It’s because the TV commercials are booked in advance and can’t easily be changed at the last minute (the new release date was only announced by Sony Pictures this morning).
At the Golden Raspberry Awards Cats was the standout worst movie of 2019 winning 6 Razzies. Rebel Wilson was Worst supporting actress.
Palace Cinemas today announced it would close all its complexes across Australia from tomorrow (March 19) for an indefinite period, due to new Federal Government rules banning non-necessary indoor gatherings of 100 or more people to combat against coronavirus.
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The remaining cinemas across Australia, including Hoyts, Village, Event, Reading and independents, closed from midday today under Federal Government directives.
Depending on how long the cinema lockdown will be, I wonder what some movie magazines, like Empire, will be doing in coming months?
Probably still continue for now, with more “film reviews” will be of those on streaming devices, I guess? And maybe more “special issues” - like top 100 lists etc
I was wanting to see the latest 007 flick “No Time To Die” and mystery thriller “The Woman In The Window”…
Surely studios will come to some arrangement in this territory to fast track release to digital / DVD and/or Pay TV?
The fact that this is getting done in the US by NBCUniversal was HUGE news last week, surprised nobody posted about it in here!
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In China, a couple of titles that were due to released in cinemas during the recent Lunar New Year holiday, were available on selected streaming platforms after the latter acquired the rights.
George Lazenby (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) reckons Margot Robbie should be the next 007. Is he kidding?
They can create a female spy who spins off into her own series. I don’t understand why people keep suggesting that 007 needs to be a female.
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The Sydney Film Festival, and the Melbourne International Film Festival, will both go online this year after being initially cancelled due to coronavirus.
That means the only remaining cinemas in Sydney CBD is Dendy at Circular Quay. Otherwise you will have to travel to Hoyts Broadway at the other end of the precinct.
There is the 10 screen Palace Central in Ultimo which is near Central Station.
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Yes, it’s in the Central Park shopping centre.
I have a feeling that they were planning to have cinemas in that redevelopment on George Street too but maybe they’ve changed their mind on that.
I am surprised that Greater Union on George Street Sydney is to be demolished and not be included in the new development site.
It’s Event Cinemas formerly Hoyts. The article says it will contain “a new, boutique cinema”.
shows I should read more carefully. lol.
Im glad there will be some sort of cinemas there - even if it is in a boutique type.
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ABC and SMH stories state there will be two towers, one on the old Hoyts site with the other on the old Greater Union site. Event has said: “There are no plans at this stage to close the George Street cinemas”, and they will reopen when the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. The plans approved by the council are stage 1 with more applications and approvals required, so the cinemas could be open for another couple of years. Four cinemas are planned for the new buildings.
The Hoyts Entertainment Centre is where I remember seeing A Bridge Too Far, Apocalypse Now, and numerous other movies. Sometimes I would have seen all seven movies that were showing. I think it was cinemas five and seven that were the largest, though sadly years later they were chopped up and replaced by smaller cinemas iirc, with the largest cinema in the current complex being in the old Greater Union building, I think.