Film Distribution

The Company commenced distributing films under the Roadshow brand in 1970 and in August 2007 Roadshow Films became a wholly owned subsidiary of Village Roadshow. Roadshow Films distributes theatrical movies to cinema, video, DVD, Pay Television and free to air television in Australia and New Zealand. In addition to holding the exclusive distribution rights for movies produced by Village Roadshow Pictures, Roadshow Films has contracts to distribute movies from Warner Bros., The Weinstein Company and other independent production houses. Roadshow Films has also been a strong supporter of the Australian film industry, releasing movies such as Bad Eggs, Crackerjack, Wolf Creek, Jindabyne, Boytown, 2:37, Bran Nue Day and Mao’s Last Dancer.

Roadshow Entertainment is the leading independent distributor of DVDs to both retail and rental chains. The DVD relationships with the BBC, the ABC, Channel Nine and Fremantle Media each continue to be highly valued with positive results from their leading brands which include Top Gear, Dr Who, The Wiggles, Underbelly - A Tale of Two Cities, Grand Designs and Masterchef.

Roadshow Music has been actively involved in licensing, promoting and marketing Australian recording artists since its inception in 1994.  It has had great success with artists such as Savage Garden, The Butterfly Effect, Axle Whitehead, Hamish and Andy and Jade MacRae.

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For pay TV, Roadshow Television teamed up with Warner Bros, Disney, and MGM to create The Movie Network - three movie channels distributed on the Optus and Austar Pay TV platforms and available on Foxtel. The channels provide the latest first run features and classic re-runs from the partners' extensive movie libraries.

In addition, Roadshow Live in conjunction with the Dainty Corporation, is staging the highly acclaimed Hairspray musical, which opened in Melbourne on 2 October 2010.