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Sort by Popularity. View full company info for The Ladd Company (US) 1. Blade Runner. 1982 1h 57m R. 8.1 (817K) Rate. 84 Metascore. A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
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 ...
The Ladd Company was an American film production company that co-produced Blade Runner with Run Run Shaw and Tandem Productions. The company essentially became defunct in 1985, but was revived for four films in the mid-1990s and two in the mid-2000s.
The Ladd Company distributed Chariots of Fire, which won the 1981 Academy Award for Best Picture. [3] 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.
Background: The Ladd Company was formed in 1979 by Alan Ladd Jr., Jay Kanter, and Gareth Wigan. Ladd was, prior to the studio's founding, the president of 20th Century Fox, and Kanter and Wigan were 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 and form a production company to be financed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Soon after they left Fox, the trio placed ads for the newly named
Sep 27, 2007 · Between his stint as production president at Fox and chairman of MGM, Alan Ladd Jr. ran a rather singular production company — the Ladd Co. — at Warner Bros. Forged in 1979 with Warner’s ...
Ladd was, prior to the studio's founding, the president of 20th Century Fox, and Kanter and Wigan were 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 and form a production company to be financed by Warner Bros.
