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The Plaza Theatre was built during a golden age of cinema-going in[Australia and was opened on 11 April 1930. [1] designed as a 2000-seat cinema by Eric Heath for Hoyts. [2] The theatre's organ was built circa 1923 by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company of North Tonawanda, New York and was installed at the Plaza in 1937 from the Wintergarden Theatre ...
The Entertainment Quarter is home to the Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS). [1]AFTRS relocated from its original location in North Ryde to a purpose built building in 2008, [2] located adjacent to Fox Studios Australia and around the corner from the Hoyts Cinema.
Cronulla is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Boasting numerous surf beaches and swimming spots, the suburb attracts both tourists and Greater Sydney residents. Cronulla is 26 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire.
Bass Hill Drive-In Cinema. The first American-style drive-in theatre to open in Australia was the Skyline in the Melbourne suburb of Burwood on 18 February 1954. [2] [3] It was the first of 330 drive-in theatres that would open across Australia.
Ozone Theatres Ltd, formerly Ozone Picture Company and then Ozone Amusements Ltd, was a cinema chain based in Adelaide, South Australia, from 1911 until 1951, when it sold its theatres to Hoyts. It was founded by Hugh Waterman and friends, and was jointly run by him and seven sons, including Clyde Waterman and Sir Ewen McIntyre Waterman.
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 ...
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 film was given a short release at four Hoyts cinemas (including Hoyts Centre) in Sydney, beginning 3rd September 1992, but other bookings were very limited... (It) had a frosty reception from newspaper reviewers at the time of its limited domestic release, which saw only Sydney papers (and the national The Australian) take a look at it.