SYDNEY IN 70MM PART 3

THE

MULTIPLEX

PITT CENTRE

VILLAGE CINEMA CITY

HOYTS ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE

CENTRE ON GEORGE STREET

Greater Union Pitt Centre was located at 232 Pitt Street Sydney and was built on the site of the Liberty and
Gala theatres. A three screen multiplex, the Pitt Centre opened on the 9th April 1976 premiering
Mahogany, The Romantic Englishwoman and Caddie.
The Liberty, formerly the Grand and then the Rialto, was located at 232 Pitt Street Sydney. The Liberty and
Gala were demolished in 1975 for the construction of the Pitt Centre multiplex. A narrow auditorium
seating 683, the Liberty was operated by Metro Cinemas during the 1960s prior to its inclusion within
Greater Union group of city theatres. The Liberty closed on the 30th
January 1975 with Robin Hood as the last film.
The Gala cinema opened on the 22nd December 1959 with The House I
Live In. Previously known as the Hoyts Newsluxe newsreel cinema, the
Gala remained as an alternative and foreign film cinema until its closure
on the 30th January 1975 with Between Wars as the last film.
During the twenty three years as a multiplex, the Pitt Centre screened
seven 70mm presentations with the reissue of the VistaVision classic
Vertigo as its last 70mm presentation. The Pitt Centre closed on the day
May 1999 with film, film, film, film as the last attractions.

The following table lists in date order, the theatre, cinema and or multiplex which presented the FIRST FILM
SIGNIFICANCE in the key city of Sydney
THEATRE / CINEMA
Lyceum
Capitol
Embassy
Plaza
Mayfair
Regent
St James
Plaza
Prince Edward
Plaza
Regent
Plaza
Capitol
Capitol
Plaza
Regent
Palace
Palladium [aka Barclay]
Century
Paris
St James
Liberty
Plaza
Mayfair
Paris
Liberty
Palladium [aka Barclay]
Mayfair
St James
Paris
Paris
Forum
Forum
Century
Forum
Forum
Regent
Hoyts Entertainment Centre
Hoyts Entertainment Centre
Village Cinema City

OPENED
29/12/28
28/12/29
13/09/35
16/04/53
14/05/53
10/12/53
15/04/54
11/11/54
17/12/54
14/07/55
11/08/55
01/09/55
29/09/55
28/10/55
15/12/55
04/06/56
07/03/57
22/03/57
22/08/57
02/10/57
27/02/58
05/04/58
17/09/58
26/12/58
09/12/59
02/03/61
30/06/61
06/06/62
18/01/63
06/06/63
10/10/63
10/07/64
16/09/65
01/06/67
13/12/68
20/12/74
10/04/75
27/10/77
13/07/78
07/05/82

FORMAT
SOUND

COLOR & SOUND

TECHNICOLOR
3D STEREOSCOPIC
3D STEREOPHONIC

CINEMASCOPE
CINEMASCOPE
VISTARAMA
VISTAVISION
SUPERSCOPE

CINEMASCOPE
CINEMASCOPE
CINEMASCOPE
CINEMASCOPE
CINEMASCOPE
CINEMASCOPE 55
NATURAMA

REGALSCOPE
TECHNIRAMA
TODD-AO
PANAVISION

CAMERA 65

CINERAMA
TODD-AO
SUPER TECHNIRAMA

SUPER PANAVISION
TECHNISCOPE
SUPER PANAVISION
ULTRA PANAVISION
PANAVISION 70

GRANDEUR 70
ULTRA PANAVISION
PANAVISION 70
D150
CAMERA 65

SENSURROUND
QUINTAPHONIC
70MM DOLBY STEREO
SOUND 360
3D STEREOVISION

FIRST FILM SIGNIFICANCE

The Jazz Singer
On With the Show!
Becky Sharp
Bwana Devil
House of Wax
The Robe FOX
Knights of the Round Table MGM
The Command
White Christmas
Underwater
The High and the Mighty WARNER BROS
Sitting Bull UNITED ARTISTS
The Black Shield of Falworth UNIVERSAL
The Violent Men COLUMBIA
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea WALT DISNEY
Carousel
The Maverick Queen
Stagecoach To Fury
The Monte Carlo Story
Around the World In 80 Days [35mm]
Jailhouse Rock
Raintree County [35mm]
This Is Cinerama
South Pacific
Solomon and Sheba
The Big Fisherman [35mm]
The Pharaohs Woman
West Side Story
Mutiny on the Bounty [35mm]
Taras Bulba [35mm]
The King and I
The Fall of the Roman Empire
In Harms Way
The Bible: In the Beginning
BEN HUR [70mm]
Earthquake
Tommy
Star Wars
Damnation Alley
Coming at Ya!

