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Regent Theatre cinema usher, 1936. The Regent Theatre was a heritage-listed cinema and entertainment venue in George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, built in 1928 as a flagship for Hoyts, and was demolished in 1988 by property developer Leon Fink.
George Street facade of the former Plaza Cinema. The former Plaza Theatre in Sydney, New South Wales is a heritage-listed building designed as a 2000-seat cinema by Eric Heath for the Hoyts Group, and opened in 1930. It is no longer used as a cinema.
The venue was redeveloped, from two former cinemas, by property developer Leon Fink. [1] The foyer of the Metro, designed by leading Australian stage designer Brian Thomson, features a lightweight plastic replica of the Art Deco crystal chandelier which once hung in Regent Theatre which formerly stood opposite the Metro in George Street.
Setting 2 of the building is the George Street cinema entertainment strip between Liverpool and Bathurst Streets, where the redevelopment of the Trocadero site and nearby lots in the 1980s saw the construction of three major cinema complexes, restaurant and food outlets and pinball parlours.
In March 2002 the Roxy Cinema closed for the last time, after 72 years use as a cinema. In 2004 it was bought by the Palace Group who commenced renovations - gutting the two lower, more recent cinemas and turning it into a nightclub. [6] [1] In March 2004 the Roxy was reopened after being redeveloped into an entertainment complex.
When erected in 1929 the flamboyantly decorated State Theatre was the ultimate public entertainment venue in New South Wales at a time when movie-going audiences were being thrilled by the increasing exuberance of each new cinema. It remained a popular movie venue for tens of thousands of people over many decades and was the scene of many movie ...
George Street is a street in the central business district of Sydney. It was Sydney's original high street , and remains one of the busiest streets in the city centre. It connects a number of the city's most important buildings and precincts.
In 1994, the Dendy Cinemas chain took over The George on George Street, Brisbane and added a second screen to the complex. [11] The two-screen Dendy complex closed in 2008. [12] Dendy opened a cinema at Portside Wharf in Hamilton in 2006. [13] In 2015, Dendy Cinemas committed to a 15-year lease to operate a 10-theatre cinema complex in ...