Ardent Leisure unveils plans to build $75M Dreamworld Resort at its Gold Coast theme park
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Subscriber only ARDENT Leisure has unveiled a $75 million plan for a new hotel and tourist park - Dreamworld Resort. In an announcement to the ASX this morning, the theme parks operator said it had appointed accommodation developer Evolution Group to fund and build an accommodation precinct on part of the surplus land owned by Ardent next to the Dreamworld park. The accommodation offering will include a 4-star 250 room resort-style hotel, 40 bungalows and a 5-star tourist park with 100 powered sites.
Events Cinema Newcomer Iconic Events Hires Steve Bunnell as CEO
Former Alamo Drafthouse and Regal exec joins event distributor that just added 1,000 theaters to its network
Jeremy Fuster | April 28, 2021 @ 11:00 AM
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As movie theaters continue to recover from the pandemic, newly formed cinema event company Iconic Events has named former Alamo Drafthouse and Regal executive Steve Bunnell as its CEO on Wednesday.
The hire comes as Iconic has made deals with theater chains representing over 1,000 locations to add them to their network. Founded last year by former Cinemark CEO Tim Warner and former Village Roadshow co-chairman Michael Lambert, Iconic is looking to become a competitor in a space long dominated by Fathom Events, and which is becoming more popular with movie theaters trying to find as many revenue streams as possible to make up for a year’s worth of lost profit thanks to COVID-19.
Murray-Bruce partners American film producer, Steve Mosko for African movies, talents
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Nigerian business magnate and founder of Silverbird Group, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has partnered American film producer, Steve Mosko, CEO of Village Roadshow, a division of Warner Brothers Studio, the producers of Ocean 8, Joker, The Magnificent 7 and Equalizer with popular American actor, Denzel Washington, to produce movies with African talents.
The Former Senator representing Bayelsa East Constituency, in a video on Thursday, said the partnership will provide Africans with the opportunity to showcase the rich African talents to the world.
According to him, “this man controls a multi-billion naira budget and he wants to help Africa. The next superstar is going to come from Africa and this man(Steve Mosko) is going to make it happen and an African will win an Oscar.”
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Subscriber only MAYOR Tom Tate says the city needs to build a second giant sound stage or risk losing silver-screen blockbusters such as Thor, Elvis and Pirates of the Caribbean. The film studio built at Village Roadshow ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Games is full with a laundry list of high-profile movies spanning well into the future. Seven major productions have either filmed on the Coast since mid-2020 or are in production here. Film set in the cane fields of Steiglitz for the Elvis Presley movie directed by Baz Luhrmann, Wednesday, November 4, 2020 â Picture: Richard Walker