Noteworthy is TARAS BULBA opened in 35mm. The first

Panavision 70 release in Sydney was IN HARMS WAY.
The Hoyts Plaza theatre was planned for D150, however, due to
the booking commitments of Cinerama, the installation did not
occur. THE BIBLE and PATTON were presented in 70mm at the
Todd-AO equipped Hoyts Century and Hoyts Mayfair theatres.
Click here to view proposed D150 Schematic

PITT CENTRE
The following table are the 70mm films released at the Greater Union Pitt Centre and Lyceum theatre
GREATER UNION PITT CENTRE
Brainstorm
The Mission season includes move over to George
Cry Freedom
Arachnophobia
Little Buddha
Gettysburg
Vertigo VistaVision reissue

OPENED
09/12/83
04/12/86
18/02/88
26/12/90
28/07/94
08/09/94
10/07/97

CLOSED
19/01/84
02/09/87
15/06/88
07/04/91
07/09/94
19/10/94

WEEKS
6
39
17
15
7
6

LYCEUM THEATRE
Young Sherlock Holmes
Top Gun season includes move over to George

OPENED
19/12/85
31/07/86

CLOSED
05/03/86
02/09/87

WEEKS
111
57

After the closure of the 70mm equipped Forum and

Paramount cinemas, Greater Union exhibited their key
city 70mm releases at the Barclay cinema, Pitt Centre and
State theatre. The Lyceum theatre which was a late entry
into 70mm Dolby Stereo, was equipped during the
development and subsequent construction of the four
screen Greater Union Centre on George Street.

Formerly known as the Lyceum Hall

the Lyceum was rebuilt in 1918 as
the Hoyts Lyceum Theatre and in
1928 when under the direction of Union Theatres, showcased The Jazz Singer on the
29th December 1928. The Lyceum was plagued by numerous fires with the last in 1964
destroying the building interior. Reopening in 1966 with Doctor in Clover, the Lyceum
premiered many Reserved Seating Engagements in 35mm, Half a Sixpence, Oliver,
Winning and Anne of the Thousands Days. The Lyceum was equipped for Dolby Stereo
in 1983 with the reissue of Fantasia,
presented two 70mm releases and closed on
the 29/6/88 with The Whales of August.

SYDNEY IN 70MM PART 3 PITT CENTRE

The chapters for Sydney in 70mm Part 3 have been
written to list the film releases from the opening date of
each of the four key city multiplex in Sydney, the single
screen 70mm releases, significant cinema events and
opening dates of the suburban multiplex for each year.
1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

11/11/78 The Mayfair theatre which premiered

South Pacific and The Sound of Music in Todd-AO
closed after the 1978 live theatre production of
Crown International starring June Salter.
13/12/79 Hoyts Warringah Mall Twin opened
with Alien and The Muppet Movie.
27/01/80 The Paris theatre which premiered
Around the World in 80 Days, closed in 1980 after
the live stage musical Boys Own McBeth.
25/09/80 The seven screen Hoyts Entertainment
Centre was renamed the Hoyts Centre.
31/10/80 The Pitt Centre advertised films in
Dolby Stereo with Xanadu being the first as a
move over from the Lyceum theatre.
13/12/80 the Forum closed as a Greater Union
cinema on the 30/04/80 with Jesus as its last
attraction and was reopened the following day as
Daves Encore Movies screening retrospective
film including 70mm to the 13/12/80. The Forum
then screened Asian film until its closure in 1982.
28/08/81 Stanmore Twin cinema opened with
S.O.B. plus Being There and Elephant Man plus
My Brilliant Career.
07/05/82 three dimensional films returned in
1982 with the release of Cominat Ya! and the
reissue of House of Wax at Village Cinema City.
24/03/83 Hoyts Fairfield Twin opened with
Gandhi and Tootsie as the premiere film.
01/05/83 the Sydney Entertainment Centre
officially opened.
30/06/83 the Rapallo and Paramount closed
25/08/83 Beverly Hills Twin opened with
Twilight Zone plus Night Shift and Tootsie plus
Absence of Malice.
15/12/83 Village Triple Sylvania opened and
premiered Never Say Never Again in conjunction with the State theatre.

