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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has taken global rights, excluding China, Australia and New Zealand, to Aussie family feature Go Karts. Pic comes from director Owen Trevor, most noted for helming multiple episodes of UK series Top Gear, and production outfit See Pictures, which has credits including the Guy Pearce and Kylie…

Village Roadshow, the Australian media giant that has distribution, exhibition, studio and theme parks wings, has received a takeover bid worth north of $500 million. The company released a statement Thursday saying that Pacific Equity Partners, a Sydney-based private equity firm, had made an offer of $2.68 (AUD$3.90)…

UPDATED, 11:59 AM: With $788.1M worldwide, Warner Bros./Village Roadshow/Bron Studio’s Joker has just passed Fox’s Deadpool to become the highest grossing R-rated movie of all-time. That Marvel pic ended its run with $783M. By the end of the weekend, it’s expected that Joker‘s global tally will stand at $825M. At…

No huge shocker here, but Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Bron Studios’ Joker is going to churn a profit on its way to becoming the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time. How much profit, you ask? Well, we’ll actually tell you. Our sources say the Joaquin Phoenix pic is poised to make at least $464 million after…

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…