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With massive art-deco motifs on the  Cinema 5 has 133 seats and features  digital. The seats, side walls and screen
          side walls, Cinema 3 is the largest  side walls with cathedral shaped stained  curtains are all bright red. The screen
          auditorium seating 433 patrons.   glass windows illuminated by coloured  curtain also features gold fringing,
            The screen masking opens out to  lighting which slowly changes every 45  giving the cinema a Royal feel.
          25.5 metres for CinemaScope films,  seconds.                            Cinema 8 is completely unique. It is
          hence its claim of having the biggest  Cinema 6 seats 196 and features a  known as the City Skyline Cinema. The
          ‘scope screen in the state! Widescreen  gold curtain with burgundy padded  side walls are covered entirely with a
          films only occupy about 18m of the  walls.                           massive photo of Brisbane City. The
          screen. (Other sites have screens almost  The 293 seat, Cinema 7 opened as a  right side features the river with the
          as wide, but they mask down for ‘Scope  digital cinema with digital 3D facilities.  buildings in the background whilst the
          so their widescreen is bigger).   When the complex first opened, very  left side focuses on the Story Bridge.
            Cinema 4 is an intimate space for  few cinemas were showing 2K digital  Seating 250 people, Cinema 8 was also
          167 patrrons and features a waterfall  films. At one point they were able to  recently converted to digital 3D and 2K
          screen curtain and metal shaped   advertise a Queensland Exclusive being  digital whilst retaining the 35mm
          decoration on the side walls.     the only cinema showing certain films in  projector.


































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