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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Joker and The Matrix co-producer Village Roadshow Pictures has optioned and is looking to fast-track The Prize, a spec feature written by Buried and Greenland scribe Chris Sparling with Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales co-helmer Espen Sandberg aboard to direct. The conspiracy thriller…

A group of production companies, distributors, sales agents and completion bond guarantors have created a new tasks force to push for government funding and support to independent production threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Coalition for Independent Content Production (ACICP) said its aim is to help…

Australian theme park and movie theater operator Village Roadshow said Monday it’s agreed to exclusive takeover talks with BGH Capital after the private equity firm offered to buy it for $465 million – or about $2.40 a share – its second offer, and a lower one. The company said BGH will have four weeks to review its…

Warner Bros./Village Roadshow’s The Matrix 4 is looking to return to production in Berlin, Germany in early July. This as news has hit tonight that the cast has signed eight-week extensions to keep the actors on hold until July 6, Deadline has confirmed. Production began back in February on the Lana Wachowski-directed…

EXCLUSIVE: Village Roadshow Pictures has optioned Stephen King's psychological horror novel, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, which will be adapted for the screen by Christy Hall, the co-creator and executive producer of the Netflix series, I Am Not Okay With This. Jon Berg of Stampede Ventures is producing the project…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Village Roadshow Pictures has acquired rights to adapt the upcoming Emma Brodie novel Songs In Ursa Major into a feature film. The author will write the script and Berlanti Productions’ Sarah Schechter and Greg Berlanti will produce. The book will be published in summer 2021 by…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…