While Mel Gibson’s new movie ‘The Beaver’ was premiering at SXSW in Austin, Texas, Mel was back in El Segundo being booked by police on criminal battery charges.

Gibson and his lawyer arrived at the El Segundo Police Department around 9:30 p.m., and Gibson was fingerprinted and posed for a mugshot (above), Sergeant Dean Howard tells The Hollywood Reporter.

“He was here for a very short time,” Howard says of the less-than-30-minute visit. “He was very pleasant. This is just an old case that the judge wanted him to get fingerprinted for. It isn’t anything new. We did it real quick and he was out.”

Gibson was officially charged last Friday with misdemeanor battery for allegedly assaulting his former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva (with whom he has a 1-year-old daughter, Lucia) in January 2010. He is expected to strike a plea deal that will keep him out of jail. TMZ.com reports that Judge Stephanie Sautner gave Gibson one week from his sentencing to get his mugshot and fingerprints taken.

Gibson was brought to the LAX-area police station instead of his local Malibu one because El Segundo is the L.A. County booking system, Howard said.

Gibson has a supporter in Beaver director, Jodie Foster, who tells the new issue of THR, “I knew the minute I met him, I would love him for the rest of my life.”

I wonder what affect all this will have on his new movie. I know I’m not dying to see it…

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Two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster directs and co-stars with two-time Academy Award winner Mel Gibson in The Beaver – an emotional story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life.

Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black was once a successful toy executive and family man who now suffers from depression. No matter what he tries, Walter can’t seem to get himself back on track… until a beaver hand puppet enters his life.

I wonder what will happen with this movie. It doesn’t actually look all that bad – but I’m wondering if all that’s happened with Mel this year will sink the film.

What do you think? Will you see the movie – no matter what?

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They all look gorgeous! I can’t decide who looks the best!

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