1979
04/01/79
11/01/79
18/01/79
25/01/79
01/02/79
08/02/79
15/02/79
22/02/79
01/03/79
08/03/79
15/03/79
22/03/79
29/03/79
05/04/79
12/04/79
19/04/79
26/04/79
03/05/79
10/05/79
17/05/79
24/05/79
31/05/79
07/06/79
14/06/79
21/06/79
28/06/79
05/07/79
12/07/79
19/07/79
26/07/79
02/08/79
09/08/79
16/08/79
23/08/79
30/08/79
06/09/79
13/09/79
20/09/79
27/09/79
04/10/79
11/10/79
18/10/79
25/10/79
01/11/79
08/11/79
15/11/79
22/11/79
29/11/79
06/12/79

VILLAGE
CINEMA CITY
Malibu Beach

GREATER UNION
PITT CENTRE

The Class of Miss MacMichael

Money Mover
Zero to Sixty
Through the Looking Glass
Who is Killing Great Chefs Europe
Somebody Killed Her Husband
Newsfront plus Caddie

Love at First Bite

Hurricane

Heaven Can Wait

Silent Witness
Same Time Next Year

Worlds Full of Married Men

The Inlaws

The Champ
A Little Romance

The Main Event

Tilt

Just a Gigolo
The Wanderers
The Amityville Horror
The In Laws plus Goodbye Girl
A Little Romance move over
Gigolo plus Man Who Fell to Earth
The Frisco Kid
Avalanche Express
Just a Little Inconvenience
The Legacy
California Dreaming plus Tilt
Eagles Wing
KISS: Attack of the Phantoms
The Journalist
Murder By Decree

California Suite
Silent Partner
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The Cheap Detective

The First Great Train Robbery
Ashanti
Slow Dancing Big City
Halloween

The Wanderers plus Mad Max

Every Which Way Loose plus Hooper

A Wedding
Odds and Evans
The Last of the Knuckle men
The Long Weekend
Carrie plus Audrey Rose
Born again
Coming Home plus Annie Hall
Moonraker
Butch & Sundance: The Early Days
The China Syndrome
Papillon - reissue
Wilderness Family
Humanoid
Hair

The Wiz - Barclay

Mission Galattica - Forum

Hardcore
Tim
Assault on Precinct 13
Midnight Express plus Serpico
Lost and Found

My Brilliant Career

Life of Brian

Escape From Alcatraz

The Prisoner of Zenda

Coming Home plus Annie Hall

Norma Rae
See How She Runs
The Kids Are Alright
Fedora
Apocalypse Now
Comes a Horseman
Rocky 2
Nightwing
Hot Stuff
Ravagers
Alien
Escape to Athena
The Muppet Movie
Bear Island

Days of Heaven State 2

Saturday Night Fever plus Grease - Barclay

2001: A Space Odyssey - Forum

Im for the Hippopotamus

The Little Convict
Seakiller
Birth of The Beatles

27/12/79

Colour
Colour
Colour
Colour

The Deer Hunter - State

2001: A Space Odyssey - Paramount

In Search of Alicia

Cathys Child

I Never Promised You Rose Garden

An Unmarried Woman
Coming Home
Piranha
Dawn!
Watership Down
Magic

Elvis The Movie

Ice Castles
Spiderman Strikes Back
The New Adventures of Heidi

The Night

13/12/79
20/12/79

Foul Play

Salty

King of the Gypies

The Never Dead

SINGLE SCREEN
70MM

Jaws 2 move over

Girl Friends
The Odd Angry Shot
House Calls m/o
Every Which Way But Loose m/o
The Thirty Nine Steps

HOYTS
ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
The Fury

Star Trek - Paramount

Scum

70mm in London and released in 35mm in Sydney

70mm reissue in Sydney
New 70mm release in Sydney
Sensurround

Village Cinema City

Greater Union Pitt Centre
Hoyts Entertainment Centre
Greater Union George Street

51
13
58
0

SIGNIFICANT MULTIPLEX DATES

Mayfair Theatre which premiered South Pacific, closed as a Hoyts cinema in 1977. The Mayfair was reverted to live
theatre and after a successful season in 1978 of Crown Matrimonial, the Mayfair closed in 1979 for demolition.
Hoyts Warringah Mall Twin opened on the 13th December 1979 with The Muppet Movie and Alien.
1978 No 1 Box Office

FILM
Deer Hunter
The Champ
Hair
The Wiz
Mission Galattica

Days of Heaven
Apocalypse Now

Alien
The Muppet Movie
Star Trek

OPENED
13/04/79
03/08/79
23/08/79
24/08/79
23/08/79
02/11/79
15/11/79
06/12/79
13/12/79
21/12/79

CLOSED
23/08/79
06/12/79
21/11/79
13/09/79
11/10/79
06/12/79
16/07/80
12/03/80
20/02/80
27/03/80

LONDON IN 70MM The Deer Hunter [27/02/79 ABC Shaftesbury Avenue], The Champ [10/07/79 Empire], Hair [17/07/79 Dominion] and
Days of Heaven [01/06/79 Plaza] opened in 70mm in London and 35mm in Sydney. Star Trek was presented in 70mm at the Paramount
cinema in Sydney later into its fourteen [14] week season.

