109-821: The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday sister paper of the Daily Mirror . It began life in 1915 as the Sunday Pictorial and was renamed the Sunday Mirror in 1963. In 2016 it had an average weekly circulation of 620,861, dropping markedly to 505,508 the following year. Competing closely with other papers, in July 2011, on the second weekend after the closure of the News of the World , more than 2,000,000 copies sold,
218-682: A Lethal Weapon 5 . In May 2023, it was announced that Gibson would direct a film titled Flight Risk , starring Mark Wahlberg . Set to be released by Lionsgate , the film will star Wahlberg as "a pilot transporting a dangerous criminal for trial." It was later reported that the film had begun shooting in Las Vegas on June 16. Filming was reportedly unaffected by the SAG-AFTRA strike , having been exempted as an independent project. Gibson has credited his directors, particularly George Miller , Peter Weir , and Richard Donner , with teaching him
327-679: A Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute . In 1985, Gibson was named as People magazine's first Sexiest Man Alive . In 1995, Gibson produced, directed, and starred in Braveheart , a historical epic , for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director , the Academy Award for Best Director , and the Academy Award for Best Picture . He later directed and produced The Passion of
436-661: A Face (1993), Braveheart (1995), The Passion of the Christ (2004), and Apocalypto (2006). Jess Cagle of Time compared Gibson with Cary Grant , Sean Connery , and Robert Redford . Connery once suggested Gibson should play the next James Bond to Connery's "M" . Gibson turned down the role, reportedly because he feared being typecast . Gibson studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. As students, Gibson and actress Judy Davis played
545-522: A Scottish nationalist who was executed in 1305 for " high treason " against King Edward I of England . Gibson received two Academy Awards , Best Director and Best Picture , for his second directorial effort. In winning the Academy Award for Best Director, Gibson became only the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to do so. Braveheart influenced the Scottish nationalist movement and helped to revive
654-546: A Wire , Air America , and Hamlet . During the 1990s, Gibson alternated between commercial and personal projects. His films in the first half of the decade were Forever Young , Lethal Weapon 3 , Maverick , and Braveheart . He then starred in Ransom , Conspiracy Theory , Lethal Weapon 4 , and Payback . Gibson also served as the speaking and singing voice of John Smith in Disney 's Pocahontas . Gibson
763-430: A broader focus. Harmsworth appointed Hamilton Fyfe as editor and all of the paper's female journalists were fired. The masthead was changed to The Daily Illustrated Mirror , which ran from 26 January to 27 April 1904 (issues 72 to 150), when it reverted to The Daily Mirror . The first issue of the relaunched paper did not have advertisements on the front page as previously, but instead news text and engraved pictures (of
872-463: A couple of years later because I wasn't the archetypal Australian. He had Mark Lee, the angelic-looking, ideal Australian kid, and he wanted something of a modern sensibility. He thought the audience needed someone to relate to of their own time. Gibson later said that Gallipoli is, "Not really a war movie. That's just the backdrop. It's really the story of two young men." The critically acclaimed film helped to further launch Gibson's career. He won
981-571: A decline shared by its direct tabloid rivals The Sun and the Daily Star . Morgan was fired from the Mirror on 14 May 2004 after authorising the newspaper's publication of photographs allegedly showing Iraqi prisoners being abused by British Army soldiers from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment . Within days the photographs were shown to be fakes. Under the headline "SORRY.. WE WERE HOAXED",
1090-415: A feat never repeated by it or any other daily (non-Sunday) British newspaper since. The Mirror was owned by Robert Maxwell between 1984 and 1991. The paper went through a protracted period of crisis after his death before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity in 1999 to form Trinity Mirror . The Daily Mirror was launched on 2 November 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as
1199-579: A few episodes of Complete Savages for the ABC network. In 2006, he directed the action-adventure film Apocalypto , his second film to feature sparse dialogue in a non-English language. Gibson has expressed an intention to direct a movie set during the Viking Age , starring Leonardo DiCaprio . Like The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto , he wants this speculative film to feature dialogue in period languages. However, DiCaprio ultimately opted out of
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#17327660254721308-476: A film called The Passion in Aramaic and Latin with no subtitles because he hoped to "transcend language barriers with filmic storytelling." In 2004, he released the controversial film The Passion of the Christ , with subtitles, which he co-wrote, co-produced, and directed. The film went on to become the highest-grossing rated R film at the time with $ 370,782,930 in U.S. box office sales. Gibson directed
1417-622: A marketing exercise with Pepsi-Cola , who on the same day had decided to relaunch its cans with a blue design instead of the traditional red and white logo. Source: Tabloid Nation Notable former and current columnists of the Daily Mirror include: The Daily Mirror won "Newspaper of the Year" in 2002 at the British Press Awards . It won "Scoop of the Year" in 2003 ("3am", 'Sven and Ulrika'), 2004 (Ryan Parry, 'Intruder at
1526-742: A movie star and would only act in film again if the script were truly extraordinary. In 2010, Gibson appeared in Edge of Darkness , which marked his first starring role since 2002 and was an adaptation of the BBC miniseries, Edge of Darkness . In June of the same year, Gibson was in Brownsville, Texas , filming scenes for the film Get the Gringo , about a career criminal put in a tough prison in Mexico. In 2010, following an outburst at his ex-girlfriend that
