Mel Gibson's new movie, Apocalypto, opens on December 8. It has no stars and is performed in a Mayan dialect. So its distributor, Walt Disney Company, faces quite a marketing challenge.

Associated Press"Apocalypto" tells the story of the Mayan people — who built a civilization in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — and is in a Mayan language. Gibson employed Mayans for the film ...

Shot in lush landscapes of Central America, "Apocalypto" shows us a fresh, vital, often beautiful and often terrifying world. And Gibson introduces us to a fearless set of performers who inhabit ...

Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" is "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" meets "Tarzan and the Mermaids" meets "The Naked Prey" meets "The Perils of Pauline" meets the Italian cannibal movie ...

"Apocalypto," a Disney release set in the Mayan civilization and told in a Mayan language, opened with $14.2 million, estimates Sunday showed.

Some rights groups say the army tried to wipe out the Maya. Lucio Yaxon, a 23-year-old Mayan human rights activist, said Apocalypto's heart-pounding trailer was unrealistic.

Apocalypto is not perfect. It’s also not complete (in fact, some of the finished effects will greatly improve some of the Mayan city scenes).

MASTERS: Dentler did say Apocalypto was a bit long at more than two hours. But it's a work-in-progress and Gibson plans to make trims.

"Apocalypto" offers a stunning portrait of the Mayan civilization shortly before the 16th-century invasions of the conquistadores. The film begins by introducing Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), a young ...

"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 ...