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The HOYTS Group of companies in Australia and New Zealand includes HOYTS Cinemas, a cinema chain, and Val Morgan, which sells advertising on cinema screens and digital billboards. The company was established by dentist Arthur Russell in Melbourne , Victoria in 1908, showing films in a hired hall.
The Regent held the honour of housing the largest screens for a cinema in Brisbane for many years, and retained its position as the most popular cinema well into the 2000s. In 2001, Hoyts and Greater union merged, forcing Hoyts to surrender its activity on the site due to an Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ruling. The cinemas were ...
Cinema City would later operated by Hoyts before its demolition in 2008. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] In 1993, the renamed Grand Cinemas started expanding their suburban locations, beginning with the launch of their cineplex at Warwick , offering the first suburban cinema complex in Perth's upper northern suburbs (prior to that patrons had to travel to the ...
Alliance Cinemas – after selling its BC locations, it now operates only one theater in Toronto; Cinémas Guzzo – 10 locations and 142 screens in the Montreal area; Cineplex Cinemas – Canada's largest and North America's fifth-largest movie theater company, with 162 locations and 1,635 screens
Since its construction, the cinema has been owned by, among others, the Hoyts cinema group and the Brigidine Sisters (an order of nuns running the adjacent Brigidine College). [9] In the late 1980s the current owners planned to demolish the existing cinema and to redevelop the site.
V-Max cinemas feature enhanced film display, picture quality, and immersive surround sound. The screens at V-Max used to be a minimum width of 25 meters or greater, however, that was lowered to 20 metres in 2010. V-Max cinemas are placed in large auditoriums which feature larger seats, stadium seating and wider arm-rests.
In October 2010, Hoyts announced that it will acquire AMC for an unknown amount. The purchase was completed in November 2010. Hoyts has stated on their website that AMC customers will now have access to a wider variety of films, promotions, competitions and cinema offers. Hoyts have also promised to increase 3D facilities for the cinema chain.
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 .