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NEW SOUTH WALES Chadstone QUEENSLAND
Hoyts re-opened their newly rebuilt Chadstone Coorparoo
Kyogle
cinemas on 13 October 2016. The new Work has started on the new Dendy 10 screen
The Kyogle Community Cinemas was closed complex on level two, incorporates 13 screens, complex, which is due to open mid next year.
for a few weeks in early October for with each auditorium fitted out with powered
refurbishments, including 170 new seats. The recliners. The largest auditorium, Cinema One, Newmarket
venue was reopened under its new name, features an Xtremescreen with 390 seats, and Hoarding has gone up around some old shops
Kyogle Cinemas in late October. has Australia's first installation of Christie's which suggests that work will shortly start on
Source: Northern Star. CP42LH Laser Projection System producing Reading's new complex.
45,000 lumens of light onto a 24 m screen.
Upper Coomera
Sydney
Lots of infrastructure work starting for the
IMAX Darling Harbour was demolished in giant Westfield development that will include
September. A new cinema will be erected in a megaplex for Event.
its place and will open in 2019, as part of a
complex that will include a 588 room six star Brisbane
W Hotel and 20,000 square metres of The heritage-listed Tara House on Elizabeth
restaurants and retail. The revamped IMAX Street – once home to The Irish Club – might
will feature laser projection, as well as 430 soon be home to a cinema. A development
luxury seats - the premium offering will see Euroa application has been lodged for a cinema
patrons able to order meals from surrounding The former Soldiers’ Memorial Hall is up for complex at 179 Elizabeth Street, to be known
restaurants. Source: if.com.au sale. Built c. 1884, it was operated as the as the Elizabeth Picture Theatre.
Empress Theatre in the 1930s. Source: Bmag.com.au
Palace Cinemas are to open (mid/late 2017) a Source: Herald Sun.
new 14 screen complex called “Palace
Central” between the city and Broadway (at Wonthaggi
the old brewery that has now become Sydney After the Stadium 4 Cinema (part of the
Central shopping/apartments) just south of Performing Arts Centre) closed, a public
Central Station. It is expected that there will outcry forced the council to purchase the
be at least two “Premium Cinemas” that will cinema’s equipment from the lessee and restart
allow drinks and food - akin to Event's Gold the cinema.
Class. Source: SMH
Melbourne
VICTORIA The recent opening of the 188 room QT
Melbourne hotel on the site of the former
Russell Street GU Cinemas completes the WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Ballarat
A state-of-the-art six-screen digital cinema will transition from cinema complex to hotel. Perth
feature at the new $60 million Delacombe The Piccadilly Cinema will close next month,
Town Centre. SOUTH AUSTRALIA bringing the curtain down on 75 years of
history. Operator Cyril Watson recently
The Swan Hill-based Showbiz Cinemas chain Adelaide
has signed a 10-year lease on 1100 square The Festival Theatre will be closed from confirmed the art deco theatre, the only
metres of retail space at the Centre, which is July to December 2017 while a new car park cinema complex left in Perth’s CBD, would
currently under construction and expected and foyers are being built. The adjoining show its last film at the end of the school
to open in September, 2017. Playhouse and Space Theatres will remain holidays. He said it had been his dream to save
open. the grand dame of Perth cinemas when he took
Showbiz Cinemas has a triple-screen cinema on the lease in 2005, but it had lost too much
at Swan Hill. It has recently opened a screen money. He blamed illegal downloads, greedy
at the Portland Arts Centre in western Victoria Renovations to Her Majestys (reported in film companies and other problems that had
and has been named as the preferred new CR#91) will be delayed to mid 2018. beset the business.
operator of the cinema operations in Colac. .
Greater Union’s Hindley Street Film House
Source: SMH NATIONAL
(6 screens) reopened on Thursday 22
September (Closed August 2008).
Coburg Event Cinema developments at North Lakes,
Source: Adelaide Advertiser
A 15-screen cinema is planned for the former Pacific Fair and Springfield (Qld), Hurstville
Pentridge Prison in Coburg. Palace Cinemas Goodwood and Kotara (NSW) and Glenelg (SA) were
will open as part of a shopping complex in the The Capri Cinema (ex Odeon Star) opened / reopened during the year.
northern part of the historic site. The deal, celebrated its 75 birthday on 8 October. A
th
announced recently represents a major special program of nostalgia items were Reporting:
business commitment to the site. The cinema screened, including the 1941 film, Blossoms Colin Flint, Tony Tibballs, Royce Harris
will not open until mid-2019. in the Dust. Source: Adelaide Advertiser. Allan Webb, Victor Jurkenas, Anthony Owen,
Source: Moreland Leader Earl Martell
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