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Roadshow Films
Roadshow Entertainment (formerly known as Roadshow Home Video from 1982–1993) is an Australian home video, production and distribution company that is a division of 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. History In 1982, Village Roadshow Entertainment was founded as Roadshow Home Video as a subsidiary of Roadshow Distributors. 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) Around the same time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidiary company. Unlike regional branches or divisions, subsidiaries are considered to be distinct entities from their parent companies; they are required to follow the laws of where they are incorporated, and they maintain their own executive leadership. Two or more subsidiaries primarily controlled by same entity/group are considered to be sister companies of each other. Subsidiaries are a common feature of modern business, and most multinational corporations organize their operations via the creation and purchase of subsidiary companies. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Citigroup, which have subsidiaries involved in many different Industry (e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980 Film)
''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' is a 1980 British family drama television film directed by Jack Gold and adapted by Blanche Hanalis from Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 children's novel of the same name. The film stars Sir Alec Guinness, Rick Schroder, Eric Porter, Connie Booth, and Colin Blakely. Plot synopsis Young Cedric 'Ceddie' Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1870s New York after the death of his father. He was the favorite son of Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, because the other two were wastrels and weaklings. But the Earl has long ago disowned his son for marrying outside the aristocracy. Cedric's two best friends are Mr. Hobbs the grocer (a Democrat and anti-aristocrat) and Dick Tipton the bootblack. After his other two sons die, leaving Cedric the heir apparent to the earldom, Lord Dorincourt sends Mr. Havisham, his lawyer, to America to bring Cedric to Britain. Havisham is authorized to buy expensive gifts for Cedric, but the boy ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American film studio, filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Founded on April 4, 1923, by four brothers, Harry Warner, Harry, Albert Warner, Albert, Sam Warner, Sam and Jack L. Warner, Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games. It is one of the "Major film studios, Big Five" major American film studios and a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The company is known for its film studio division, the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, which includes Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Castle Rock Entertainment and the Warner Bros. Television Group. Bugs Bunny, a character created for the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evita (1996 Film)
''Evita'' is a 1996 American biographical musical drama film based on the 1976 Evita (album), concept album produced by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which also inspired a Evita (musical), 1978 musical. The film depicts the life of Eva Perón, detailing her beginnings, rise to fame, political career and death at the age of 33. Directed by Alan Parker, and written by Parker and Oliver Stone, ''Evita'' stars Madonna as Eva, Jonathan Pryce as Eva's husband Juan Perón, and Antonio Banderas as Ché, an everyman who acts as the film's narrator. Following the release of the 1976 album, a film adaptation of the musical became mired in development hell for more than fifteen years, as the rights were passed on to several major studios, and various directors and actors considered. In 1993, producer Robert Stigwood sold the rights to Andrew G. Vajna, who agreed to finance the film through his production company Cinergi Pictures, with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Buena Vista Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century Home Entertainment
20th Century Home Entertainment (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC. and also known as 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment) was a home video distribution arm that distributes films produced by 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, Blue Sky Studios, and 20th Century Animation and several third-party studios, as well as television series by 20th Television, Searchlight Television, 20th Television Animation, and FX Productions in home entertainment formats. For 38 years, 20th Century Home Entertainment was the distinct home video distribution arm of Fox Entertainment Group. It was formed in 1982 as 20th Century-Fox Video. On March 20, 2019, The Walt Disney Company acquired 21st Century Fox, and as a result, its operations were folded into Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Disney's own home entertainment division, where it exists in the day merely as a brand label. History 20th Century-Fox Video (1981–1982) From 1976 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babette's Feast
''Babette's Feast'' () is a 1987 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel. The screenplay, written by Axel, was based on the 1958 story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). It was produced by Just Betzer, Bo Christensen and Benni Korzen, with funding from the Danish Film Institute. It stars Stéphane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, and Bodil Kjer. ''Babette's Feast'' was met with widespread critical acclaim and became the first Danish film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also the first Danish cinema film of a Blixen story. The film premiered in the ''Un Certain Regard'' section of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The elderly and pious Protestant sisters Martine and Filippa live in a small village on the remote western coast of Jutland in 19th-century Denmark. Their late father was a pastor who founded his own Pietistic conventicle. Lacking new converts, the aging sisters preside over a dwindling, elderly congregation. Forty-nine years before, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syme Home Video
