Village Roadshow Pictures
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Village Roadshow Pictures is a motion picture production company. It is a division of Village Roadshow, an Australian entertainment company.
Village Roadshow has been producing Australian films since the 1970s, and expanded into international film production in the late-1990s. A co-production agreement between VRP and Warner Bros. began in 1998, and has been a major success, with such hits as:
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- Practical Magic (1998)
- Analyze This (1999)
- The Matrix (1999)
- Deep Blue Sea (1999)
- Three Kings (1999)
- Three to Tango (1999)
- Gossip (2000)
- Space Cowboys (2000)
- Red Planet (2000)
- Miss Congeniality (2000)
- Valentine (2001)
- See Spot Run (2001)
- Exit Wounds (2001)
- Swordfish (2001)
- Cats & Dogs (2001)
- Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
- Training Day (2001)
- Ocean's Eleven (2001)
- The Majestic (2001)
- Queen of the Damned (2002)
- Showtime (2002)
- Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
- The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
- Ghost Ship (2002)
- Analyze That (2002)
- Two Weeks Notice (2002)
- Dreamcatcher (2002)
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
- Mystic River (2003)
- Torque (2004)
- Taking Lives (2004)
- Catwoman (2004)
- Ocean's Twelve (2004)
- Constantine (2005)
- Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)
- House of Wax (2005)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
- Rumor Has It (2005)
- Firewall (2006)
- The Lake House (2006)
- Happy Feet (2006)
- Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
VRP has also co-produced a couple of movies with Paramount Pictures, the most notable being Zoolander and Down to Earth, and through a joint venture with Hoyts, Three to Tango, and Music and Lyrics (with Warner Bros.) and Disturbing Behavior (with Metro-Goldwyn Mayer), Saving Silverman (through Sony Pictures) and Don't Say a Word (through 20th Century Fox).
Outside the United States, the company has had some success, with the Greek film A Touch of Spice, and within the Australian market, with films such as Bad Eggs, Crackerjack and Fat Pizza.
