Hoyts Mid-City
13-27 Manners Street,
Wellington
6011
13-27 Manners Street,
Wellington
6011
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Previously operated by: Amalgamated Theatres Ltd., Hoyts Cinemas
Previous Names: Mid-City Cinema Centre
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Located in the Te Aro district in the south of the city centre, opposite the site of the Roxy Theatre. The Mid-City Cinema Centre was opened by Amalgamated Theatres as a 3-screen cinema in 1987 with seating for 1,261. Cinema 1 had 414-seats, Cinema 2 had 404-seats and Cinema 3 had 443-seats. Two more screens with seating for 123 & 74 were added when it was taken over by Hoyts Cinemas. It was closed in 2007.
The site has been redeveloped into Conservation House(Nokia House), the headquarters of the Department of Conservation.
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The Midcity Cinema Centre was opened by Amalgamated Theatres in 1987 as a replacement of their four older theatres (Kings, Plaza, Lido & Cinerama). The main opening film was ‘The Mission". All 3 screens seated about 450 and were of good design. However it was on the 3rd floor of an office building and there were escalators and passage ways to get up to it. In 1992 two more cinemas were added (120 & 60) and featured behind screen projection. These were on a lower level and were separately promoted as 'art house’ type cinemas. Hoyts suddenly closed these cinemas in 2007 without any prior warning and centered their Wellington operation on their 5 screen Regent on Manners
I assume there was a lift or lifts to get up to the cinemas too?
Opened on 14/4/1982 with 3 screens(1170 seats). Later 5 screens(1104 seats) Closed on 19/8/2009.
Built on the site of the demolished Regent Theatre. Rebuilt and opened as Regent 3, and renamed Hoyts 5 in 1995, and then Hoyts Wellington and hoyts Mid-City and then Regent on Manners.
Hoyts MidCity Wellington was not on the former Regent site but further up Manners St opposite where the old Roxy Theatre stood. It was KO who built a replacement Regent Triple with 3 screens on the site of the former Regent which further up Manners St by James Smith corner with Cuba St. When Hoyts bought Everard Cinemas the deal included the new Regent Triple which they later expanded to 5 screens 10 screens in Wellington. Both complexes closed when Reading opened Courtenay Central.