WK
19
18
13
3
7
5
35
14
10
14

1980

VILLAGE
CINEMA CITY

03/01/80
10/01/80
17/01/80

10

24/01/80
31/01/80
07/02/80
14/02/80
21/02/80
28/02/80
06/03/80
13/03/80
20/03/80
27/03/80
03/04/80
10/04/80
17/04/80
24/04/80
01/05/80
08/05/80
15/05/80
22/05/80
29/05/80
05/06/80
12/06/80
19/06/80
26/06/80
03/07/80
10/07/80
17/07/80

GREATER UNION
PITT CENTRE

Bloodline
The Rose
And Justice For All
A Very Big Withdrawl
Manhattan

Meteor
The Buddy Holly Story
Starting Over

The China Syndrome

Kramer vs Kramer
Norma Rae
La Cage Aux Folles
Breaking Away

Time After Time

Salems Lot

Scavenger Hunt
Mad Max plus The Wanderers

The Last Married Couple

Scavenger Hunt plus

Im for the Hippopotamus
Tom Horn
Yanks

Little Miss Marker

Midway plus Rollercoaster - Forum

The Black Hole - Barclay

The Electric Horseman - Paramount

1941
Smurfs and the Magic Flute

Voices
Being There
The Jerk
Friday the 13th
Crusing

Mad Max

The Fog
Quadrophenia
Don Giovanni
The Medusa Touch

Breaker Morant
The Man with Bogarts Face
Bronco Billy

28/08/80
04/09/80
11/09/80

Kiss: Attack of the Phantoms

Fame
Urban Cowboy
Manganinnie
Caddyshack
The Earthling

Cant Stop the Music - Paramount

All That Jazz

Foxes
Last Embrace
The Black Stallion
The Bitch
The Empire Strikes Back
The Final Countdown
The Chain Reaction
Son of Superbug
Thief of Bagdad

Russian Adventure - Forum

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. FuManchu

C.H.O.M.P.S
Chapter Two
The Club

The Long Riders

The Big Brawl

Xanadu move over

The Hunter

Honeysuckle Rose
Dressed to Kill move over

Ryans Daughter

04/12/80

Superman 2

Flying High

11/12/80
18/12/80

Battle Beyond the Stars

25/12/80

A Change of Seasons
The Shinning move over

27/11/80

Colour
Colour
Colour
Colour

SINGLE SCREEN
70MM

Where Time Bagan

The Shoemaker and the Elves

24/07/80
31/07/80
07/08/80
14/08/80
21/08/80

18/09/80
25/09/80
02/10/80
09/10/80
16/10/80
23/10/80
30/10/80
13/11/80
20/11/80

HOYTS
ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE

Stir

Brubaker
Yesterdays Hero
The Changeling
The Onion Field
Monster
Inferno
The Sea Wolves
Rocky plus Rocky 2
The Blue Lagoon
The Mountain Men
Hopscotch
La Luna
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Divine Madness - State

Thats Entertainment 2 - Forum

Seems Like Old Times

Fatty Finn
Dogs of War
Motel Hell
The Mouse and His Child

70mm in London and released in 35mm in Sydney

70mm reissue in Sydney
New 70mm release in Sydney
Sensurround

Village Cinema City

Greater Union Pitt Centre
Hoyts Entertainment Centre
Greater Union George Street

31
14
49
0

SIGNIFICANT MULTIPLEX DATES

Paris Theatre which premiered Around the World in 80 Days, closed in 1980 after the stage show Boys Own McBeth
Hoyts Entertainment Centre was renamed the Hoyts Centre on the 25th September 1980 due to the construction of the
new concert venue in Sydney. The Sydney Entertainment Centre opened on the 1st May 1983.
Pitt Centre advertised Xanadu in Dolby Stereo on the 31st October 1980 after the films move over from Lyceum theatre.
1979 No 1 Box Office

FILM
The Rose
Midway plus Rollercoaster
The Black Hole
The Electric Horseman
Cant Stop the Music
Fame
The Empire Strikes Back
Russian Adventure FT70
The Blue Lagoon
Divine Madness

OPENED
31/01/80
07/03/80
28/03/80
28/03/80
20/06/80
01/08/80
06/08/80
25/08/80
27/11/80
05/12/80

CLOSED
17/09/80
20/03/80
26/06/80
19/06/80
27/11/80

WK
33
2
13
12
23

04/02/81
28/08/80
18/03/81
12/02/81

26
1
17
10

LONDON IN 70MM Electric Horseman [13/03/80 Empire]

Fame [23/7/80 Empire] and The Blue Lagoon [16/10/80
Odeon Leicester Square] opened in London in 70mm and in
35mm in Sydney. For the release in Sydney, Fame and The
Blue Lagoon were released in 35mm four track magnetic.

