Roadshow Home Video
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Roadshow Entertainment (formerly Roadshow Home Video) is a division of the Australian media company Village Roadshow (formerly Roadshow Home Video and Roadshow Entertainment). Notable releases include First Blood
, Mad Max
, Gallipoli
, and The Terminator
. Their first release was Scanners
. Like Rigby-CIC Video (defunct), RCA
/Columbia Pictures
/Hoyts
Video and CEL Home Video
(half of population replaced), Roadshow Home Video is an independent video distributor in Australia and New Zealand.
Slogans:
The very best the entertainment world has to offer.
A new dimension of the home entertainment market.
1985: Roadshow Home Video becomes Village Roadshow Home Video
1993: Village Roadshow Home Video becomes Village Roadshow Entertainment
1997: Roadshow's first release on DVD is the 1979 classic Mad Max.
First Blood
First Blood is a 1982 action thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film stars Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled and misunderstood Vietnam War veteran, with Sheriff Will Teasle as his nemesis and Colonel Samuel Trautman as his former commander and only ally...
, Mad Max
Mad Max
Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller and revised by Miller and Byron Kennedy over the original script by James McCausland. The film stars Mel Gibson, who was unknown at the time. Its narrative based around the traditional western genre, Mad Max tells a story...
, Gallipoli
Gallipoli (1981 film)
Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian film, directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, about several young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during the First World War. They are sent to Turkey, where they take part in the Gallipoli Campaign. During the...
, and The Terminator
The Terminator
The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr., and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton. The film was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures, and filmed in Los...
. Their first release was Scanners
Scanners
Scanners is a 1981 science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan...
. Like Rigby-CIC Video (defunct), RCA
RCA
RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...
/Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...
/Hoyts
Hoyts
The Hoyts Group is an Australian company consisting of Hoyts Exhibition, Hoyts Distribution and Val Morgan.Hoyts Exhibition manages 450 screens across 40 Australian and 10 New Zealand cinema complexes; making it Australia's second largest cinema chain. Val Morgan, the cinema advertising arm of the...
Video and CEL Home Video
Communications and Entertainment Limited
Communications and Entertainment Limited was an Australian home video cassette distributor in the 1980s. They were originally known as Publishing and Broadcasting Video .-History:...
(half of population replaced), Roadshow Home Video is an independent video distributor in Australia and New Zealand.
Slogans:
The very best the entertainment world has to offer.
A new dimension of the home entertainment market.
History
1982: Village Roadshow Entertainment is founded as Roadshow Home Video.1985: Roadshow Home Video becomes Village Roadshow Home Video
1993: Village Roadshow Home Video becomes Village Roadshow Entertainment
1997: Roadshow's first release on DVD is the 1979 classic Mad Max.
Roadshow/Village Roadshow subsidiarys and divisions
- Premiere Home Entertainment (1985 - 199?) - (a division of Village Roadshow)
- Festival Video (1983 - 1990s) - (a division of Festival Mushroom Records and Warner Bros.Warner Bros.Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
) - Mushroom Video (1983 - 1990s) - (a division of Festival Mushroom Records and Warner Bros.)
- Applause Home Video (c. 1990 - 199?) - (a Division of Village Roadshow)
- Reel Corporation (2000s-) - (a division of Village Roadshow)
- Hopscotch Films (2005-) - (distributed by Village Roadshow)
- Palace Home Video/Entertainment/Films (1983 - 1990s) - (Subsidiary of Roadshow/Village Roadshow)
- Roadshow-Lorimar Home Video (1985-early 1990s) - (a division for distributing Lorimar releases)
Labels Distributed, Duplicated and Re-Supplied
However, Roadshow Home Video has a label of itself, so it is named as Roadshow Films.- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (1982-1992)
- 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment20th Century Fox Home Entertainment20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is the home video distribution arm of the 20th Century Fox film studio. It was established in 1976 as Magnetic Video Corporation, and later as 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox Video and FoxVideo, Inc....
(New Zealand only) - MGM Home EntertainmentMGM Home EntertainmentMGM Home Entertainment is the home video and DVD arm of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-History:The home video division of MGM started in 1979 as MGM Home Video, releasing all the movies and TV shows by MGM. In 1980, MGM joined forces with CBS Video Enterprises, the home video division of the CBS television...
(New Zealand only) - Warner Bros.Warner Bros.Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
(aka Warner Home VideoWarner Home VideoWarner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . The company launched in the United States with twenty films on VHS and Betamax videocassettes in late 1979...
) - ABC VideoABC VideoABC Video was the VHS and Betamax distribution arm of Australian Broadcasting Corporation from the mid-1980s until early-2005 when it was shut down in favor of ABC DVD, which was founded a few years before....
(branded as ABC DVD) - New Line CinemaNew Line CinemaNew Line Cinema, often simply referred to as New Line, is an American film studio. It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne as a film distributor, later becoming an independent film studio. It became a subsidiary of Time Warner in 1996 and was merged with larger sister studio Warner...
(until it merged with Warner Bros.) - The Weinstein CompanyThe Weinstein CompanyThe Weinstein Company is an American film studio founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005 after the brothers left the then-Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had co-founded in 1979...
- Lionsgate
- BBC Video (branded as BBC)
- Nine NetworkNine NetworkThe Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
(branded as Channel 9) - Fremantle Media
- Hopscotch Entertainment
- Village Roadshow PicturesVillage Roadshow PicturesVillage Roadshow Pictures is an Australian motion picture production company. It is a subsidiary of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, an Australian entertainment company. Most of its films are co-produced in partnership with Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema...
- Anchor Bay EntertainmentAnchor Bay EntertainmentAnchor Bay Entertainment is a U.S. based home entertainment and production company and is a division of Starz Media, which is a unit of Starz, LLC. It was previously owned by IDT Entertainment until 2006 when IDT was purchased by Starz Media. Anchor Bay markets and sells feature films, series,...
(New Zealand only) - South Pacific PicturesSouth Pacific PicturesSouth Pacific Pictures is a television production company based in New Zealand. The company produces drama series, mini-series, telemovies and feature films for the domestic market and international market....
(New Zealand only) - Reel CorporationReel CorporationReel Corporation is an independent Australian film distributor. Reel Corporation Australia established a joint venture sales company with Roadshow Entertainment called Reel DVD.-History:...
(branded as Reel DVD) - Umbrella Entertainment (New Zealand only)
- Magna PacificMagna PacificMagna Pacific is a leading independent film and home entertainment distributor headquartered in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, operating within Australia and New Zealand...
(New Zealand only) - CIC-Taft Home VideoCIC VideoCIC Video was a home video distributor, owned by Cinema International Corporation , and operated in some countries by local operators...
/PolyGram Video/Rainbow Products (now Paramount Home EntertainmentParamount Home EntertainmentParamount Home Entertainment is the division of Paramount Pictures dealing with home video founded in late 1975.-History:...
and Universal Studios Home EntertainmentUniversal Studios Home EntertainmentUniversal Studios Home Entertainment is the home video division of Universal Pictures...
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