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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 ...
The venture includes cinemas under the Village Cinemas, Greater Union, Birch, Carrol and Coyle and Event Cinemas brands. Event Cinemas did not exist at the time Australian Theatres was formed, but because it is operated by Greater Union, it became part of the group as soon as it was established. [citation needed]
The company was formed to take over running of the cinema after the previous tenants, Union Theatres (the precursor to Greater Union), had defaulted on their lease. [4] In their early decades the company operated a number of cinemas in Perth, including the Grand Theatre, the Theatre Royal, and the Princess Theatre in Fremantle.
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Village also went into its first partnership with Greater Union to build a Geelong drive-in, and by the beginning of the 1960s, operated 27 drive-in theatres throughout the states of Victoria and Tasmania. Village Drive-In then began to expand throughout the rest of Australia, particularly after the company began adding so-called "hard-top ...
Wallis Cinemas, formerly Wallis Theatres, is a family-owned South Australian company that operates cinema complexes in greater Adelaide and regional South Australia. Wallis Theatres works in conjunction with Big Screen Advertising , a company which distributes and screens advertisements at cinemas.