1981

VILLAGE
CINEMA CITY

01/01/81
08/01/81
15/01/81
22/01/81
29/01/81
05/02/81
12/02/81
19/02/81
26/02/81
05/03/81
12/03/81
19/03/81
26/03/81
02/04/81
09/04/81
16/04/81
23/04/81
30/04/81
07/05/81

14/05/81
21/05/81
28/05/81
04/06/81
11/06/81
18/06/81
25/06/81
02/07/81
09/07/81
16/07/81
23/07/81
30/07/81

GREATER UNION
PITT CENTRE

27/08/81
03/09/81
10/09/81
17/09/81
24/09/81
01/10/81
08/10/81
15/10/81
22/10/81
29/10/81
05/11/81
12/11/81
19/11/81
26/11/81
03/12/81
10/12/81
17/12/81
24/12/81
31/12/81

Colour
Colour
Colour
Colour

SINGLE SCREEN
70MM

My Bodyguard
Close Encounters Special Edition

Doctor Zhivago - Lyceum

Rough Cut
The Elephant Man

Stardust Memories
Holly Moses
The Stuntman
The Secret Policemans Ball

Ordinary People

The Jazz Singer - State

Raging Bull
Tribute
Stardust Memories plus Annie Hall
Earthquake - Barclay

Any Which Way You Can

Divine Madness move over
Somewhere In Time
The Runner Stumbles

The Miracle Worker

Gloria
Terror Train
Tess
Used Cars
Kagemusha
Prom Night

Fort Apache: The Bronx

9 to 5

Doctor Zhivago - Barclay

Grease plus
Xanadu - Ascot
The Jazz Singer - Paramount

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Popeye move over

The Party plus Some Like It Hot

Final Conflict
Long Good Friday

Road Games

Its My Turn
Loophole

Loving Couples

Flash Gordon move over

Blood Beach

Willie & Phil

Night Games
Thief
Boogey Man
La Cage Aux Folles 1 plus 2
Happy Birthday to Me

The Four Seasons

Angel of Vengeance
Private Benjamin move over

Gallipoli
Outland and Excalibur move over
S.O.B. move over

Nice Dreams
Eyewitness
Carbon Copy
Caveman
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Stir Crazy
Supersnooper
Cannonball Run
Roller Boogie

Shogun

Winter of Our Dreams

Scanners move over

The Killing of Angel Street
The Fan
All Night Long
Puberty Blues
So Fine
Zorro Swings Again move over

Mommie Dearest
California Dolls

70mm in London and released in 35mm in Sydney

70mm reissue in Sydney
New 70mm release in Sydney
Sensurround

Altered States - Rapallo

Outland - Ascot
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Paramount

Chariots of Fire
Heavens Gate
Eye of the Needle
Escape From NY
Apocalypse Now - reissue

Endless Love move over

AC/DC Let There Be Rock

Wolfen
Escape To Victory
Kentucky Fried Movie m/o
Urgh

The Competition

Oliver! FT70
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Spiderman Dragon Challenge
Raise the Titanic
La Cage Aux Folles 2
The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Exterminator
The Octagon

06/08/81
13/08/81
20/08/81

HOYTS
ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE

Dragonslayer

Dead and Buried

Hoodwink
American Pop
The Way We Were
An Eye For An Eye
Roar
Ordinary People move over
For Your Eyes Only
On Any Sunday 2
The French Lieutenants Woman
Great Muppet Caper
Stripes
Who Finds a Friend Finds Treasure
Shock Treatment
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Village Cinema City

Greater Union Pitt Centre
Hoyts Centre
Greater Union George Street

2001: A Space Odyssey - Barclay

29
14
65
0

SIGNIFICANT MULTIPLEX DATES

Forum Cinema Greater Union closed the Forum on the 30/04/80 with Jesus as its last attraction and was reopened the
following day, 01/05/80 as Daves Encore Movies screening retrospective film including 70mm to the 13/12/80. The Forum
then screened Asian film during 1981 up to its final closure the following year in 1982.
Stanmore Twin Cinema opened on 28th August with S.O.B. plus Being There and Elephant Man plus My Brilliant Career.
1980 No 1 Box Office

1981
Close Encounters
The Jazz Singer
Earthquake - Sensurround

Tess
Oliver! FT70
Raise the Titanic
Altered States
Outland
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Heavens Gate

OPENED
22/01/81
12/02/81
27/02/81
19/03/81
30/04/81
07/05/81
31/07/81
07/08/81
14/08/81
24/09/81

CLOSED
11/03/81
07/05/81
19/03/81
05/08/81
03/06/81
17/06/81
20/09/81
08/10/81
02/12/82
07/10/81

WK
7
12
3
20
5
6
7
9
68
2

LONDON IN 70MM Five films opened in London in 70mm and

were released in 35mm in Sydney. Tess opened in London at
the Empire on the 9th April 1981, Raise the Titanic opened at
the Leicester Square Theatre on the 12th November 1980,
Altered States opened at the Warner and Shaftesbury Avenue
on the 9th July 1981, Outland opened at the Warner and
Shaftesbury Avenue on the 27th August 1981 and Heavens
Gate opened at the Odeon Haymarket on 10th September 1981.

