Roadshow Entertainment (formerly known as Roadshow Home Video from 1982–1993) is an Australian

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company that is a division of

Village Roadshow Village Roadshow Limited is an Australian company which operates cinemas and theme parks, and produces and distributes films. Before being acquired by private equity company BGH Capital, the company was listed on the Australian Securities Ex ...

(formerly Roadshow Home Video and Roadshow Entertainment) that distributes films in Australia and New Zealand. Their first release was ''

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''. Roadshow Entertainment is an independent video distributor in

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History

In 1982,

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

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'' (1978) * ''The Never Dead'' (aka: '' Phantasm'', 1979) * ''

'' (1979, with blue cover art) * '' Insatiable'' (1980) * ''

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'' (1980) * ''

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'' (1980) * ''

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'' (1981) * '' King of the Mountain'' (1981) * ''

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Palace Films Palace Cinemas is the fifth largest major cinema chain in Australia, with various locations in CBD and inner suburban areas of most capital cities. Palace Cinemas currently comprises 24 cinemas with 180 screens and more than 550 staff. Its head o ...

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. Roadshow started releasing DVDs in Australia with the release of ''

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'' on 31 October 1997. In 2008, Roadshow started releasing Blu-rays. On 21 September 2020,

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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. Since 2021, Warner Bros' films are released theatrically through

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, while Roadshow is continuing to release future Warner Bros. titles through their physical media and digital formats.

Roadshow and Village Roadshow subsidiaries and divisions

* Premiere Home Entertainment (1985–1993) – a division of Village Roadshow * Festival Video (1983–1990s) – a joint venture with

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and Warner Bros. * Mushroom Video (1983–1990s) – a joint venture with Festival Mushroom Records and Warner Bros. * Applause Home Video (c. 1990–1993) – a division of Village Roadshow *

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(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, also known as Roadshow Interactive * Roadshow-Lorimar Home Video (1985–1990) – a division for distributing Lorimar releases * Roadshow Music (1994–2013)

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

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. However, as of 2017, Roadshow Films' stake has since reduced to 31%. *

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(branded as ABC DVD and

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(post-2005 titles only) *

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(mid 1990s–present) *

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(1980s–mid 1990s, 2018–present) *

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* Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (mid 2016–present) *

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(1998–2005, 2020–present) (moved to Warner Bros. Home Entertainment internationally) *

(branded as Reel DVD) * ITV Studios Home Entertainment (branded as ITV) *

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Former

* Endeavour Entertainment (branded as Endeavour-Roadshow) *

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(1984–1994) *

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History

Roadshow and Village Roadshow subsidiaries and divisions

Labels distributed, duplicated and re-supplied

Former

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