Film Production and Music

VRL's Film Production and Music division is held via its 40.4% equity accounted investment in Village Roadshow Entertainment Group (VREG), which consists of Village Roadshow Pictures and Concord Music Group. Village Roadshow Pictures (VRP), is the film production division of Village Roadshow with its strategic US partners Crescent Entertainment Inc. VRP co-produces and co-finances feature length commercial motion pictures for exhibition in international theatrical markets and for subsequent worldwide release in all international media, including home video, DVD, and pay and free television. VRP's motion pictures are developed and produced in partnership with major US motion picture studios, predominantly Warner Bros.

While Village Roadshow began producing Australian films in the 1970s, the co-production agreement between Village Roadshow and Warner Bros, which began in 1998, expanded Village Roadshow's film production activities into larger budget, traditional Hollywood films for the global marketplace.

Village Roadshow Pictures is the leading independent Hollywood movie producer having won 8 Academy Awards and 3 Golden Globe Awards for films including Training Day, Mystic River and Happy Feet.

Village Roadshow Pictures has produced 66 films with global box office takings of over US$10 billion including blockbuster hits such as:

• The Matrix trilogy
• The Ocean’s trilogy
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Happy Feet
• I Am Legend

• Get Smart

• Gran Torino

• Sherlock Holmes 

The Company has also diversified into the music industry merging with Concord Music Group in February 2008.

Concord Music Group, is one of the world's largest independent music companies, with over 13,000 master recordings of some of the world's most well known artists.  In addition to being a market leader in Jazz and other niche genres (with recordings by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald and numerous other jazz legends), Concord's catalogue contains classic recordings by other legendary artists such as Credence Clearwater Revival, Otis Reading, Little Richard, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra.