PARIS--(Marketwire - Dec 10, 2012) -
PRESS RELEASE
Technicolor expands worldwide footprint in Media & Entertainment market
Strategic Alliance in Australia with Village Roadshow Ltd, a leading
Entertainment Company
Technicolor (EURONEXT PARIS: TCH) today
announced a Strategic Alliance with Village Roadshow Ltd, a
long-standing
customer and a leading entertainment company operating in Film and
DVD
Distribution, Cinema, Film Production, Theme Parks and Music. This
agreement
further strengthens Technicolor's worldwide footprint by expanding its
presence
in Australia, where the Group is already well-established as the
country's
largest DVD/Blu-ray disc replicator. It will also strengthen its
Australian
operations.
Since 2000, Technicolor is Village Roadshow's exclusive DVD and
Blu-ray
manufacturing supplier. The Group served both Australian and
internationally
produced titles such as Happy Feet, Red Dog, Sex & the City 1 & 2,
Sherlock
Holmes, The Hurt Locker, Ocean's 11, 12 & 13, I am Legend, Mao's Last
Dancer,
Underbelly and many others.
Under the strategic alliance announced today, Technicolor and Village
Roadshow
will jointly progress the transition to digital content creation and
delivery,
and will further extend Technicolor's existing service offerings
in the
Australian market including:
* Digital Cinema distribution Service Support
* DVD/BD manufacturing and distribution - through Technicolor's
acquisition of
the Roadshow distribution centre including the distribution
responsibilities
for Warner Bros and Paramount Home Entertainment as well as Roadshow
Entertainment
* Digital Encoding, Content Preparation, Transcoding and Related Digital
Media
Services including MediAffinity.
"We are delighted to be broadening our relationship with a leading
entertainment
company such as Village Roadshow Ltd," said Frédéric Rose, CEO
of Technicolor.
"Leveraging our synergies, we will be able to provide cutting-edge
services to
the Australian Media & Entertainment market"
"This strategic alliance is an important milestone, as Technicolor will
become a
key-partner in the provision of Entertainment Services in particular
for our
Film, DVD and Digital Distribution business in Australia. We look
forward to
expanding our close working relationship and thus further
developing and
distributing compelling content to consumers." said Chris Chard,
Managing
Director Roadshow Films Pty Ltd.
A strategic alliance strengthening Technicolor's worldwide strategy
Technicolor is a global leader in production and postproduction
services, and
one of the main worldwide providers for Film, Digital Cinema and DVD
services
for content producers/owners.
In Australia, in addition to Village Roadshow, Technicolor has been
a long-standing DVD and Blu-ray service provider to Warner Bros
Entertainment, The Walt
Disney Company, Universal Pictures International, and Paramount
Pictures.
Technicolor employs over 220 employees in its DVD and digital media
services
operations - with replication operation in Melbourne and packaging,
digital
media services (including digital cinema) and returns processing
facility in
Sydney.
More broadly, Technicolor is a long term partner of Australia's leading
Service
Providers and content distributors like Telstra and Foxtel, providing a
wide
range of products and services, in particular our market leading digital
home
products like the Telstra's T-Hub®.
The alliance signed with Village Roadshow is perfectly aligned with the
Group's
strategy to extend the range and depth both of its product and service
offerings
and its geographical coverage, while developing new solutions to
support the
transition of its customers to digital.
About Technicolor
Technicolor, a worldwide technology leader in the media and
entertainment
sector, is at the forefront of digital innovation. Our world class
research and
innovation laboratories enable us to lead the market in delivering
advanced
video services to content creators and distributors. We also benefit from
an
extensive intellectual property portfolio focused on imaging and sound
technologies, based on a thriving licensing business. Our commitment:
supporting
the delivery of exciting new experiences for consumers in theaters and
homes.
Euronext Paris: TCH www.technicolor.com
About Village Roadshow
In movie production Village Roadshow, through its investment in the
Village
Roadshow Entertainment Group is one of the most successful
independent
co-producers in Hollywood and in partnership with Warner Bros has
produced hits
including The Matrix trilogy, the Ocean's trilogy, Charlie and the
Chocolate
Factory, Happy Feet, Get Smart, I am Legend and Sherlock Holmes and the
upcoming
The Great Gatsby.
Village Roadshow through its ownership of Roadshow Films is the
leading
independent Film, DVD, TV and Digital distributor in the Australian market.
Village Cinemas jointly owns and operates 507 screens across 50
sites in
Australia, 81 screens at 10 sites in Singapore, 67 screens at 9 sites in
the USA
and 12 screens in the UK.
Village Roadshow has also been involved in Theme Parks since 1989
and is
Australia's largest theme park owner and operator - Warner Bros Movie
World,
Sea World, Wet 'n' Wild.
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