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Todd Phillips’ DC movie Joker is poised to become the highest grossing R-rated U.S. release of all-time heading toward a potential $900M in global ticket sales. In its third weekend, the Warner Bros./Village Roadshow/Bron Studios’ release made $107M worldwide sending its overall total to $737.5M. The pic, which has…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Marvel Iron Fist actress Jessica Henwick is in talks for a lead role in Warner Bros./Village Roadshow’s Matrix 4, a part which is currently under wraps. Sources tell us that Henwick performed quite strongly during the audition process. There’s been buzz around town that Matrix 4 director and…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Village Roadshow Pictures has optioned New York Times-bestselling author Charles Pellegrino's environmental horror novel Dust, which Dan Berk and Robert Olsen will adapt for the screen. Published near the turn of the millennium in 1998, Dust is strangely prescient about the…

Village Roadshow Pictures has optioned David Grossman's 2017 Man Booker International Prize-winning novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar, which the studio plans to develop as a feature film. Village Roadshow will produce the project with Veritas Entertainment Group. The short novel, first published in Hebrew in 2014, then…

EXCLUSIVE: Village Roadshow and Valparaiso Pictures will partner on a film adaptation of Zoje Stage’s bestselling 2018 novel Baby Teeth from St. Martins Press. Screenwriter Nina Baker will adapt. The female-driven psychological horror project is described as The Bad Seed meets Gone Girl meets The Omen. In the book…

Village Roadshow Entertainment Group has taken film and TV rights to the bestselling video game Myst, with plans to expand the existing mythology to develop a multi-platform universe that would include film, scripted and unscripted TV content. Village Roadshow will develop and work alongside the game’s original…

Village Roadshow Entertainment Group said Wednesday it hired former MRC chief financial officer Louis Santor as chief operating officer and that it is launching a film and TV production division to be headed by Shannon Perry, the former Embassy Row exec who becomes SVP Reality and Production Services and will oversee…

Australian industry veteran Graham Burke is to retire as CEO of Village Roadshow at the end of this calendar year. Upon the appointment of a new CEO, Burke will remain on the VRL Board as a non-executive director, the company said today. The firm also said it will now “conduct a wide-ranging, global and domestic…

Village Roadshow Entertainment Group has hired Imperative Entertainment exec Jillian Apfelbaum as EVP Content. It’s one of the first moves made at VREG since the producer-financier appointed ex-Sony Pictures TV boss Steve Mosko its new CEO last month. Apfelbaum's focus will be to identify and develop feature film…

Village Roadshow Entertainment Group has named former Sony Pictures TV boss Steve Mosko as its CEO, as the production and financing company looks to further push into TV and streaming. Bruce Berman, currently Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO, will remain in his position and report to Mosko. As…

EXCLUSIVE: Industry veteran Peter Schlessel has been elected to the board of directors of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group. He joins as Ocean’s 8, Village Roadshow’s 100th film, just released to a franchise-topping domestic result and a strong early start overseas. Schlessel has had a traditional and…

4th UPDATE, Sunday AM: Warner Bros./Village Roadshow’s Ocean’s 8 is sailing in with a $41.5M opening, still the best debut for the franchise and a solid start for what will be a good piece of counter-programming in the event-filled marketplace. When it comes to gender-swapping an established franchise, it’s also safe…