Village Roadshow Pictures

Village Roadshow Pictures is an Australian motion picture production company. It is a division of Village Roadshow, an Australian entertainment company. It makes most of its films for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Films

Village Roadshow has been producing Australian films since the 1970s, and expanded into international film production in the late-1990s. A co-production agreement between VRP and Warner Bros. began in 1998, and has been a major success, with such films as:

• Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)
• Practical Magic (1998)
• Analyze This (1999)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Deep Blue Sea (1999)
• Three Kings (1999)
• Three to Tango (1999)
• Gossip (2000)
• Space Cowboys (2000)
• Red Planet (2000)
• Miss Congeniality (2000)
• Valentine (2001)
• See Spot Run (2001)
• Exit Wounds (2001)
• Swordfish (2001)
• Cats & Dogs (2001)
• Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
• Training Day (2001)
• Ocean's Eleven (2001)
• The Majestic (2001)
• Queen of the Damned (2002)
• Showtime (2002)
• Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
• The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
• Ghost Ship (2002)
• Analyze That (2002)
• Two Weeks Notice (2002)
• Dreamcatcher (2002)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
• Mystic River (2003)
• Breach of Contact (2003)
• Torque (2004)
• Taking Lives (2004)
• Catwoman (2004)
• Ocean's Twelve (2004)
• Constantine (2005)
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)
• House of Wax (2005)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
• Rumor Has It (2005)
• Firewall (2006)
• The Lake House (2006)
• Happy Feet (2006)
• Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
• Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
• Music and Lyrics (2007)
• License to Wed (2007)
• No Reservations (2007)
• Lucky You (2007)
• The Invasion (2007)
• The Brave One (2007)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• Speed Racer (2008)
• Get Smart (2008)
• Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
• Gran Torino (2008)
• Yes Man (2008)
• Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
• Edge of Darkness (2010)
• Guardians of Ga'Hoole (2010)
• The Factory (2011)
• Happy Feet 2 (2011)

VRP has also co-produced some movies with Paramount Pictures, the most notable being Zoolander and Down to Earth, and through a joint venture with Hoyts, Three to Tango, and Music and Lyrics (with Warner Bros.), as well as A Walk on the Moon (through Miramax Films), Disturbing Behavior (with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Saving Silverman (through Columbia Pictures), Don't Say a Word (through 20th Century Fox), American Psycho (through Lionsgate), Gossip (through Universal Pictures), Rogue (through Dimension Films) as well as Bullet (film) (with New Line Cinema) and Christmas Crackin (with Universal Pictures and Dreamworks SKG).

Outside the United States, the company has had some success, with Greek films A Touch of Spice and Alter Ego, and within the Australian market, with films such as Bad Eggs, Crackerjack and Fat Pizza.

External links

• Village Roadshow Pictures
• Village Roadshow Pictures at the Internet Movie Database