1635-403: A newspaper for women, run by women. About the name, he said: "I intend it to be really a mirror of feminine life as well on its grave as on its lighter sides ... to be entertaining without being frivolous, and serious without being dull." It cost one penny (equivalent to 57p in 2023). It was not an immediate success and in 1904 Harmsworth decided to turn it into a pictorial newspaper with
1744-582: A number of Gibson's alleged "hateful rants". In a 2012 interview, Gibson explained that the Maccabees film was still in preparation. He explained that he was drawn to the Biblical account of the uprising due to its similarity to the American Old West genre . In June 2016, Gibson announced that he will reunite with Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace to make a sequel for The Passion of
1853-528: A number of projects for television, including a biopic on the Three Stooges and the 2008 PBS documentary Carrier . Icon has grown from being just a production company to also be an international distribution company and film exhibitor in Australia and New Zealand. Gibson is credited as an executive producer of the 2023 movie Sound of Freedom , a film based on a true story which revolves around
1962-489: A penchant for violence and gunplay. In the films, he is partnered with a reserved family man named Roger Murtaugh ( Danny Glover ) and starting with the second film, they're joined by a hyperactive informant named Leo Getz ( Joe Pesci ). Following the success of Lethal Weapon , director Richard Donner and principal cast revisited the characters in three sequels, Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Lethal Weapon 3 (1993), and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998). With its fourth installment,
2071-462: A resurgence with his performance in Edge of Darkness (2010) and Jodie Foster 's The Beaver (2011). His directorial comeback after an absence of 10 years, Hacksaw Ridge (2016), won two Academy Awards , and was nominated for another four including Best Picture and Best Director for Gibson, his second nomination in the category. Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York , of Irish descent,
2180-526: A role on the Australian television series The Sullivans . In his career, Gibson has appeared in 43 films, including the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon film series. In addition to acting, Gibson has also directed four films, including Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ ; produced 11 films; and written two films. Films either starring or directed by Mel Gibson have earned over US$ 2.5 billion, in
2289-554: A time when opinion polls showed the party on course for their worst election result since 1983. The newspaper was critical of the Liberal Democrats for forming the coalition which enabled the Conservatives to form a new government in 2010, and branded leader Nick Clegg as Pinickio (alluding to the lying fictional character Pinocchio ) for going back on numerous pre-election pledges. It has frequently referred to
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#17327660254722398-438: A traitor and an actress), with the promise of photographs inside. Two days later, the price was dropped to one halfpenny and to the masthead was added: "A paper for men and women". This combination was more successful: by issue 92, the guaranteed circulation was 120,000 copies and by issue 269, it had grown to 200,000: by then the name had reverted and the front page was mainly photographs. Circulation grew to 466,000 making it
2507-404: Is also an actor. Gibson's first name is derived from St Mel's Cathedral , situated in his mother's hometown of Longford . His second name, Colmcille , is also shared with an Irish saint. Because of his mother, Gibson retains dual Irish and American citizenship. Gibson is also an Australian permanent resident . Gibson's father was awarded US$ 145,000 in a work-related-injury lawsuit against
2616-473: Is an American actor and filmmaker. The recipient of multiple accolades , he is known for his action hero roles, particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the post-apocalyptic action series Mad Max and as Martin Riggs in the buddy cop action-comedy film series Lethal Weapon . Born in Peekskill, New York , Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia, when he
2725-515: Is the first Mirror Group Newspapers journalist to admit to phone hacking. He voluntarily contacted police in 2013. Daily Mirror The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper . Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc . From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply The Mirror . It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803
2834-458: The 2003 invasion of Iraq , and ran many front pages critical of the war. It also gave financial support to the 15 February 2003 anti-war protest , paying for a large screen and providing thousands of placards. Morgan re-hired John Pilger , who had been sacked during Robert Maxwell 's ownership of the Mirror titles. Despite such changes, Morgan was unable to halt the paper's decline in circulation,
2943-523: The 2010 UK general election two days later, confirming the Daily Mirror ' s Labour allegiance. The election ended in Britain's first hung parliament since 1974 but Cameron still became prime minister within days as the Conservatives formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats . The Daily Mirror was the only leading national newspaper to remain loyal to Labour and Gordon Brown at
3052-460: The 2019 UK general election , the newspaper again endorsed Labour "to protect NHS, end poverty and for a kinder Britain." The Daily Mirror threw its support behind the Labour Party for the 2024 UK general election , stating that "a Labour government is more crucial than ever for the new generation." On 2 April 1996, the Daily Mirror was printed entirely on blue paper. This was done as
