Weinstein-Dimension, and Lionsgate's American Artists Distribution in the future.
==List of Ladd Company Films==
Film 	Year	Studio 	Notes
Divine Madness! 	1980	Warner Bros 	
Outland 	1981	Warner Bros 	
Body Heat 	1981	Warner Bros 	
Chariots of Fire 	1981	Warner Bros 	Distribution in association with Warner Bros. only
Looker 	1981	Warner Bros 	
Blade Runner 	1982	Warner Bros 	Was released in three different versions, in 1982, 1992, and 2007co-production with Jerry Perenchio, Sir Run Run Shaw, and Bud Yorkin
Night Shift 	1982	Warner Bros 	
Love Child 	1982	Warner Bros 	
Five Days One Summer 	1982	Warner Bros 	
Lovesick 	1983	Warner Bros 	
Twice Upon a Time 	1983	Warner Bros 	
The Right Stuff 	1983	Warner Bros 	Limited release in October 1983, wide release in 1984; Unexpected box office failure, considered one of the causes of the company's demise at Warner Bros.
Star 80 	1983	Warner Bros 	
Mike's Murder 	1984	Warner Bros 	
Police Academy 	1984	Warner Bros 	
Purple Hearts 	1984	Warner Bros 	
Once Upon a Time in America 	1984	Warner Bros 	
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment	1985	Warner Bros 	First Ladd Company film not to have the company's logo screen at the beginning of the film, has caption that reads "The Ladd Company Presents" at the beginning of the opening credits instead.
Doin' Time 	1985	Warner Bros 	Final Ladd Company picture released by Warner Bros.
Braveheart 	1995	Paramount Pictures (Domestic) / Twentieth Century Fox (International)	co-production with Icon Productions
The Phantom 	1996	Paramount Pictures 	co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures
A Very Brady Sequel 	1996	Paramount Pictures 	
An Unfinished Life 	2005	Miramax Films 	co-production with Revolution Studios
Gone Baby Gone 	2007	Miramax Films 	
Police Academy 8 	TBA 	Warner Bros. 	Warner Bros. & The Ladd Company Reunited for the 8th Police Academy movie
Breaking Heartland 	TBA 	Warner Bros. 	co-production with The Montecito Picture Company
Thrice Upon A Time 	TBA 	Warner Bros.
New Line Cinema 	live-action/CGI sequel to Twice Upon A Time; co-production with LucasFilm.
Poison Ivy: Every Rose Has Its Thorn 	TBA 	Warner Bros.
New Line Cinema 	Fifth Poison Ivy movie
St. Patrick 	TBA 	Warner Bros.
New Line Cinema 	Leprechaun adventure movie; co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures.
Lace 	TBA 	Warner Bros.
New Line Cinema
Lorimar 	Movie adaptation of the 1984-85 miniseries.
American Independence 	TBA 	Warner Bros.
New Line Cinema
Lorimar
Village Roadshow 	4 July Movie
Deadly Friend 	TBA 	Warner Bros.
New Line Cinema
Blumhouse 	James TheLogoMan's version of the remake adaptation of the 1986 film.
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