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TASMANIA
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Cinema (Star/Cinema One) in Mount
Street which had been converted into
NEW SOUTH WALES
Sirrocco’s Bar and Nightclub used as a
MOONLIGHT CINEMAS: Prime nightclub, closed on 24th July after
Television has announced the sale of going into liquidation.
Moonlight Cinemas to Amalgamated
Holdings for $1.8 million. Moonlight
operates a summer outdoor season in CARRINGTON: The former
Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane Everyones Theatre has undergone a
and Perth. sympathetic conversion to luxury
Becker Entertainment acquired apartments. The façade of the old
Moonlight from the founders for $8.3 cinema has been restored and looks
million in 2004. Becker was later quite impressive.
acquired by Prime. MURWILLUMBAH: The (1947)
DUBBO: The long-closed Regent Cinema is on the property
Westview Drive-In Theatre has been market. The cinema now only utilises
for sale for over two years. The 10ha the former balcony, whilst the ground
industrial-zoned land is adjacent to both floor area is used as retail space.
a caravan park and a juvenile detention
centre. With a nearby housing estate QUEENSLAND
edging towards to site, the formidable
asking price has made it a hard location BRISBANE: The Regent Cinemas
to sell. closed on Monday 14th June with a
screening of the 1942 Casablanca in its
Showcase auditorium and also a
premiere session of Sex in the City 2.
The 1929 Regent had its original
2,500+ seat auditorium divided into
four small cinemas in 1980 with the
Showcase using plaster decoration from
the old theatre. A campaign is
CHARLESTOWN: Reading
underway to stop the current
Cinemas are on track for the opening of
redevelopment plans which involve
their new multi-screen cinema complex
retaining only the heritage foyer and
in the massive shopping complex in
GRAFTON: The historic Saraton replacing the auditoriums with a
this Newcastle suburb. This may put
Theatre re-opened with the latest in modern 38-storey office tower.
the future of the existing Hoyts
comfort and Christie 2200 digital
complex under threat.
projectors on Thursday 2nd September.
The multi-million dollar upgrade took NEWCASTLE: Developers have
2½ years and also involved the building pulled out of their plan to redevelop the
of two small additional auditoriums Showcase Cinemas (former Lyric).
adjacent to the beautiful 1926 heritage Exhibitors, Theo and Margaret Goumas
auditorium. were forced to close the complex in
2008 and the fittings and equipment
were sold off, leaving the empty
building vacant ever since.
PADDINGTON: The Academy
Twin closed its doors on Sunday June
27th after rent increase negotiations
between Palace Cinemas and the
building’s Greek owners fell through.
A $1million upgrade of seating and
projection equipment was also needed
in the twin which opened in 1973 in the
shell of the giant West’s Olympia.

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