3161-540: The Conservative prime minister with another, Alec Douglas-Home . This leader was less popular, and alongside many press reports of scandals in the Macmillan Ministry , this led to the party's election defeat of 1964 and to the establishment of the second Labour government after World War II led by two-time prime minister Harold Wilson . In 1974, following a succession of editors, Robert Edwards took
3270-507: The Daily and Sunday Mirror moved to Trinity Mirror's facilities in Watford and Oldham. Under the editorship of Piers Morgan (from October 1995 to May 2004) the paper saw a number of controversies. Morgan was widely criticised and forced to apologise for the headline "ACHTUNG! SURRENDER For you Fritz, ze Euro 96 Championship is over" a day before England met Germany in a semi-final of
3379-523: The Daily Mirror remained loyal to Labour and urged its readers to vote for the party, then led by Michael Foot , condemning the Thatcher-led Tory government for its "waste of our nation", as well as the rise in unemployment that Thatcher's Conservative government had seen in its first term in power largely due to monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation, although the government's previously low popularity had dramatically improved since
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3488-829: The Euro 96 football championships. In 2000, Morgan was the subject of an investigation after Suzy Jagger wrote a story in The Daily Telegraph revealing that he had bought £20,000 worth of shares in the computer company Viglen soon before the Mirror ' s 'City Slickers' column tipped Viglen as a good buy. Morgan was found by the Press Complaints Commission to have breached the Code of Conduct on financial journalism, but kept his job. The 'City Slickers' columnists, Anil Bhoyrul and James Hipwell , were both found to have committed further breaches of
3597-642: The Herald competing with the Mirror for readers, and in 1964, relaunched it as a mid-market paper, now named The Sun . When it failed to win readers, The Sun was sold to Rupert Murdoch – who immediately relaunched it as a more populist and sensationalist tabloid and a direct competitor to the Mirror . In an attempt to cater to a different kind of reader, the Mirror launched the "Mirrorscope" pull-out section on 30 January 1968. The Press Gazette commented: "The Daily Mirror launched its revolutionary four-page supplement "Mirrorscope". The ambitious brief for
3706-621: The Inspire Me podcast that he would direct the fifth installment of the Lethal Weapon franchise and that the film would stay true to Donner's vision and influence. Gibson also stated that he and Glover would return to play their respective roles of Riggs and Murtaugh. Gibson made the unusual transition from action to classical drama, playing William Shakespeare 's Danish prince in Franco Zeffirelli 's Hamlet . Gibson
3815-514: The Labour Party since the 1945 UK general election . On the day of the 1979 UK general election , the Daily Mirror urged its readers to vote for the governing Labour Party led by James Callaghan . As widely predicted by the opinion polls, Labour lost this election and Conservative Margaret Thatcher became prime minister. The Mirror ' s continued support of the Labour government
3924-462: The Lethal Weapon series embodied "the quintessence of the buddy cop pic ". The film series has since been rebooted with a television adaptation , which aired for three seasons on FOX . On November 15, 2021, Gibson confirmed that he will direct the fifth Lethal Weapon film following the death of director Richard Donner . "The man who directed all the 'Lethal films', Richard Donner, he
4033-517: The Mad Max series of films, Peter Weir 's Gallipoli (1981), and the Lethal Weapon series of films earned him the label of "action hero". Later, Gibson expanded into a variety of acting projects including human dramas such as the Franco Zeffirelli film version of Hamlet (1990), and comedic roles such as those in Maverick (1994) and What Women Want (2000). He expanded beyond acting into directing and producing, with: The Man Without
4142-422: The Mirror attempted to move mid-market, claiming to eschew the more trivial stories of show-business and gossip. The paper changed its masthead logo from red to black (and occasionally blue), in an attempt to dissociate itself from the term " red top ", a term for a sensationalist mass-market tabloid. (On 6 April 2005, the red top came back.) Under then-editor Piers Morgan , the newspaper's editorial stance opposed
4251-457: The Mirror in circulation, and in 1984 the Mirror was sold to Robert Maxwell . The first Mirror using colour appeared on the 1st August 1988 edition. Following Maxwell's death in 1991, David Montgomery became Mirror Group's CEO, and a period of cost-cutting and production changes ensued. The Mirror went through a protracted period of crisis before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity to form Trinity Mirror in 1999. Printing of
4360-580: The Mirror responded that it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax" and apologised for the publication of the photographs. The Mirror 's front page on 4 November 2004, after the re-election of George W. Bush as U.S. president, read "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?". It provided a list of states and their alleged average IQ, showing the Bush states all below average intelligence (except for Virginia ), and all John Kerry states at or above average intelligence. The source for this table
4469-627: The Mirror was struggling – it and the Mail were the main casualties of the early 1930s circulation war that saw the Daily Herald and the Daily Express establish circulations of more than two million, and Rothermere decided to sell his shares in it. In 1935 Rothermere sold the paper to Harry Guy Bartholomew and Hugh Cudlipp . With Cecil King (Rothermere's nephew) in charge of the paper's finances and Guy Bartholomew as editor, during
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4578-672: The New York Central Railroad on February 14, 1968 (equivalent to $ 1,270,450 in 2023), and soon afterwards relocated his family to West Pymble , Sydney, Australia. Gibson was 12 years old at the time. The move to his grandmother's native Australia was for economic reasons, and his father's expectation that the Australian Defence Forces would reject his eldest son for the draft during the Vietnam War . During his high school years, Gibson
