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Village Cinemas’ “Hump Day Happy Hour”

Village Cinemas will launch a weekly Wednesday “Hump Day Happy Hour” option to Vrewards members beginning in August 2017, for a limited time. Village Cinemas General Manager of Marketing & Sales, Mohit Bhargava, is looking forward to providing Vrewards members with the opportunity to purchase $10 traditional movie tickets. “Vrewards is all about providing our…

Village Cinemas to Screen Mayweather vs McGregor Fight

Village Cinemas Australia, Foxtel and Fox Sports are working together to bring the highly anticipated Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Conor McGregor fight to big screen cinemas, nationally. Mayweather and McGregor will be broadcast live from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to Village Cinemas locations around Victoria. It will screen on Sunday 27 August from…

RLJE Acquires Rights to BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99

RLJE Films has acquired all North American rights to the highly anticipated film BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99. After the successful collaboration on the critically acclaimed western Bone Tomahawk, RLJE Films, writer/director S. Craig Zahler, producers Jack Heller from ASSEMBLE Media and Dallas Sonnier from Cinestate, unite with IMG Films, “With the announced Venice, Toronto…

The Green Room Film Fund

To celebrate the launch of The Green Room – The Global Filmmaker Networking App, and promote independent film making, we have created a film fund of $50,000 to be awarded to projects registered through The Green Room Network. The International Jury will select the successful projects over four funding rounds. The number of projects selected…

Village Cinemas to Unveil M-City Monash Cinema Site

Village Cinemas will welcome an all-new cinema site located in Melbourne’s largest mixed-use precinct, M-City Monash. Village Cinemas will be introducing a new cinema complex that features an array of cinema and entertainment offerings including an innovative food and beverage component. Chris Stanley, Divisional CFO at Village Cinemas Australia explained that the proposed cinemas occupy…

Dunkirk Marches Past $300 Million Worldwide

Christopher Nolan’s widely acclaimed epic action thriller “Dunkirk” has crossed the $300 million mark. The announcement was made today by Sue Kroll, President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. Kroll said that one of the best-reviewed films of the year, “Dunkirk” stormed to the top of the domestic box office in its first…

Wonder Woman Box Office Heads Past $400 Million

“Wonder Woman” reigns supreme in theaters across North America, with today’s tickets bringing the box office to a total of $400 million and counting—the most for any film in this year’s highly competitive summer corridor—and taking it to a worldwide total of more than $794 million to date. The announcement was made today by Sue…

New Voting Structure in Junior Eurovision 2017

Young stars from across Europe will eagerly make their way to Tbilisi, Georgia this November, as it is announced that 16 hopeful participants will perform at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017. For the first time ever, a new voting structure will be introduced to allow viewers from around the world to vote online for…

Millarworld Acquired by Netflix

Netflix Inc. have announced they have acquired Millarworld, the comic book publishing powerhouse founded by Mark Millar, the legendary creator of such iconic characters and stories as Kick-Ass, Kingsman, and Old Man Logan, and one of the most important voices in comics. “As creator and re-inventor of some of the most memorable stories and characters…