CAARP
Cinema and Audience Research Project

Hoyts Midcity was the second major complex built by Hoyts in Melbourne. It opened in 1970 the year after the Hoyts Cinema Centre, Melbourne just up the road. These two complexes were built to replace the large single screen cinemas that Hoyts were operating in the CBD: Regent, Plaza, Esquire, Paris, Atheneum and earlier, the Capitol.

It opened as a twin and the theatres were allocated the numbers 4 & 5. This was the continuation of Hoyts Cinemas One, Two and Three that were located at the Hoyts Cinema Centre, Melbourne one block up the street. Tora, Tora, Tora was the opening attraction.

Film Weekly (1971) records a seating capacity of 750 and 932.

In 1976 Hoyts took part of the foyer and turned it into the third screen naming it cinema 6, cinema 4 was renamed cinema 7. Capacity 932, 750, 221. A few years later Cinema Centre added a forth screen .

Hoyts closed the site in 1991.

References
Cinema & Theatre Historical Society 1997, Cinema index : Melbourne cinemas, suburban cinemas, Victorian drive-ins. CATHS, Victoria.

Kilderry, D: http://www.drive-insdownunder.com.au/projectionbooths/midcitybox.htm

Walters, T 2009, The picture palaces of Melbourne, p. 235