4687-541: The Sunday Mirror broke the world exclusive that one of the two Moors murderers , Ian Brady, had died but been resuscitated, brought back to life against his will. The Sunday Mirror also ran a campaign to make Twitter take action to prevent paedophiles using it to contact each other and trade obscene pictures. As a result of this story and others, Twitter agreed to make changes to its policies. A former Sunday Mirror investigations editor, Graham Johnson , pleaded guilty to intercepting voicemail messages in 2001. Johnson
4796-481: The Sunday Pic to reflect the greater social awareness of the post-war years. In all, Cudlipp edited the title for three long spells. After his final editorship in 1953 he became editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the Daily Mirror , to a circulation in excess of five million copies. In 1963 the newspaper's name was changed to the Sunday Mirror . One of
4905-698: The leads in Romeo and Juliet , and Gibson played the role of Queen Titania in an experimental production of A Midsummer Night's Dream . After graduation in 1977, Gibson immediately began work on the filming of Mad Max , but continued to work as a stage actor, and joined the State Theatre Company of South Australia in Adelaide . Gibson's theatrical credits include the character Estragon (opposite Geoffrey Rush ) in Waiting for Godot , and
5014-670: The Andy Capp cartoon, created by Reg Smythe from Hartlepool, in the northern editions. The Mirror 's mass working-class readership had made it the United Kingdom's best-selling daily tabloid newspaper. In 1960, it acquired the Daily Herald (the popular daily of the labour movement) when it bought Odhams , in one of a series of takeovers which created the International Publishing Corporation (IPC). The Mirror management did not want
5123-605: The British daily newspaper market, selling more than 5 million copies a day at its peak in the mid-1960s. The Mirror was an influential model for German tabloid Bild , which was founded in 1952 and became Europe's biggest-selling newspaper. In 1955, the Mirror and its stablemate the Sunday Pictorial (later to become the Sunday Mirror ) began printing a northern edition in Manchester . In 1957 it introduced
5232-578: The Christ , a biblical drama that was both financially successful and highly controversial. He received further critical notice for his directorial work of the action-adventure film Apocalypto (2006), which is set in Mesoamerica during the early 16th century. After several legal issues and controversial statements leaked to the public, Gibson's popularity in Hollywood declined, affecting his careers in acting and directing. His career began seeing
5341-578: The Christ , focusing on the resurrection of Jesus . In early November 2016, Gibson revealed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that the sequel's title will be The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection . He also stated that the project could "probably be three years off" because "it's a big subject". In January 2023, it was reported that the sequel will begin filming later that year. In November 2016, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz named Gibson as "the pre-eminent religious filmmaker in
5450-547: The Code, and were sacked before the inquiry. In 2004, further enquiry by the Department of Trade and Industry cleared Morgan from any charges. On 7 December 2005 Bhoyrul and Hipwell were convicted of conspiracy to breach the Financial Services Act. During the trial it emerged that Morgan had bought £67,000 worth of Viglen shares, emptying his bank account and investing under his wife's name too. In 2002,
5559-473: The Conservative policy of privatisation, but its decision to be up-front about tax increases was seen as a key factor in its failure to win. By the time of the 1997 UK general election , support for the Labour Party, by then led by Tony Blair , in the opinion polls had exceeded that of support for the Conservative government led by John Major since late 1992, whose reduced popularity largely blamed on
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#17327660254725668-442: The Maccabees because he "hates Jews", and cited a series of private incidents during which he allegedly heard Gibson express extremely racist views. Although written as a private letter, it was subsequently published on a film industry website. In response, Gibson stated that he still intends to make the film, but will not base it upon Eszterhas's script, which he called substandard. Eszterhas then claimed his son had secretly recorded
5777-519: The Palace'), 2006 and 2007 (both Stephen Moyes). The Mirror won "Team of the Year" in 2001 ('Railtrack'), 2002 ('War on the World: World against Terrorism'), 2003 ('Soham'), and 2006 ('London bombings'); and "Front Page of the Year" in 2007. The Mirror also won the "Cudlipp Award" in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2010. Mel Gibson Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson AO (born January 3, 1956 )
5886-500: The Tory government was now led by John Major . The election was won by the Conservatives, although Labour managed to significantly cut the Tory majority to 21 seats compared to the triple-digit figure of the previous two elections, which led to a difficult term for Major. The outcome of this election had been far less predictable than any of the previous three elections, as opinion polls over the previous three years had shown both parties in
5995-826: The United States alone. Gibson's filmography includes television series, feature films, television films, and animated films . Gibson got his breakthrough role as the leather-clad post-apocalyptic survivor in George Miller 's Mad Max . The independently financed blockbuster helped to make him an international star. In the United States, the actors' Australian accents were dubbed with American accents. The original film spawned two sequels: Mad Max 2 (known in North America as The Road Warrior ) and Mad Max 3 (known in North America as Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome ). A fourth movie, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015),
