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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 ...
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 instrument was originally installed in the Hoyts De Luxe Theatre, Melbourne, then the Hoyts Plaza Theatre, Sydney. [1] [2] The cinema was renamed the Savoy and reopened by the Mayor of Enfield in July 1938. [1] In 1944 Western Suburbs Cinemas Ltd was taken over by Hoyts resulting in a name change to the Hoyts Savoy Theatre. [1] The last ...
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.
505 George Street is a skyscraper that has been approved for construction in Sydney, Australia, on the current Event Cinemas site in George Street. It will be 270-metre (890 ft) tall, with 80-storeys and 507 apartments. [1] It will also include a rooftop restaurant and bar. [1] When finished, it will be the tallest residential building in the ...