I keep thinking Mel Gibson is going to make a big comeback. No matter how many DUI fines he might have paid, I don’t think he needs to work for the money. He’s got six kids, probably busy with them, and his wife. Actually, he seems to have a pretty good life, maybe he’ll just go on living it and be happy.

But while he’s cheerfully on holiday, his offices in Sydney are closing. Without having produced a single film.

Six years ago, the Hollywood star and his producing partner, Bruce Davey, announced they were forming a production company with the leading talent agency Shanahan Management, which represents such A-listers as Nicole Kidman, Toni Collette and Geoffrey Rush.

Icon Shanahan Productions was launched at the same time as a new distribution operation, and there were high hopes that it could produce a new generation of Australian films for international audiences.

But the company has now closed its Sydney office – and its creative director, Sally Chesher, has departed – without a single Icon Shanahan film being made.

The closest it came was the part-financing of the drama The Black Balloon, by Icon’s distribution and sales agency arms.

Sydney Morning Herald

And I thought with his recent thumbs up from the Los Angeles judicial system he might be getting ready for big things. Even at 51, he still knows how to play the cool kids games. While on holiday this week, he stopped off and did his bit for rainforests. Petra Group was signing an agreement for sponsorship to conserve rainforests. Environmentalism is in right now.

Gibson, who last directed Apocalypto, which was set in an ancient Mayan jungle settlement, is on a two-week vacation in Malaysia. He was at the ceremony to lend his support to Petra Group’s participation in the research programme on how to conserve the rainforest.

Malaysia Star

This is why I think Mel Gibson’s life must be pretty good. Even when offices that he worked at establishing are closing down, and public attention has again be drawn to that embarrassing incident, he’s still able to go on holiday. I’d be sitting at home in a bathrobe crying, and not washing my hair.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Header image is from Mel Gibson’s freakout in March during a talk at Cal State when a Mayan scholar asked him if he realized how racist and inaccurate Apocalypto was. Thanks to TMZ.