6104-537: The United States". In May 2018, it was announced that Gibson would be directing a WWII film titled Destroyer . Destroyer , similar to Hacksaw Ridge , will also deal with the Battle of Okinawa in the Pacific Theater, although from a different front. It will be based on the heroic story of the crew belonging to USS Laffey (DD-724) , who defended their ship from 22 kamikaze attacks. In September 2018, it
6213-458: The award for Best Actor in a Leading Role from the Australian Film Institute . Gibson played a naïve but ambitious journalist opposite Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hunt in Peter Weir 's atmospheric 1982 film The Year of Living Dangerously , based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Koch . The movie was both a critical and commercial success, and the upcoming Australian actor
6322-522: The chair and within a year, circulation rose to 5.3 million. Edwards remained for a record 13 years, and ended as deputy chairman of Mirror Group in 1985. By the end of his time in charge Edwards oversaw the introduction of colour to the paper (in 1988). The paper also introduced the Sunday Mirror Magazine which had an extra-large format and was printed on glossy paper. It had the best of big name stories, star photographs, money-saving offers and glittering prizes for competition winners. Today's incarnation of
6431-437: The combined title with immediate effect. In 2018, Reach plc acquired the Northern & Shell titles, including the Daily Express, which led to a number of editor moves across the stable. Lloyd Embley was then promoted to editor-in-chief across the entire group, and Alison Phillips (previously deputy editor-in-chief for the Trinity Mirror titles) was appointed editor of the Daily Mirror. The Mirror has consistently supported
6540-475: The craft of filmmaking and influencing him as a director. As a director, Gibson sometimes breaks the tension on set by having his actors perform serious scenes wearing a red clown nose. Helena Bonham Carter said of him, "He has a very basic sense of humor. It's a bit lavatorial and not very sophisticated." Gibson inserted a single frame of himself smoking a cigarette into the 2005 teaser trailer of Apocalypto . Gibson's screen acting career began in 1976, with
6649-412: The earliest stories covered by the newly named paper was the Profumo affair , which was catastrophic for the government of the day. While frontbenchers involved in sleaze scandals exposed in the British press have often led to reshuffles, contemporary accounts and later research has credited the coverage, associating the involved young socialite to a Russian senior attaché, for triggering the replacement of
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#17327660254726758-409: The failings of Black Wednesday in September of that year and it had failed to recover popularity in spite of a strong economic recovery and fall in unemployment. A reinvented New Labour had further improved its credibility under Blair by promising traditional Labour essentials including more funding for healthcare and education but also promising not to increase income tax and ending its commitment to
6867-550: The film Mad Max (1979). He was paid $ 9000 for this role. Shortly after making the film he did a season with the South Australian Theatre Company . During this period he shared a $ 30 a week apartment in Adelaide with his future wife Robyn Moore. After Mad Max , Gibson also played a mentally slow youth in the film Tim (also 1979). During this period Gibson also appeared in Australian television series guest roles. He appeared in serial The Sullivans as naval lieutenant Ray Henderson, in police procedural Cop Shop , and in
6976-440: The film genre of the historical epic; the Battle of Stirling Bridge sequence is considered by critics to be one of the all-time best-directed battle scenes. The film's depiction of the Prince of Wales as an effeminate homosexual caused the film to be attacked by Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which was especially enraged by a scene in which King Edward I murders his son's male lover by throwing him out of
7085-413: The film's antagonist . He has further praised Anthony Hopkins 's performance as Lieutenant William Bligh as the best aspect of the film. Gibson moved into more mainstream commercial filmmaking with the popular action comedy film series Lethal Weapon , which began with the 1987 original. In the films he played LAPD Detective Martin Riggs , a recently widowed Vietnam veteran with a death wish and
7194-412: The following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the Sunday Mirror . Unlike other major British tabloids such as The Sun and the Daily Mail , the Mirror has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail , which incorporate certain stories from the Mirror that are of Scottish significance. Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it
7303-487: The highest level since January 2000. The paper launched as the Sunday Pictorial on 14 March 1915. Lord Rothermere – who owned the paper – introduced the Sunday Pictorial to the British public with the idea of striking a balance between socially responsible reporting of great issues of the day and sheer entertainment. Although the newspaper has gone through many refinements in its near 100-year history those original core values are still in place today. Ever since 1915,
7412-402: The late 1930s the Mirror was transformed from a conservative, middle class newspaper into a left-wing paper for the working class. Partly on the advice of the American advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, the Mirror became the first British paper to adopt the appearance of the New York tabloids. The headlines became bigger, the stories shorter and the illustrations more abundant. By 1939,
