Village Roadshow: bets on the end of the world

Could These Final Hours attract young adults? Time will tell, though Village Roadshow has the muscle to shorten the odds. Sandy George reports on Joel Pearlman in confessional mode at CinefestOz.
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Could These Final Hours attract young adults? Time will tell, though Village Roadshow has the muscle to shorten the odds. Sandy George reports on Joel Pearlman in confessional mode at CinefestOz.

Roadshow managing director Joel Pearlman describes Zak Hilditch’s end-of-the-world story These Final Hours as “unique, original and an incredible ride” and says he is partnering with Robert Connolly’s new entity CinemaPlus on the distribution “with the mindset that we’ll be going out to a broad audience”.

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.