Tis a great flick though!
Yeah it is. Haven’t seen it in an age.
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The star joked about hiding her fractured toe during filming on the film’s set in Australia.
“God, I miss early mornings in the wilderness, birds chirping, extremes babbling, and the leaves rustling as a serial killer waits for me,” Theron jokingly set at the Netflix event. “It’s actually a miracle that I’m here today. Apex only wrapped like a week ago, so I’m fresh off the mountain. I still have some Australian dirt under this pretty manicure, and my cute boot is hiding a fractured toe.”
Apex follows a rock climber who finds herself being hunted in the wild. Baltasar Kormákur directs the film with a script from Jeremy Robbins. Theron stars alongside Taron Egerton and Eric Bana.
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This has become a bit of a mess, especially for our territory, where (AFAIK) Roadshow Films (Australia) had a perpetual licencing agreement with Village Roadshow Pictures (the USA entity in legalities at present) to distribute (all media) their catalogue, despite the two sharing name only and not being directly linked for many years now.
If another buyer comes along, say the mentioned Alcon, wonder what would happen with this agreement and could have further licencing ramifications for Nine-Stan, other broadcasters and streamers, while also opening up new licencing opportunities if rights transfer, save for how Alcon set-up their IP and rights agreements internationally.
Lilo & Stitch delivered the second-highest opening cinema weekend for a film in Australia this year.
The 4x Oscar nominee set the record for most burning parachute jumps by an individual after jumping out of a helicopter 16 times with a fuel-soaked chute set ablaze in a stunt for the final installment in the action franchise.
Director Baz Luhrmann and wife Catherine Martin have both been appointed Companion (AC) of the Order of Australia in this year’s King’s Birthday honours list, for their services to the arts.
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Kill one snake, two will pop up in its place.
Cinema giant flags part-sale of Sydney’s George Street complex
Some of the real estate behind one of Sydney’s most popular cinema complexes, Event Cinemas on George Street, is up for sale with its ASX-listed owner EVT keen to channel the proceeds into its hotels division instead.
At a corporate level, the listing of 525 George Street – one of the buildings that make up the overall complex – is part of EVT’s “asset maximisation programme”.
That strategy has been under way for some time – raising $280 million since 2019 as the hospitality company sells off “non-core assets” to generate cash for its growing 85-asset, 12,600-room hotels arm.
But for Sydney’s movie goers, the proposed sale could also bring some disruption, with EVT including what it calls “shovel-ready” plans to redevelop the property into a 43-storey tower with a hotel.
The cinema complex has 16 screens across the 525 and 505 George Street properties – five at 525 and 11 at 505 George Street.
“The full complex will remain operational until the 525 George Street redevelopment commences, after which the 11 screens at 505 George Street will continue to operate,” the company said on Wednesday (June 11).
Jason Isaacs, veteran UK actor who also made it in Hollywood, best known for Harry Potter and recent star of White Lotus S3, has given a wide-ranging bombshell interview.
Amongst things dropped, was a mega star who is apparently the “worst bully ever”.
Online there are plenty of people suggesting that it could be anyone from Sean Connery or Richard Harris, to Mel Gibson or Bruce Willis and even Jackie Chan:
Note: Village Roadshow Entertainment Group is no longer related to Village Roadshow of Australia.
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[Village Roadshow Pictures acquisition]
A source at Warner Bros. Discovery said distribution rights to the films in the library will continue to be owned by the studio. Warner Bros. will also retain the right to co-finance derivative works from those films.
I wonder if this might also mean Australia’s Roadshow Films will also retain distribution rights in this territory for the library, as they have had a long-time agreement for, dating back to when they had ownership over VRP and when that entity was established?
Depends how the contract has been written if its home media, aside from digital, then yes, IIRC, Roadshow still handle WB in home entertainment (Universal has theatrical distribution)
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It may even be in perpetuity, regardless of future ownerships?
IIRC all of Village Roadshow Pictures’ films (almost all were co-produced/released with Warners) had separate copyrights for international markets including Australia, the end credits would read “Copyright … and Village Roadshow Pictures BVI Ltd in all other territories” or something along those lines.
Which would put those IPs and distributions outside of North America solely in Alcon’s hands now.
But whether contractually, many years ago, Australia’s Roadshow stipulated perpetual rights here (most likely when still invested in the Hollywood production arm) or not we’ll have to wait and see. If the latter, it means Alcon could have to choose a new local distributor for their Village content and could be one of many options, assuming they depart from Roadshow.
Alcon’s titles have historically always been with at least one other production company and/or studio if not multiple, mainly Warners, Summit (handled here by Studiocanal Australia - formerly known as Hoyts) and Lionsgate. So it’d possibly be the first time Alcon will have control over content somewhere in the world, both IP and distribution.
It’ll also be interesting to see what happens with other VRP content locked-in production or future IP sequels.
Universal and Warners have a joint venture for home entertainment. I’m surprised that Roadshow hasnt been sidelined for that.
Dont know if that joint venture goes through Universal and Sony’s joint venture.
Joint ventuee-ception, if you will.
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