7521-768: The lead role of director S. Craig Zahler 's police brutality-themed film Dragged Across Concrete , released in 2018. He then starred in The Professor and the Madman – he and the director both disowned the film. After his success in Hollywood with the Lethal Weapon series, Gibson began to move into producing and directing. With partner Bruce Davey , Gibson formed Icon Productions in 1989 in order to make Hamlet . In addition to producing or co-producing many of Gibson's own star vehicles, Icon has turned out many other small films, ranging from Immortal Beloved to An Ideal Husband . Gibson has taken supporting roles in some of these films, such as The Million Dollar Hotel and The Singing Detective . Gibson has also produced
7630-460: The lead, although any Labour lead in the polls had been relatively narrow since the Conservative government's change of leader from Thatcher to Major in November 1990, in spite of the onset of the early 1990s recession which had pushed unemployment up again after several years of decline. Labour's credibility was helped by plans including extra National Health Service (NHS) funding and moving away from firm commitments on re-nationalisation to reverse
7739-425: The magazine is Notebook . In 1992 the Sunday Mirror was criticised and challenged by attorneys of Mel Gibson for reporting what was said in confidential Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. In 2001 Tina Weaver was appointed editor of the Sunday Mirror , a position she held for 11 years until her sacking. Since its launch the paper has had 25 editors in total including current editor-in-chief Lloyd Embley. In 2012
7848-787: The movie centers on the catastrophic Australian offensive known as the Battle of the Nek . Peter Weir cast Gibson in the role of Frank Dunne, an Irish-Australian drifter with an intense cynicism about fighting for the British Empire . Newcomer Mark Lee was recruited to play the idealistic Archy Hamilton after participating in a photo session for the director. Gibson later recalled: I'd auditioned for an earlier film and he told me right up front, "I'm not going to cast you for this part. You're not old enough. But thanks for coming in, I just wanted to meet you." He told me he wanted me for Gallipoli
7957-486: The nationalisation of leading industries. The Daily Mirror urged its readers that their country needed Blair, and to vote Labour. The 1997 election produced a Labour landslide that ended the party's 18-year exile from power, followed by two further wins in the 2001 and 2005 UK general elections . On 4 May 2010, the newspaper printed a picture of Conservative leader David Cameron with a giant red cross through his face. The headline read "How to stop him" in reference to
8066-470: The paper has continually published the best and most revealing pictures of the famous and the infamous, and reported on major national and international events. The first editor of the Sunday Pictorial , or the Sunday Pic as it was commonly known, was F.R Sanderson. His launch edition led with three stories on the front page, two of which reported from the front line of the war: "THE TASK OF THE RED CROSS" and "ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF A BIG GUN". From day one
8175-492: The paper supported Herbert Morrison, who co-ordinated Labour's campaign, and recruited his former antagonist Philip Zec to reproduce, on the front page, a popular VE Day cartoon on the morning of the election, suggesting that Labour were the only party who could maintain peace in post-war Britain. By the late 1940s, it was selling 4.5 million copies a day, outstripping the Express ; for some 30 years afterwards, it dominated
8284-552: The paper was a huge success and within six months of launch the Sunday Pictorial was selling more than one million copies. One of the reasons for this early success was due to a series of articles written by Winston Churchill . In 1915, Churchill, disillusioned with government, resigned from the Cabinet . The articles he then wrote for the Sunday Pictorial attracted such high levels of interest that sales lifted by 400,000 copies every time his stories appeared. A further reason for
8393-473: The paper's early life started with a flourish, by the mid-1930s its success began to flounder. That, however, all changed when the editorship was given to 24-year-old Hugh Cudlipp in 1937. Within three years of taking over he saw the circulation of the paper rise to more than 1,700,000 by the time he went to fight in World War II in 1940. On resuming the editorship in 1946, Cudlipp successfully developed
8502-417: The paper's success was its political influence. As a popular paper that always spoke its mind, the Sunday Pictorial struck a chord with millions. Sport was also a key ingredient of the Sunday Pictorial' s success. Football, even then, made it onto the front pages, and for many of the same reasons it does today: "WEMBLEY STADIUM STORMED BY EXCITED CUP FINAL CROWDS" dominates a front page from 1923. Although
8611-406: The party as the "Fib Dems" or "Lib Dumbs". The Daily Mirror endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 U.S. presidential election . Also in 2016, the newspaper asked for Jeremy Corbyn 's resignation "for the good of the party and of the country." Despite this critical position, the Daily Mirror endorsed the Labour Party in the 2017 UK general election . For
8720-587: The pilot episode of prison serial Punishment which was produced in 1980, screened 1981. Gibson joined the cast of the World War II action film Attack Force Z , which was not released until 1982 when Gibson had become a bigger star. Director Peter Weir cast Gibson as one of the leads in the World War I drama Gallipoli (1981), which earned Gibson another Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute . Gallipoli also helped to earn Gibson
8829-505: The project was indefinitely postponed because of scheduling conflicts. Gibson was scheduled to direct Robert Downey Jr. in a Los Angeles stage production of Hamlet in January 2001, but Downey's drug relapse ended the project. In 2002, while promoting We Were Soldiers and Signs to the press, Gibson mentioned that he was planning to pare back on acting and return to directing. In September 2002, Gibson announced that he would direct
