You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LOS ANGELES (AP) – Mel Gibson’s bloody epic “Apocalypto” debuted as the No.

It’s safe to say that only Mel Gibson could have made Apocalypto. No other director would have been able to gather enough funding to produce a film with mostly non-actors in a Mayan dialect. Yet for ...

“Apocalypto” (2006, Buena Vista, R, $30): Set in the 1500s during the waning days of the Mayan Empire, Mel Gibson’s savage pulse-pounder tells a remarkable story of human survival almost exclusively ...

While the holidays boosted specialty titles like “Letters From Iwo Jima” and “Babel,” Mel Gibson’s holdover “Apocalypto” seemed stuck in neutral, after generating surprising heat in its debut three ...

With Apocalypto, Mel Gibson has taken on a tough challenge in focusing on a civilization that no longer exists and that is not terribly important to most Americans. With the same passion that he put ...

But then it wouldn’t be a Mel Gibson film, would it? The exhilarating adventure tale in the Yucatec Maya tongue is Gibson’s fourth turn behind the camera — and his bloodiest. As a director, he seems ...

Movies are, in their nature, violent. Every shot in every film begins with the director calling “action,” and more often than not – more often, certainly, than in real life – someone gets hit, stomped ...

"Apocalypto" turns out to be not a case of Montezuma's revenge but of Mel Gibson's: It's something entirely unexpected, a sinewy, taut poem of action. Brazenly politically incorrect, it actually ...

If you’ve been waiting 18 years for an Apocalypto sequel, stop refreshing Mel Gibson’s IMDb page. It’s not coming. But the good news is that Jason Momoa basically beat him to it. Chief of War, now ...

Native American, of Comanche, Cree and Yaqui descent. Native name is Tee-Dee-Nae. Previously worked at construction jobs. Was selected from a general casting call to play the leading role of Jaguar ...