ENT Ltd was a publicly listed Australian media company based in
Launceston, Tasmania run by major shareholder
Edmund Rouse. ENT's 1988 annual report described the company's principal activities as television, newspapers, radio, commercial printing, motels, travel agencies, picture theatres, property development, and investment. In 1994, a bribery scandal led to Rouse stepping down as managing director of ENT Ltd, which was taken over by WIN Corporation.
Filmpac Filmways Australasian Distributors was originally formed by the founders of
Dendy Cinemas, Mark Josem and Robert Ward, in 1971, to release movies to the Australian market. Mark Josem died in 1986 after a series of heart attacks from a surgery the previous year, and the company was renamed Filmpac Holdings soon afterwards. Filmways/Filmpac also had a home video division on its own under the name Filmways Home Video, starting with a deal with
Video Classics, then as a partnership with Video Tape Centre under the name 'Filmways VTC, with K-TEL Video distributing the titles from 1984 to 1985, and
Vestron Video International distributing titles by Filmways Home Video/Filmpac from 1985 to 1988 before it became an independent video distributor for two years. Both Vestron and Filmways were Video Classics members before the K-TEL alliance. Between 1986 and 1990, Filmpac released a total of 69 films theatrically, making it the country's largest independent mainstream theatrical distributor. The company collapsed in 1990, with its film library purchased by
Village Roadshow, along with certain assets from another defunct distributor
Seven Keys. == Other entities formerly controlled by ENT ==