World Movies takes over Goat Island for Battle Royal screening

Tim Burrowes

October 22, 2012 12:54

Secret Cinema guests watch the Goat Island sunset

SBS’s pay TV channel World Movies last night staged a Secret Cinema event which saw 300 guests taken to a screening on Goat Island in Sydney Harbour of cult Japanese movie Battle Royale.

Despite the ticket holders not knowing in advance where they were going or what film they would be seeing, places sold out in less than ten minutes.

When they arrived on the island, guests were handed weapons, went through martial arts training and watched burlesque and contortionist performances. The film featured a group of Japanese schoolchildren forced to fight each other to the death on a deserted island.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.