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Toogoolawah.

Toogoolawah.
ADELAIDE: Work has started on the $3
million upgrade of Her Majesty’s Theatre. All
the seats in the auditorium are being replaced
TOOGOOLAWAH: Toogoolawah Pictures as well as carpets throughout. Air-conditioning
will also be upgraded. The refurbished theatre
in the historic Alexandra Hall had the RI¿FLDO will reopen on May 16 .
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opening of their new NEC digital projection and
upgraded sound equipment on Friday, 21st of TOORAK GARDENS: Screen 3 of the Trak
March. Cinema Centre was closed in early March for
an upgrade.
INDOOROOPILLY: The owner of the current
Eldorado 8 Cinemas proposes to build a new WOODVILLE: Film screenings return to the
mixed use development which includes two Woodville Town Hall for another winter season
residential towers up to 21 storeys, cinema commencing in April.
expansion, new bowling alley, sky bar, ground
Embassy. level retail and open-air cinema GOODWOOD: The Theatre Organ Society of
Australia (South Australian Division) agreed at
a Special General meeting that the 2/12 organ
LOWER WONGA: Sad to report the passing held in storage be offered for sale.
in March of Greg Beer, operator of the Wonga
3 Drive-In Theatre. The theatre had been MOUNT BARKER: Wallis Theatres Outdoor
dismantled and sold due to lack of support. Cinema was held on the lawns of Auchendarroch
House in January and will return next year.
FORTITUDE VALLEY: An open-air cinema
will be part of a $600 million development COOBER PEDY: The Desert Drive-in
to include apartments, retail and hotel space Theatre will stay open after receiving $70,000
proposed for a site bordered by Brunswick in State Government funds to help buy a digital
Street, Alfred Street and Barry Parade. projector. Coober Pedy and Gepps Cross are the
only two drive-ins remaining in the state.
MARYBOROUGH: The former Embassy
Theatre in Ellena Street is on the market LOBETHAL: It was announced that there
for $1.25 million. Retaining its foyer, stage, would be no more movie screenings until
further notice as the theatre does not have digital
proscenium, balcony and original plasterwork, equipment.
it is still quite intact as a theatre despite years of
Embassy. use as a retail store. ADELAIDE: The four Gold Class cinemas to
be built in the former Hoyts Twin in Regent
Arcade - originally given planning consent in
November 2012, have been granted an extension
of time for nine months from January 2 2014
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by the Adelaide City Council.
GEPPS CROSS: Wallis Theatres will remove
22 car spaces from their Mainline Drive-In and
replace it with a grassed section so up to 300
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lawn rather than in their cars.

GLENELG: The $17 million, eight screen
cinema complex has been subject to further
delay due to planning issues. Seating has now
been reduced to 930 from the original 1036.

LOCKLEYS: The West Torrens Council owned
(1925) Windsor Cinema may be demolished
to make way for a car park and toilet block.
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Embassy.
vacant since it closed in August 2012.
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