8938-507: The project. In a 2012 interview, Gibson announced that the project, which he has titled Berserker , was still moving forward. In 2011, it was announced that Gibson had commissioned a screenplay from Joe Eszterhas about the Maccabees . The film is to be distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures . The announcement generated significant controversy. In April 2012, Eszterhas wrote a letter to Gibson accusing him of sabotaging their film about
9047-480: The publication was selling 1.4 million copies a day. In 1937, Hugh McClelland introduced his wild Western comic strip Beelzebub Jones in the Daily Mirror . After taking over as cartoon chief at the Mirror in 1945, he dropped Beelzebub Jones and moved on to a variety of new strips. During the Second World War the Mirror positioned itself as the paper of the ordinary soldier and civilian, and
9156-479: The reputation of a serious, versatile actor and gained him the Hollywood agent Ed Limato . The sequel Mad Max 2 (1982) was his first hit in America, where it was released as The Road Warrior . Gibson again received positive notices for his role in Peter Weir 's romantic thriller The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Following a one-year hiatus from film acting after the birth of his twin sons, Gibson took on
9265-735: The role of Fletcher Christian in The Bounty (1984). Gibson earned his first million dollar salary for playing Max Rockatansky for the third time, in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). Gibson's first American film was Mark Rydell 's drama The River (1984), in which he and Sissy Spacek played struggling Tennessee farmers. Gibson then starred in the Gothic romance Mrs. Soffel (also 1984) for Australian director Gillian Armstrong . He and Matthew Modine played condemned convict brothers opposite Diane Keaton as
9374-458: The role of Biff Loman in a 1982 production of Death of a Salesman in Sydney. Gibson's most recent theatrical performance, opposite Sissy Spacek , was the 1993 production of Love Letters by A. R. Gurney , in Telluride , Colorado. While a student at NIDA , Gibson made his film debut in the 1977 film Summer City , for which he was paid $ 400. Gibson then played the title character in
9483-406: The role of Guy Hamilton. "I didn't necessarily see my role as a great challenge. My character was, like the film suggests, a puppet. And I went with that. It wasn't some star thing, even though they advertised it that way." Gibson saw some similarities between himself and the character of Guy. "He's not a silver-tongued devil. He's kind of immature and he has some rough edges and I guess you could say
9592-553: The same for me." Gibson followed the footsteps of Errol Flynn , Clark Gable , and Marlon Brando by starring as Fletcher Christian in a cinematic retelling of the Mutiny on the Bounty . The resulting 1984 film The Bounty is considered to be the most historically accurate version. However, Gibson has expressed a belief that the film's revisionism did not go far enough. He has stated that his character should have been portrayed as
9701-500: The second-largest morning newspaper. Alfred Harmsworth sold the newspaper to his brother Harold Harmsworth (from 1914 Lord Rothermere) in 1913. In 1917, the price was increased to one penny. Circulation continued to grow: in 1919, some issues sold more than a million copies a day, making it the largest daily picture paper. In 1924 the newspaper sponsored the 1924 Women's Olympiad held at Stamford Bridge in London. Lord Rothermere
9810-495: The sixth of 11 children, and the second son of Hutton Gibson , a writer, and Irish-born Anne Patricia (née Reilly, died 1990). Gibson's paternal grandmother was opera contralto Eva Mylott (1875–1920), who was born in Australia to Irish parents, while his paternal grandfather, John Hutton Gibson, was a millionaire tobacco businessman from the Southern United States . One of Gibson's younger brothers, Donal ,
9919-473: The slogan "You know he's right, chuck her out." By this stage, unemployment was falling and inflation had remained low for several years. As a result, the Tories were re-elected for a third successive term, although Labour did cut the Tory majority slightly. For the 1992 UK general election , the Daily Mirror continued to support Labour, still led by Neil Kinnock . By this stage, Thatcher had stepped down and
10028-521: The success of the Falklands conflict a year earlier. However, the Conservatives were re-elected and Labour suffered its worst postwar general election result, only narrowly bettering the SDP–Liberal Alliance in terms of votes whilst winning considerably more seats. At the 1987 UK general election , the Daily Mirror remained loyal to Labour, led by Neil Kinnock , and urged its readers with
10137-474: The supplement, which ran on Wednesdays and Fridays, was to deal with international affairs, politics, industry, science, the arts and business". The British Journalism Review said in 2002 that "Mirrorscope" was "a game attempt to provide serious analysis in the rough and tumble of the tabloids". It failed to attract significant numbers of new readers, and the pull-out section was abandoned, its final issue appearing on 27 August 1974. In 1978, The Sun overtook
10246-428: The topic of trafficking of children . According to Robert Downey Jr. , studio executives encouraged Gibson in 1989 to try directing, an idea he rebuffed at the time. Gibson made his directorial debut in 1993 with The Man Without a Face , followed two years later by Braveheart , which earned Gibson the Academy Award for Best Director . Gibson had long planned to direct a remake of Fahrenheit 451 , but in 1999
10355-619: The warden's wife who visits them to read the Bible. In 1985, after working on four films in a row, Gibson took almost two years off at his Australian cattle station . He returned to play the role of Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon (1987), a film which helped to cement his status as a Hollywood "leading man". Gibson's next film was Robert Towne 's Tequila Sunrise (1988), followed by Lethal Weapon 2 (1989). Gibson next starred in three films back-to-back, all released in 1990: Bird on