Syme Home Video was a Melbourne-based film distributor in the late 1970s to mid-1980s. It was also the first distributor of Walt Disney Home Video Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. (doing business as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment) is the home entertainment distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company. The division handles the distribution of Disney's films, television series, an ... titles in the early 1980s, before Roadshow Home Video took over. Filmography * 1976: ''Deathcheaters'' * 1977: ''Journey Among Women'' * 1980: ''Touch and Go'' * 1980: ''Manganinnie'' * 1980: ''Final Cut'' * 1980: ''Fatty Finn'' * 1981: ''Doctors & Nurses'' * 1982: ''The Plains of Heaven'' * 1982: ''Duet for Four'' * 1982: ''Brothers'' * 1982: '' Remembrance of Love'' * 1983: ''10 to Midnight'' * 1983: ''Sahara'' * 1984: ''Exterminator 2'' {{film-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. (doing business as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment) is the home entertainment distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company. The division handles the distribution of Disney's films, television series, and other audiovisual content across digital formats and platforms. For 37 years, Buena Vista Home Entertainment handled autonomous distribution of those properties in several physical home media formats, such as VHSs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and 4K discs under various brand labels around the world. It was formed in 1987 as Buena Vista Home Video. It was renamed to its current legal name in 1997, although it is currently known in the UK as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (UK & Ireland) since 2013. The division adopted the current Walt Disney Studios-branding in its public name in 2007, but kept the Buena Vista-branding for corporate use. Since 2024, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment handles physical production and distribution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palace Cinemas (Australia)
Palace Cinemas is an Australian cinema chain that specialises in arthouse and international films. Their head office are based in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra and they operate locations in New South Wales (Central Park, Sydney, Central Park, Norton Street, Byron Bay, Ballina, New South Wales, Ballina& Oxford Street, Sydney, Oxford St), Victoria (Coburg, Victoria, Coburg, Brighton, Victoria, Brighton Bay, Northcote, Victoria, Northcote, Balwyn, Brighton, Victoria, Brighton, South Yarra, Melbourne, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Moonee Ponds & The Astor Theatre, Melbourne, The Astor Theatre), Western Australia (Raine Square), Queensland (Brisbane & Fortitude Valley, Queensland, Fortitude Valley) & Canberra. Operations Palace Cinema operate a variety of locations that specialise in international and local art-house films and cinema events. Palace has been managed by the Zeccola family since its inception. Palace Moore Park has a non-competition deal with its neighbouring cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endless Love (1981 Film)
''Endless Love'' is a 1981 American romantic drama film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley, Penelope Milford, and Beatrice Straight. The film also marks the feature film debut of Tom Cruise. Adapted from the 1979 novel of the same name by Scott Spencer, the screenplay was written by Judith Rascoe. The original score was composed by Jonathan Tunick. While the novel is set during the summer of 1969, the film updates the setting to the early 1980s and presents the narrative in chronological order, omitting the non-linear structure of the source material. The film received generally negative reviews, with critics drawing unfavorable comparisons to the novel, which explored themes of obsessive love. Despite the critical reception, the film's theme song—also titled " Endless Love" and performed by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie—emerged as a commercial success. It spent nine consecutive weeks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montenegro (film)
''Montenegro'' also known as ''Montenegro – Or Pigs and Pearls'' () is a 1981 Swedish black comedy film by Serbian director Dušan Makavejev. Plot Marilyn Jordan is a bored, depressed American housewife, married to a rich Swedish businessman with two seemingly perfect children. She tries to "spice up" her existence by surprising the family when she eats their entire dinner, setting the bedclothes on fire and poisoning the pet dog's milk and then advising it not to drink (the dog does not drink). Eventually Martin, Marilyn's husband, decides to have a psychiatrist see her, but it only serves to provoke her behaviour, and further exacerbate her frustration. One day, Marilyn decides to accompany her husband on a business trip, but she gets detained by airport security on a technicality. After missing her plane, Marilyn is befriended by a group of Yugoslavs, and is taken to a club they run, bearing the odd name of 'Zanzi-Bar'. Marilyn indulges in their fantastic, surreal world o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of The Mountain (film)
''King of the Mountain'' is a 1981 American action drama film starring Harry Hamlin, Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Richard Cox, Seymour Cassel and Dennis Hopper about a group that race their cars up and down Mulholland Drive for both money and prestige. The film's primary focus is Steve (Harry Hamlin), who has found himself generally content with his uncomplicated life of working and racing. This creates some amount of tension between him and his friends, who have been losing their interest in racing and have been attempting to make serious inroads in the music industry. Steve's blossoming relationship with singer Tina (Deborah Van Valkenburgh) causes him to re-think his mantra, as he realizes that a truly fulfilling life involves more than just work and play. The film was poorly regarded critically and did not perform well in the box office, although it was significant in being among the first films about street racing and communities of street racers, as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
