Roadshow Entertainment

Roadshow Entertainment (formerly Roadshow Home Video) is a division of the Australian media company Village Roadshow (formerly Roadshow Home Video and Roadshow Entertainment) that distributes films in Australia and New Zealand. Their first release was Mad Max. Roadshow Entertainment is an independent video distributor in Australia and New Zealand.

Roadshow Entertainment
IndustryFilm distribution
Founded1982 (1982)
Headquarters
Sydney, New South Wales
,
Australia
Area served
Australia
New Zealand
ProductsHome video
Cinematic
OwnerVillage Roadshow
DivisionsRoadshow Films
Websitehttps://roadshow.com.au/

History

In 1982, Village Roadshow Entertainment was founded as Roadshow Home Video. Their first batch of movie titles, released on both VHS and Betamax format, were:

  • Sex World (1978)
  • The Never Dead (aka: Phantasm, 1979)
  • Mad Max (1979, with blue cover art)
  • Insatiable (1980)
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
  • A Change of Seasons (1980)
  • Atlantic City (1980)
  • Scanners (1981)
  • King of the Mountain (1981)
  • Montenegro (1981)
  • Endless Love (1981)

1983: Palace Films was started as a home video distributor between Roadshow, Blake Films and private investor Antony Veccola.

In 1985, Roadshow Home Video became Village Roadshow Home Video and Premiere Home Entertainment was established. Veccola bought out the other company's stock of Palace and it ventured out into the film distribution business and opened a small number of art-house cinemas around Australia's main cities and became an independent company. Its home video release were still handled by Village Roadshow until the late 1990s.

1990: Applause Home Video and Video Selection Australia were established as a Village Roadshow label.

1993: Village Roadshow Home Video becomes Village Roadshow Entertainment.

Late 1990s: Palace home video distribution with Roadshow has been expired.

In 1999, Roadshow started releasing DVDs.

In 2008, Roadshow started releasing Blu-rays.

In September 2020, Warner Bros. announced that its distribution deal with Village Roadshow would expire at the end of 2020. The two studios' partnership had lasted for more than four decades. Beginning in 2021, WB's films will released by a new partner, Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.[1]

Roadshow and Village Roadshow subsidiaries and divisions
  • Premiere Home Entertainment (1985–1993) – (a division of Village Roadshow)
  • Festival Video (1983–1990s) – (a division of Festival Mushroom Records and Warner Bros.)
  • Mushroom Video (1983–1990s) – (a division of Festival Mushroom Records and Warner Bros.)
  • Applause Home Video (c. 1990 – 1993) – (a division of Village Roadshow)
  • Reel Corporation (2000s–) – (budget division of Village Roadshow)
  • Hopscotch Films (2005–2011) – (distributed by Village Roadshow)
  • Palace Home Video/Entertainment/Films (1983–2000) – (subsidiary of Roadshow/Village Roadshow)
  • Roadshow New Media (1990s) – (video games publishing division of Village Roadshow)
  • Roadshow-Lorimar Home Video (1985–1990) – (a division for distributing Lorimar releases)
  • Roadshow Music (1994–2013)[2]

Labels distributed, duplicated and re-supplied

Roadshow Entertainment has its own label named Roadshow Films, which is in turn the theatrical distribution unit of Village Roadshow. On 16 December 2014, Roadshow Films acquired a 33% stake in American film production and international sales company FilmNation Entertainment.[3] However, as of 2017, Roadshow Films' stake has since reduced to 31%.

Former
  • Endeavour Entertainment (branded as Endeavour-Roadshow)
  • Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (1984–1994)
  • BBC (1996–2019) (moved to Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  • Warner (2015–2020) (moved to Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  • New Line Cinema (moved to Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
  • HBO (moved to Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

References
  1. https://deadline.com/2020/09/warner-bros-ends-australia-distribution-alliance-village-roadshow-four-decades-1234581074
  2. Scott Fitzsimons (27 May 2013). "EXCLUSIVE: Home Of Savage Garden, Roadshow Music Folds". The Music (magazine). Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  3. "Roadshow Entertainment Nabs Stake In FilmNation Entertainment". Variety.
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