10464-420: Was The Economist , although it was a hoax. Richard Wallace became editor in 2004. On 30 May 2012, Trinity Mirror announced the merger of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror into a single seven-day-a-week title. Richard Wallace and Tina Weaver, the respective editors of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror , were simultaneously dismissed and Lloyd Embley , editor of The People , appointed as editor of
10573-505: Was 12 years old. He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art , where he starred opposite Judy Davis in a production of Romeo and Juliet . During the 1980s, he founded Icon Entertainment , a production company, which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called "an alternative to the studio system". Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the World War I drama Gallipoli (1981), which earned Gibson
10682-443: Was a big guy. He was developing the screenplay and he got pretty far along with it. And he said to me one day, 'Listen kid, if I kick the bucket you will do it.' And I said: 'Shut up.' But he did indeed pass away. But he did ask me to do it and at the time I didn't say anything. He said it to his wife and to the studio and the producer. So I will be directing the fifth one" Gibson said. In June 2024, Gibson confirmed in an interview with
10791-527: Was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler , and directed the Mirror ' s editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s. On Monday, 22 January 1934 the Daily Mirror ran the headline "Give the Blackshirts a helping hand" urging readers to join Sir Oswald Mosley 's British Union of Fascists , and giving the address to which to send membership applications. By the mid-1930s,
10900-478: Was announced that Gibson would direct and co-write a remake of the 1969 film, The Wild Bunch . In May 2019, Deadline reported that Gibson was courting Michael Fassbender , Jamie Foxx , and Peter Dinklage to star in the project; that Jerry Bruckheimer will produce the film, and Warner Bros. will finance and release the project. In 2021, after the death of Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner , Gibson has stated that he will direct, and also star, in
11009-438: Was cast alongside experienced Shakespearean actors Ian Holm , Alan Bates , and Paul Scofield . He compared working with Scofield to being "thrown into the ring with Mike Tyson ". Scofield said of Gibson "Not the sort of actor you'd think would make an ideal Hamlet, but he had enormous integrity and intelligence." In 1995, Gibson directed, produced, and starred in Braveheart , a biographical film of Sir William Wallace ,
11118-487: Was converted into a working-class newspaper after 1934, in order to reach a larger audience. It was founded by Alfred Harmsworth , who sold it to his brother Harold Harmsworth (from 1914 Lord Rothermere) in 1913. In 1963 a restructuring of the media interests of the Harmsworth family led to the Mirror becoming a part of International Publishing Corporation . During the mid-1960s, daily sales exceeded 5 million copies,
11227-412: Was critical of the political leadership and the established parties. At one stage, the paper was threatened with closure following the publication of a Philip Zec cartoon (captioned by William Connor ), which was misinterpreted by Winston Churchill and Herbert Morrison . In the 1945 UK general election , the paper strongly supported the Labour Party in its eventual landslide victory. In doing so,
11336-667: Was educated by members of the Congregation of Christian Brothers at St Leo's Catholic College in Wahroonga , New South Wales . Gibson gained very favorable notices from film critics when he first entered the cinematic scene, as well as comparisons to several classic movie stars. In 1982, Vincent Canby wrote that "Mr. Gibson recalls the young Steve McQueen ... I can't define 'star quality,' but whatever it is, Mr. Gibson has it." Gibson has also been likened to "a combination Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart ." Gibson's roles in
11445-425: Was heavily marketed by MGM studio. In his review of the film, Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "If this film doesn't make an international star of Mr. Gibson, then nothing will. He possesses both the necessary talent and the screen presence." According to John Hiscock of The Daily Telegraph , the film did, indeed, establish Gibson as an international talent. Gibson was initially reluctant to accept
11554-479: Was in spite of its falling popularity over the previous few months which had been partly as a result of what was labelled by the Daily Mail the " Winter of Discontent ", where the country was crippled by numerous public sector strikes. By the time of the 1983 UK general election , Labour support was at a postwar low, partly due to the strong challenge by the recently formed SDP–Liberal Alliance . Despite this,
11663-642: Was made public, Gibson was dropped from the talent agency of William Morris Endeavor . Gibson was lined up for a small role in The Hangover Part II but he was removed from the film after the cast and crew objected to his involvement. Gibson also played two villains: Luther Voz in Machete Kills in 2013, opposite Danny Trejo , and Conrad Stonebanks in The Expendables 3 opposite Sylvester Stallone in 2014. Gibson appeared in
11772-558: Was made with Tom Hardy in the title role. The 1981 Peter Weir film Gallipoli is about a group of young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I . They are sent to invade the Ottoman Empire , where they take part in the 1915 Gallipoli campaign . During the course of the movie, the young men slowly lose their innocence about the war. The climax of
11881-509: Was paid a record salary of $ 25 million to appear in The Patriot (2000). It grossed over $ 100 million, as did two other films he featured in that year, Chicken Run and What Women Want . In 2002, Gibson appeared in the Vietnam War drama We Were Soldiers and M. Night Shyamalan 's Signs , which became the highest-grossing film of Gibson's acting career. While promoting Signs , Gibson said that he no longer wanted to be
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