1982
07/01/82
14/01/82
21/01/82
28/01/82
04/02/82
11/02/82
18/02/82
25/02/82
04/03/82
11/03/82
18/03/82
25/03/82

VILLAGE
CINEMA CITY

Body Heat
Heatwave
Paradise In Paris

Kill and Kill Again

Butterfly
Comin at Ya! 3D
Arthur move over

07/10/82
14/10/82
21/10/82
28/10/82
04/11/82
11/11/82
18/11/82
25/11/82
02/12/82
09/12/82
16/12/82

Best of Friends

Ragtime
Neighbors
Star Struck

Victor Victoria

Star Wars - reissue

Hardly Working
Hangar 18

Chanel Solitaire

Lady Chatterleys Lover

American Werewolf London m/o

Porkys

Sharkys Machine move over

Gregorys Girl
House of Wax 3D

Napoleon State FT70

Sleeping Beauty State FT70

Quest For Fire

Enter the Ninja
Shoot the Moon

Taps
Death Wish 2
Making Love

Missing
Vice Squad
Hot Bubblegum
Force Five

Far East
Friday 13th plus
The Exorcist move over
This Is Elvis
Evilspeak m/o
Running on Empty move our

Rocky 3
The Pirate Movie
Beast Within plus Swamp Thing
Band of the Run
Paradise
Banana Joe
Gullivers Travels
Ragge dy A n n

The Thing

The Love Bug

A Midsummer Nights Sex Dream

Young Doctors in Love
Victor Victoria move over
Monkey Grip
Firefox move over

Class of 1984

Norman Loves Rose

Crosstalk
Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid
Norman Loves Rose plus Gregorys Girl
Partners
Monty Python at Hollywood Bowl
Fame

Heavy Metal
The Beast Master move over
Summerlovers
Megaforce move over
Blade Runner

23/12/82
30/12/82

On Golden Pond
True Confessions

Halloween 2

26/08/82
02/09/82
09/09/82
16/09/82
23/09/82
30/09/82

Paternity
First Monday in October
Fame
Reds
Whose Life Is It Anyway

Absence of Malice
The Man From Snowy River

15/04/82
22/04/82
29/04/82
06/05/82

12/08/82
19/08/82

SINGLE SCREEN
70MM

History of the Word Part 1

Fear No Evil plus Final Exam
Only When I Laugh

Blow Out

Freedom
Mad Max 2 move over

17/06/82
24/06/82
01/07/82
08/07/82
15/07/82
22/07/82
29/07/82
05/08/82

HOYTS
ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE

Rich and Famous

01/04/82
08/04/82

13/05/82
20/05/82
27/05/82
03/06/82
10/06/82

GREATER UNION
PITT CENTRE
Continental Divide

Wacko

Poltergeist move over

The Year of Living Dangerously

Poltergeist - Paramount
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Barclay
Star Trek 2 - State

The Amateur
One From the Heart
Christiana F.
Barbarosa
I Ought To Be In Pictures
The Boat
Visiting Hours
Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip
Private Lessons
Lonely Hearts
Piranha 2 Flying Killers
We of the Never Never
Game of Death 2
Rocky plus Rocky 2
Who Dares Wins
The Sword and the Sorcerer
Trail of the Pink Panther
Annie
Conan the Barbarian
Ginger Meggs

ET - State
Pink Floyd: The Wall - Barclay
Tron - Rapallo
Best Little Whorehouse Texas - Paramount

The World According to Garp

Peter Pan
Night Shift

Colour
Colour
Colour
Colour

70mm in London and released in 35mm in Sydney

70mm reissue in Sydney
New 70mm release in Sydney
3D Stereovision

Village Cinema City

Greater Union Pitt Centre
Hoyts Centre
Greater Union George Street

33
26
53
0

SIGNIFICANT MULTIPLEX DATES

3D STEREOVISION three dimensional films returned in 1982 with the release of Cominat Ya! and the reissue of the
House of Wax at Village Cinema City. Hoyts, Greater Union and Village cinemas presented 3D films during the 80s which
included the premiere of Parasite at the Hoyts Centre, Jaws 3D at the Barclay cinema and Friday the 13th Part 3 at the
Rapallo cinema.
1981 No 1 Box Office

1982
Comin at Ya! 3D
Napoleon FT70
Sleeping Beauty FT70
Quest For Fire
House of Wax 3D
Poltergeist
Rocky 3
Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan
The Thing
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
Pink Floyd The Wall
Tron
Annie
The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
Blade Runner

