The Entire Mad Max Trilogy Comes to Blu-ray June 4

2013.02.26

Mad Max, the sci-fi franchise that introduced Mel Gibson to the world, will come together for the first time as a Blu-ray collection when Warner Bros. Home Entertainment debuts "The Mad Max Trilogy" on June 4th.

The three films – Mad Max (1979), Mad Max: The Road Warrior (1982) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) – are all set in the near-future in Australia and hail from Oscar-winning director George Miller (Happy Feet). All three films star Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky, a highway cop traveling through the Outback in a society descending into chaos.

(The picture has nothing to do with the new Mad Max Blue Ray trilogy.)

Although photos of the limited premium tin packaging are not yet available, it has been revealed that the set retail for $49.99 on Blu-ray Disc. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which is making its Blu-ray debut, will also be available as a single release along with Mad Max Road Warrior.

Special features have not yet been revealed, but the films' official descriptions are listed as follows:

Mad Max (1979)
George Miller's first entry in the trilogy, Mad Max packs brutal action and insane stunts as it follows the inevitable downfall of relentless cop Max Rockatansky (Gibson) in a world gone mad. Living on the edge of an apocalypse, Max is ready to run far away from it all with his family. But when he experiences an unfortunate encounter with a motorcycle gang and its menacing leader, the Toecutter, his retreat from the madness of the world is now a race to save his family's life.

Mad Max Road Warrior (1982)
The sequel to Mad Max, Mad Max Road Warrior provides action-packed, “automotive” entertainment, telling the story of a selfish-turned-selfless hero and his efforts to protect a small camp of desert survivors and defend an oil refinery under siege from a ferocious marauding horde that plunders the land for gasoline.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Mel Gibson returns for his third go-round as the title hero who takes on the barbarians of the post-nuclear future - and this time becomes the savior of a tribe of lost children. Music superstar Tina Turner co-stars as Aunty Entity, a power-mad dominatrix determined to use Max to tighten her stranglehold on Bartertown, where fresh water, clean food and gasoline are worth more than gold.

Source: ComingSoon

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Mel Gibson & Gerard Butler Out & About in Miami

2013.02.04

Mel Gibson appears to have befriended fellow actor Gerard Butler. They were spotted deep in conversation as they walked together in Miami in Saturday. And with their complementary outfits of button down shirts and shorts they certainly seemed to be on the same wavelength.
They had previously been seen enjoying a dinner with friends a few days previously at Zuma in the beachside city.

Source: DailyMail

The father-of-eight has various films planned but is currently not filming.
View more pictures and in full size in Mel Gibson Album.

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A friend of Gibson pens a long and impassioned defense of the actor

2013.01.24

As a long-time reader, I would very much like to sign up for a yearly membership to your site.  However, you make it very difficult when you get simple factual details incorrect.  Please read this to the end, because I have a question for you.

I am speaking of the Jodie Foster speech, and your Mel Gibson comments specifically.  Mr. Sullivan, you repeatedly refer to Mr. Gibson as "a wife beater."  Does it bother you at all that Mr. Gibson has NEVER ONCE been accused of being a wife beater?  Mr. Gibson was married to Robyn Moore for 30 years, and even in their divorce papers, Ms. Moore praised him and testified under oath that "he never once displayed a violent temper to her, or their seven children, and that he was in fact an excellent father to their children." Would you be interested in knowing that Mr. Gibson and Ms. Moore even now have such an outstanding relationship that they are continuing to raise their seven children and three grandchildren, and that they continue to run the charity they began together?

You continue with the 25-year-old canard that Mel Gibson is homophobic [and misogynistic]. That one makes me laugh! Jodie Foster has been good friends with Mel Gibson for over 20 years.  Don't you think that she knows him better than you? 

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Source: AndrewSullivan.TheDailyBeast

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Jodie Foster Is 'Real,' Says Adoring Mel Gibson

2013.01.14

After giving close friend Mel Gibson a shout-out in her moving speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Jodie Foster's Beaver costar is returning the love.

"I kiss the ground she walks on," the actor, 57, told PEOPLE at the InStyle/Warner Brothers afterparty. "I adore her."

The double Oscar-winning actress, 50, who has supported Gibson through his dark times, brought many in the ballroom to tears with her emotional speech in which she opened up about her personal life, including her sexuality.

"I thought [her speech] was great," he said. "I love her."

Gibson, who called his longtime friend's support of him "so flattering," shared why he thought Foster was so deserving of the Cecil B. DeMille Award and outpouring of support at her revelation.

"Because she's real," he said simply.

Source: People

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Jodie Foster on Mel Gibson

2013.01.14

“He’s so incredibly loving and sensitive, he really is,” she says. “He is the most loved actor I have ever worked with on a movie. And he’s not saintly, and he’s got a big mouth, and he’ll do gross things your nephew would do. But I knew the minute I met him that I would love him the rest of my life.”

She adds: “I know him in a very complex way. He’s a real person; he’s not a cardboard cutout. I know that he has troubles, and when you love somebody you don’t just walk away from them when they are struggling.”

Foster and Gibson — the yin and yang of American pop culture, its moral avatar and current nemesis — have been close friends since they met on 1994’s Maverick.

Before Gibson’s relationship with Oksana Grigorieva exploded in the public eye, he confided in Foster. “We talked about it all the way through, about what was going on in his life,” she says. “I don’t think he told me until it was something he couldn’t handle by himself.”

Even while editing Beaver, Foster was aware that recordings of Gibson’s rants would be made public. “I knew about that,” she says. “He was upset. Then, on the last day of reshoots of Mel, it all came out.”

She pauses, and this exceptionally intelligent, highly controlled woman has tears in her eyes.

“God, I love that man,” Foster says. “The performance he gave in this movie, I will always be grateful for. He brought a lifetime of pain to the character that we’ve been talking about for years, that I knew was part of his psyche and who he is. It’s part of him that is beautiful and that I want people to know, too. I can’t ever regret that.”

To read the full article visit the source: HollywoodReporter

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