Village Roadshow Pictures

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Village Roadshow Picures
Type	Subsidiary
Founded
Headquarters	, Australia
Industry	Motion pictures
Owner	Village Roadshow Entertainment Group
Parent	Village Roadshow Entertainment Group
Website	www.villageroadshowpictures.com

Village Roadshow Pictures is an Australian motion picture production company. It is a division of Village Roadshow, an Australian entertainment company.

[edit] Films

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:

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)
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Music and Lyrics (2007)
License to Wed (2007)
Lucky You (2007)
The Invasion (2007)
The Brave One (2007)
I Am Legend (2007)
Speed Racer (2008)
Neopets (2009)

VRP has also co-produced some 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), Don't Say a Word (through 20th Century Fox), and Rogue (through Dimension Films).

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.