OPENED
06/05/82
24/05/82
27/05/82
10/06/82
08/07/82
06/08/82
12/08/82
13/08/82
20/08/82
26/11/82
03/12/82
03/12/82
09/12/80
09/12/82
16/12/82

CLOSED
30/06/82
29/05/52
27/05/82
28/07/82
15/09/82
24/02/83
26/01/83
21/10/82
14/10/82
23/06/83
03/03/83
10/02/83
02/03/83
17/02/83
20/04/83

WK
8
1
1
7
10
29
24
10
8
30
13
10
12
10
18

LONDON IN 70MM Three films released in 1982 opened

in London in 70mm and in 35mm in Sydney. The Thing
opened in London at the Plaza on the 26th August 1982,
Tron opened at the Odeon Leicester Square on the 21st
October 1982 and Blade Runner opened at the Warner and
ABC Shaftesbury Avenue on the 9th September 1982.

1983
06/01/83
13/01/83
20/01/83
27/01/83
03/02/83
10/02/83
17/02/83
24/02/83
03/03/83
10/03/83
17/03/83
24/03/83
31/03/83
07/04/83
14/04/83
21/04/83
28/04/83
05/05/83

12/05/83
19/05/83
26/05/83
02/06/83
09/06/83
16/06/83
23/06/83
30/06/83
07/07/83

14/07/83
21/07/83
28/07/83
04/08/83
11/08/83
18/08/83
25/08/83

VILLAGE
CINEMA CITY

GREATER UNION
PITT CENTRE

First Blood move over

The Clinic
Diva
Table For Five
Best Friends move over

Fighting Back
Lone Wolf McQuade
Amityville 2 The Possession
Hostage
They Call Me Bruce

Halloween 3
Personal Best

Losin It

Breathless move over

My Favourite Year
Stand On It
Flying High 2 move over
Twilight Zone
Yellowbeard move over
Valley Girl
Officer and Gentleman move over

22/09/83

Man of Flowers

29/09/83
06/10/83
13/10/83
20/10/83
27/10/83

Zelig
Raiders plus Rocky 3 move over
Around the World in 80 Days
Mr Mom move over
Flesh For Frankenstein 3D

03/11/83
10/11/83

The Killing of America

The Lonely Lady
Porkys 1 plus Porkys 2
Mad Max plus Mad Max 2
Yor
Waitress
Sudden Impact

29/12/83

Colour
Colour
Colour
Colour

Frances

Fantasia reissue move over

Song of the South plus Dumbo

Moving Out
Love Sick
High Road to China move over
Now and Forever

Porkys 2 move over

15/12/83
22/12/83

Kitty and the Bagman

The Missionary move over

Sophies Choice
Class Reunion

Smash Palace

01/09/83
08/09/83
15/09/83

17/11/83
24/11/83
01/12/83
08/12/83

HOYTS
ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
Six Weeks
Hanky Panky

The Soldier
Author Author
Still of the Night
The Entity
Shogun Assassin
The Verdict
Tootsie
Gandhi
That Championship Season
Midnight Express
Monsignor
Creepshow
Tough Enough
Things Are Tough All Over
Local Hero
Empire Strikes Back - reissue
The Black Stallion Returns
Secret of Nimh
Zapped
Evil Dead

Flying High 2 move over

Officer and a Gentleman move over

Flashdance
Psycho 2

Friday the 13th 3D - Rapallo

The Dark Crystal - Lyceum

The Man With the Deadly Lens

The Last American Virgin
10 to Midnight
Kiss Me Goodbye

ET move over

SINGLE SCREEN
70MM

Raiders plus Poltergeist - Barclay

King of Comedy
ET move over
The Return of Captain Invincible
Parasite 3D plus Saturday the 14th
Dance of Life
Without a Trace
The Wicked Lady
Alone in the Dark
War Games
Private Lessons
Phar Lap
Blue Thunder
My Tutor
Dusty
Treasure of the Four Crowns 3D
Krull
2001: A Space Odyssey - Barclay

The Concrete Jungle

BMX Bandits
The Meaning of Life move over
Class
National Lampoons Vacation m/o

The Meaning of Life move over

The Hunger

Brainstorm
Staying Alive

The Pirates of Penzance

1990 The Bronx Warriors plus
The Slumber Party Massacre
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Careful He Might Hear You
Educating Rita
Hercules

Raiders plus Rocky 3 - Ascot

Comeback
The Return of the Jedi
Brimstone & Treacle
Spring Break
Man, Woman and Child
The New Barbarians
Octopussy
Spacehunter 3D
Sahara

