Alcon Media Group has won its $417.5 million bid to acquire the film library of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group.
The spans 108 films, including the dozens of pictures the company co-produced and co-financed in association with Warner Brothers Pictures since 1997, such as “Mad Max: Fury Road,” the “Ocean’s Eleven” series, “The Matrix” trilogy, “Joker,” “Ready Player One,” “Sherlock Holmes” and “Wonka.”
The pact includes Village Roadshow’s entire library of intellectual properties, distribution rights and cash flows. In a release touting the purchase, Alcon said the library generates an estimated $50 million annually. Village Roadshow’s assets also include a slate of films and scripted and unscripted television series that
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