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EXCLUSIVE: Village Roadshow is teaming with the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts to develop a film based on New York Times bestselling-author Don Yaeger's Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South as a USC Original Film, a new initiative designed to support emerging and diverse…

UPDATED with latest: Looks like Warner Bros. got its way. The Matrix Resurrections co-producer Village Roadshow Films has agreed to arbitrate its claims alleging Warner Bros.’ decision to release the film simultaneously on HBO Max and in theaters was a breach of contract. Lawyers for Village Roadshow filed papers on…

A follow-up to the $130M-plus grossing movie Law Abiding Citizen is happening with producer Lucas Foster and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer returning, as well as Gerard Butler and his G-Base partner Alan Siegel reprising their roles as producers. The storyline is being kept secrets. The first movie starred Butler and Jamie…

Damon Wayans (Fox’s Lethal Weapon) and Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) have signed on to star alongside Hailey Kilgore, David Iacono and Jeremie Harris in the noir thriller Cinnamon, which will debut exclusively on Fox’s free streaming service, Tubi, later this year. The film currently in production in Atlanta follows a…

EXCLUSIVE: Indonesian director Joko Anwar (Impetigore) is gearing up to direct Fritzchen, an adaptation of the classic short story by Charles Beaumont that is in development at Village Roadshow. While the story published in Orbit magazine in 1953 (and later in Beaumont’s anthology Yonder) examines a boy’s encounter…

EXCLUSIVE: (UPDATED with Village Roadshow attorney’s statement) Warner Bros is sick and tired of having streaming sand kicked in its face. As Village Roadshow heads back to the court docket today to further push ASAP on the breach of contract lawsuit the longtime financier of tentpole flicks filed last week against…

Warner Bros. Pictures today unveiled a new trailer for The Matrix Resurrections, the fourth film in the iconic sci-fi franchise, which is set for release in theaters and on HBO Max on December 22. Resurrections comes 18 years after the release of sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, and 22 years…

Former NBA star Kevin Garnett's Content Cartel Studios has struck a first-look deal with Village Roadshow Entertainment, and the companies have set a feature documentary about Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain as their first project. The first-look development arrangement covers scripted and unscripted projects across…

Village Roadshow Pictures chairman and CEO Bruce Berman is exiting after 24 years at the production finance studio. What franchises and big event pics hasn’t Berman been involved with? During his ride with VRP he’s made several Warner Bros tentpoles including The Matrix franchise, multi-Oscar winner Mad Max: Fury Road…

EXCLUSIVE: Village Roadshow Pictures has inked a multi-year first-look deal with David S. Goyer's Phantom Four Films to source, develop and produce feature films with Phantom Four’s President of Production, Keith Levine, overseeing development. Levine also will produce alongside Goyer. As part of the deal, Phantom…

EXCLUSIVE: The Matrix and Joker co-producer Village Roadshow Pictures is teaming with Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho (The Batman) and XYZ Films (Mandy) for the English-language remake of recently-released Russian sci-fi-thriller Sputnik. Set in the Soviet Union in the 1980s during the Cold War, the film follows a young…

Warner Bros has called time on its long-lasting partnership with Australian company Village Roadshow after four decades of the latter distributing the studio's films in the territory. Roadshow made an announcement to the Australian stock exchange today noting the arrangement would come to a close at the end of this…