Jaws 3D - Barclay

The Outsiders
Bush Christmas
Molly

70mm in London and released in 35mm in Sydney

70mm reissue in Sydney
New 70mm release in Sydney
3D Stereovision

Village Cinema City

Greater Union Pitt Centre
Hoyts Centre
Greater Union George Street

45
19
62
0

SIGNIFICANT MULTIPLEX DATES

Hoyts Fairfield Twin opened on the 24th March 1983 with Tootsie and Gandhi as its opening attractions.
Sydney Entertainment Centre officially opened on the 1st May 1983
Rapallo - closed on the 23rd June and the Paramount closed 30th June for construction of the Centre on George Street.
Beverly Hills Twin - opened on 25th August 1983 with Twilight Zone plus Night Shift and Tootsie plus Absence of Malice.
Village Triple Sylvania opened on the 15th December 1983 premiering Never Say Never Again with the State theatre.
1982 No 1 Box Office

1983
Friday the 13th Part 3 - 3D
The Entity
Gandhi
The Dark Crystal
Parasite 3D
WarGames
Blue Thunder
Treasure of the Four Crowns 3D
Around the World in 80 Days
Flesh For Frankenstein 3D
Return of the Jedi
Spacehunter 3D
Jaws 3 3D
Brainstorm
Staying Alive

OPENED
11/02/83
17/02/83
10/03/83
22/04/83
07/07/83
04/08/83
18/08/83
25/08/83
14/10/83
27/10/83
27/10/83
01/12/83
02/12/83
09/12/83
09/12/83

CLOSED
31/03/83
13/04/83
28/09/83
01/09/83
10/08/83
26/10/83
26/10/83
21/09/83
27/10/83
21/12/83
11/04/84
04/01/84
09/02/84
19/01/84
23/02/84

WK
7
8
29
19
5
12
10
4
2
8
24
5
10
6
11

LONDON IN 70MM Six films released in 1983 opened in

London in 70mm and in 35mm in Sydney. The Entity
opened in London at the Odeon Leicester Square on the
30th September 1982, Gandhi opened at the Odeon
Leicester Square on the 3rd December 1982, The Dark
Crystal opened at the Plaza on the 17th February 1983,
WarGames opened in London at the Odeon Leicester
Square on the 18th August 1983, Blue Thunder opened at
the Classic Haymarket on the 25th August 1983, Staying
Alive opened at the Empire on the 22nd September 1983
and Around the World in 80 Days was reissued in Sydney.

SYDNEY IN 70MM THE MULTIPLEX

1979 1983
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
TOTAL

70MM
5
5
3
8
2
23

REISSUE
3
2
5
3
4
17

TOTAL
8
7
8
11
6
40

During the period of the cinema multiplex between

1979 and 1983, there were forty [40] 70mm releases in
Sydney city cinemas. In 1979 the double feature of
Grease in 70mm and Saturday Night Fever ran for a five
[5] week season at the Barclay cinema and 2001: A
Space Odyssey returned for limited engagements at the
Paramount and Forum cinemas.
In 1980 two films were reissued and
presented for the first time in 70mm.
Russian Adventure and Thats
Entertainment Part 2 screened at
Daves Encore Forum cinema.
In 1981 Earthquake
returned in 70mm at
the Barclay cinema,
Oliver! was reissued
in 70mm at the
Hoyts Centre, 2001:
A Space Odyssey
returned for another
limited season and
Doctor Zhivago was
reissued in 35mm
Dolby Stereo at the
Lyceum theatre.
In 1982 Star Wars was reissued at the Hoyts Centre, Napoleon
[Sydney Opera House] and Sleeping Beauty [State] were reissued for
the first time in 70mm.

In 1983 Empire Strikes Back returned to the

Hoyts Centre, Raiders of the Lost Ark plus
Poltergeist screened at the Barclay and
Raiders of the Lost Ark plus Rocky 3 at the
Ascot. Also 2001: A Space Odyssey was
reissued in 70mm at the Barclay cinema.

Also in 1983 Around the World in 80 Days was reissued in Dolby Stereo at Village Cinema City.
In 1983, Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the film
from Elizabeth Taylor and reissued the film
theatrically in a re-edited 143 minute version.
The above editorial notes the film now in Dolby
sound with its opening at Village Cinema City.
Since the original opening of Around the World in
80 Days, the film has been reissued three [3] times
in the key city theatres of Sydney and fitting we
close this chapter of SYDNEY IN 70MM on one of
the greatest films which gave us the wonder and
the screen envelope of the 70mm presentation.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Hoyts Paris 35mm
Hoyts Paris 70mm
Hoyts Plaza 70mm
Village Cinema City 35mm

OPENED
02/10/57
15/08/63
14/08/69
14/10/83

CLOSED
22/11/59
09/10/63
01/10/69
27/10/83

WK
122
8
7
2