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How do you follow up the most successful independent movie ever? You do whatever you want. Emerging from the jungles of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico, Mel Gibson gave his first public explanation of ...

Mel Gibson intends to shoot Apocalypto entirely in an ancient Mayan language. The thriller, set in an ancient Mayan settlement before the European conquest of Central America, is being filmed near ...

Mel Gibson got many things wrong in his 2006 movie "Apocalypto," but it did turn the world's attention to the Mayan people who still live on Mexico's Yucatan Penin-sula, a Montana State ...