Village Roadshow Studios

History

Village Roadshow Studios opened in 1986 and was commissioned by Dino De Laurentiis for De Laurentiis Entertainment Limited (DEL). Village Roadshow purchased DEL and took over the facility in 1988. The Studios were built before WB Movie World in 1991 and they are adjacent to the Warner Bros. Movie World theme park. Despite their physical proximity and operational links, the studios and theme park are separate entities.

The theme park, and the studios' management have no involvement with productions and, as such, do not recommend cast, crew or extras. This is done independently by the production. However, experienced Warner Bros. Movie World staff are often involved in productions filmed at the studios. The studios are not open to the general public and as the productions are independently owned, permission to go on-set can only be obtained from the production itself.

In June 2004, a fire in Sound Stage 8, during the production of House of Wax, destroyed the sound stage.

Facility

The facility consists of nine sound stages, three water tanks (two outdoor and one indoor; one of which is the largest purpose built film water tank in Australia), 10 production areas, five construction workshops, onsite support facilities, two wardrobe and laundry facilities, accounting services, lock ups, screening and editing, preview theatrette, visual effects studio, film processing, post production, travel and freight services, and much more.

In addition to producing a variety of television shows and films, the studios have also been used by the adjacent Warner Bros. Movie World theme park. When the two facilities opened in 1991, a Studio Tour was run from Warner Bros. Movie World throughout the production areas of the Village Roadshow Studios before returning to the Movie Magic Special Effects Show. In 2011, both Sound Stage 1 and 2 were utilised for the theme park's annual halloween event, Fright Nights. The Saw and Zombie Apocalypse mazes were housed in these studios throughout October.

In 2018, some sound stages were used for the 2018 Commonwealth Games and played host to sports such as boxing and table tennis. Temporary spectator seating was installed for a total of 6,200 people for the two sports.

Productions

Films

• Hurricane Smith (1992)
• Fortress (1992)
• Street Fighter (1994)
• No Escape (1994)
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
• The Phantom (1996)
• Komodo (1999)
• Pitch Black (2000)
• Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
• Scooby-Doo (2002)
• Ghost Ship (2002)
• Darkness Falls (2003)
• Tempted (2003)
• Peter Pan (2003)
• House of Wax (2005)
• The Great Raid (2005)
• See No Evil (2006)
• Aquamarine (2006)
• Superman Returns (2006)
• The Marine (2006)
• The Condemned (2007)
• The Ruins (2008)
• Fool's Gold (2008)
• Nim's Island (2008)
• Beauty and the Beast (2009)
• Triangle (2009)
• Daybreakers (2009)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
• Sanctum (2011)
• Bait 3D (2012)
• Bad Karma (2012)
• The Railway Man (2013)
• Return to Nim's Island (2013)
• My Mistress (2014)
• The Inbetweeners 2 (2014)
• Unbroken (2014)
• The Fear Of Darkness (2015)
• San Andreas (2015)
• StalkHer (2015)
• The Shallows (2016)
• Kong: Skull Island (2017)
• Jungle (2017)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
• Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
• Guardians of the Tomb (2018)
• Aquaman (2018)
• Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)
• Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
• Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
• Black Site (2022)
• Spiderhead (2022)
• Elvis (2022)
• Thirteen Lives (2022)
• Ticket to Paradise (2022)
• True Spirit (2023)
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
• How to Make Gravy (2024)
• Eden (2025)
• Anaconda (2025)
• The Bluff (2026)
• Mortal Kombat II (2026)
• Spa Weekend (2026)
• Godzilla x Kong: Supernova (2027)
• Balls Up (TBA)
• Subversion (TBA)
• The Mark (TBA)
• The Mosquito Bowl (TBA)
• Voltron (TBA)

TV series

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Animalia
• Apples Never Fall
• Beastmaster
• Dumb Bunnies (co-production with YTV and Nelvana)
• Flipper
• Space: Above and Beyond
• The Lost World
• Mako: Island of Secrets
• Mission: Impossible
• Nautilus
• Paradise Beach
• Reef Break
• Rock Island Mysteries
• H2O: Just Add Water
• Irreverent
• Sea Patrol 2
• Terra Nova
• The Wilds (Season 2)
• Young Rock

Clients

• ABC Productions
• Alliance Atlantis
• Blue Sky Pictures
• Cappadocia Co Ltd
• Carlton America
• CBS Productions
• Disney Channel
• DreamWorks
• Fox Television
• Hartbreak Films
• HBO
• Konigsberg Smith Company
• London Weekend Television
• MGM Television
• Miramax Films
• NBC Productions
• Paramount Pictures
• Paramount Network Television
• Pearson Television
• Phoenix Film
• Revolution Studios
• RTL Television
• Samuel Goldwyn Company
• Telecine
• Viacom
• Von Zerneck/Sertner Productions
• Walden Media
• Walt Disney Features
• Walt Disney Television
• Warner Bros. Pictures
• Warner Bros. Television Studios
• Warner Independent Pictures
• Wilshire Court Productions
• WWE Films
• Marvel Films

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