Gladden Entertainment Corporation was a film company founded by former
United Artists executive David Begelman, which supplanted
Sherwood Productions, the company of which he was head of production. Begelman named the company after his wife
Gladys. Gladden was overshadowed by Begelman's fraudulent schemes and unpaid taxes that would haunt him until he committed suicide in 1995. In February 1994, the founder left Gladden Entertainment, which would go bankrupt that April, and focused on a company he founded months earlier called Gladden Productions, but no movies ever came out of that new company. All films would eventually fall under control of
Epic Productions, which would incorporate the Sherwood films into its Zeta library and the Gladden films into its Alpha library. Today, the company's films along with the pre-1996
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment library are owned by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios through
Orion Pictures.
