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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 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.
In 1945, the last year of World War II, there was a box office boom and the British Rank Organisation purchased a half share in Greater Union Theatres. During this time Greater Union acquired the rights of ownership of many theatres across the country including what became the Phoenician Club in Broadway, Sydney in 1943, originally owned by McIntyre's Broadway Theatres and established as a ...
[2] [47] [48] Hoyts and Fox however did not share Griffith's enthusiasm for the establishment of a drive-in theatre, so Griffith subsequently formed a syndicate, Auto Theatres, [2] which decided on a site in the Melbourne suburb of Burwood for Australia's first drive-in theatre. Construction proceeded through the latter half of 1953 from plans ...
As of 2019, EVT owns the largest cinema chains in Australia and New Zealand. Its cinema brands include Event Cinemas, BCC, CineStar, Greater Union, GU Film House, Moonlight Cinema, and the Sydney State Theatre. Event also owns over 60 hotels worldwide, operating more than 10,000 rooms, under the subsidiaries Atura Hotels, Rydges Hotels ...
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 ...
The Sydney Trocadero was closed on 5 February 1971; [2] the building was demolished and replaced by a modernist cinema complex owned by the Hoyts group. 1,500 Guests Jostle At Artists' Ball - Hundreds of people thronged the pavements outside the Trocadero last night to watch the guests, many of whom were wellknown cartoonists, artists, actors ...