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SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Adelaide Regent now in fashion
The closed Regent 3 in is back in
use albeit in a highly modified form.
Fashion retailer Globalize has the entire
first floor including the former main
cinema and grand foyer overlooking
Rundle Mall.
The adjoining former twin cinemas
have not been used since closing in
January 2004 but will become live
venues for the Adelaide Fringe Festival
Adelaide’s once magnificent Regent auditorium re-opened as retail space.
from 19th February to 14th March 2010.
Photo: Colin Flint
Outcry over proposed demolition
“The building is heritage listed NEW SOUTH WALES
The university last month
inside and out and cannot be
announced its intention to demolish Rebirth for old cinemas?
demolished” assures Councillor Julian
Adelaide’s Union Hall theatre as part The National Trust is campaigning
Carbone, who also stated that the
of its $400 million building program. to reopen the architecturally spectacular
preferred buyer would be a cinema
This was met by public outcry, Roxy Parramatta as well as Newtown’s
operator to ensure that the Chelsea
letters to the editor and most recently, historic Hub Theatre. The Spanish
remains as a cinema for future
the formation of a Save the Union Hall style Roxy opened in 1930 and was
generations. Submissions for purchase
Committee and a planned rally. At least sympathetically tripled by Hoyts in the
or lease of the cinema close on
two applications have been made for 1970s, but is now in use as a Nightclub.
February 26.
heritage listing of the 51-year-old The older Hub Theatre at Newtown
building, including one by the National dates further back and was originally
Trust. used for Vaudeville as Clays Bridge
Theatre before being taken over for
movies, and ending its days as an adult
film venue. Now closed the Hub is
currently for sale.

Chelsea Demonstration. Photo: Colin Flint
Magill Windsor on the market
Chelsea saga continues to unfold The Magill (SA) Institute home of
Adelaide’s beleaguered Chelsea the former Windsor Theatre is for sale.
Cinema at Kensington Park, reached
84 years on 24th November. Burnside ACT
Council is proceeding with plans to sell In the nation’s capital city of
the theatre despite significant public Canberra, Hoyts Tuggeranong closed Roof-top Cinema application
objection. on Wednesday 23rd September 2009 Double Bay may get a new roof top
cinema if plans are approved by
A full house on 16th November for with the nearby, all new Hoyts Woden
Woollahra Council. Owners of the
The Boys are Back raised funds for the Extreme Screen opening a few weeks
Village Twin Cinema which closed in
Save the Chelsea Cinema campaign later on Wednesday 28th October.
July 2004, now hope to open the screen
where Scott Hicks made a personal
appearance! Scott has a personal TASMANIA on the roof of the closed theatre building.
connection with the Chelsea having been The State Cinema in North Hobart
a patron in the seventies for the annual now has even more screens with a 6th
Film Event. His film Hearts in Atlantis opened in time for Christmas 2009. All
had its premiere at the cinema in 2001. are digital with only the original
In early December an anonymous auditorium as cinema one with 35mm.
donor pledged $1 million to the Save The freeholds of both the Hobart
the Chelsea Action Group, so it can bid and Launceston Village Cinema
for the historic cinema. Complexes have been put up for sale.

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