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Coburg Drive-In
Coburg Drive-In is a heritage-listed drive-in theatre operated by Village Cinemas in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg. Films are screened throughout the week, and the site is also used for the Coburg Trash and Treasure Market on Sundays during the day. History The Coburg Drive-In opened on 25 November 1965 with a double feature of ''Marnie'' and ''McHale's Navy''. The Big Six chain were the original owners for the first two years of operation, until Hoyts acquired the theatre in 1967. The 1960s and 1970s were the peak of drive-in culture's popularity in Melbourne, and at one stage the theatre competed with six other drive-ins within the surrounding suburbs alone. In 1974, fire trucks from the Metropolitan Fire Brigade entered the drive-in with lights flashing in order to put out a grass fire along the banks of the adjoining Merri Creek. Coincidentally, the film screening that night was ''The Towering Inferno'', which led many audience members to believe the fire trucks were part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charter Hall
Charter Hall is an Australian property development and funds management company. In 2022, IREI ranked Charter Hall as the largest real estate investment manager in Australasia based on assets under management. History Charter Hall was founded in 1991 by André Biet, David Southon and Cedric Fuchs. Biet left in 2005 when the company listed, Southon left in 2016 and Fuch retired in 2018. In 2004, Transfield Holdings acquired a 50% stake of Charter Hall. In the same year David Harrison joined the company and is now leading it as Group CEO. In June 2005, the company held an initial public offering to list on the Australian Securities Exchange. In 2010, the company acquired Macquarie Group's real estate platform. In November 2016, Charter Hall Long WALE REIT listed on Australian Securities Exchange which at the time was the largest ever initial public offering for a diversified property trust in the Australian market. In August 2018, Charter Hall acquired rival Folkestone in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Max
''Mad Max'' is an Australian media franchise created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy. It centres on a series of post-apocalyptic and dystopian action films. The franchise began in 1979 with '' Mad Max'', and was followed by three sequels: ''Mad Max 2'' (1981; released in the United States as ''The Road Warrior''), '' Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (1985) and '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' (2015); Miller directed or co-directed all four films. A spin-off, '' Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga'', was released in 2024 and was also directed by Miller. Mel Gibson originally portrayed the series's title character, Max Rockatansky, in the first three films, while Tom Hardy and Jacob Tomuri portrayed the character in the later two films. The series follows Max, who starts the series as a police officer in a future Australia which is experiencing societal collapse due to war, critical resource shortages, and ecocide. As Australia devolves further into barbarity, Max becomes a wandering drifter in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of Melbourne
The culture of Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria, Australia, Victoria, encompasses the city's artistic, culinary, literary, musical, political and social elements. Since its founding as a British settlement in 1835, Melbourne has been culturally influenced by culture of Europe, European culture, particularly that of the British Isles. During the 1850s Victorian gold rush and in the decades that immediately followed, immigrants from many other parts of the world, notably China and the Americas, helped shape Melbourne's culture. Over time, Melbourne has become the birthplace of a number of unique cultural traits and institutions, and today it is one of the world's most multicultural cities. Traditionally acclaimed as Australia's "cultural capital", Melbourne topped the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Ranking, annual ranking of the world's most liveable cities throughout much of the 2010s, based in part on its cultural attributes. Overview M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinemas In Melbourne
A movie theater (American English) or cinema (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English), also known as a movie house, cinema hall, picture house, picture theater, the movies, the pictures, or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoriums for viewing films for public entertainment. Most are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing Ticket (admission), tickets. The film is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium while the dialogue, sounds and music are played through a number of wall-mounted speakers. Since the 1970s, subwoofers have been used for low-pitched sounds. Since the 2010s, the majority of movie theaters have been equipped for digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film print on a heavy reel. A great variety of films are shown at cinemas, ranging from animated films to Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbuste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holidays On The River Yarra
''Holidays on the River Yarra'' is a 1991 Australian drama film directed by Leo Berkeley. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Disillusioned Melbourne teenage boys Mick and Eddie are looking for adventure and a means of escape. They unwittingly get themselves involved in a criminal enterprise, and somehow must find enough money to sail to Africa.: Cast * Craig Adams - Eddie * Luke Elliot - Mick * Alex Menglet - Big Mac * Tahir Cambis - Stewie * Claudia Karvan - Elsa * Ian Scott - Frank * Sheryl Munks - Valerie * Angela McKenna - Mother * Chris Askey - Mercenary * John Brumpton - Mercenary * Jacek Koman - Mercenary * Eric Mueck - Billy * Justin Connor - Danny * Leong Lim - Shopkeeper * Robert Ratti - Nick * Arpad Mihaly - Chef Box office ''Holidays on the River Yarra'' grossed $24,600 at the box office in Australia. See also *Cinema of Australia The cinema of Australia began with the 1906 production of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodge Phoenix
The Dodge Phoenix is an automobile which was produced by Chrysler Australia from 1960 to 1972. The Phoenix was introduced in May 1960 as an Australian assembled version of the American Dodge Dart,The Phoenix Retrieved from allpar.com on 12 September 2008 positioned above the locally developed as Chrysler Australia’s luxury model. It borrowed its name from the top Dart, the Dodge Dart Phoenix, but unlike its American namesake it was offered only as a four-door sedan and only with a 318 cubic inch V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mornington Peninsula
The Mornington Peninsula is a peninsula located in the south of Greater Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. It is surrounded by Port Phillip to the west, Western Port to the east and Bass Strait to the south, and is connected to the mainland in the north. Geographically, the peninsula begins its protrusion from the mainland in the area between Pearcedale, Victoria, Pearcedale and an area north of Frankston, Victoria, Frankston. The area was originally home to the ''Mayone-bulluk'' and ''Boonwurrung-Balluk'' clans, and formed part of the Bunurong, Boonwurrung nation's territory prior to European settlement. Much of the peninsula has been cleared for agriculture and settlements. However, small areas of the native ecology remain in the peninsula's south and west, some of which is protected by the Mornington Peninsula National Park. In 2002, around 180,000 people lived on the peninsula and in nearby areas, most in the built-up towns on its western shorelines which a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dromana 3 Drive-In
Dromana 3 Drive-In (also known as Dromana Drive-In) is a heritage-listed and independently owned drive-in theatre in the Melbourne suburb of Dromana on the Mornington Peninsula. It is the oldest continuously operating drive-in in Australia. History The theatre first opened under the name Peninsula Drive-In in 1962, with original owner Frank Whitaker having been involved in the cinema industry since the 1930s. Drive-in culture in Australia peaked in the following decades, up until the home video era which saw many theatres close in the 1980s. Paul Whitaker, son of Frank, took over management in 1989. In 1984, the Peninsula Drive-in became the first in the world to offer true stereo sound via an FM radio signal. Though a similar service was being offered in some drive-ins through CINE-FI, it was either on the AM band with lower sound quality and only in mono, or in FM but in an artificially mixed "stereo." A second screen was added in 1992 after being disassembled and transpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever, fatigue, cough, breathing difficulties, anosmia, loss of smell, and ageusia, loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days incubation period, after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected asymptomatic, do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia (medical), hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock (circulatory), shock, or organ dysfunction, multiorgan dysfunction). Older people have a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some complicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Trust Of Australia
The National Trust of Australia, officially the Australian Council of National Trusts (ACNT), is the Australian national peak body for community-based, non-government non-profit organisations committed to promoting and conserving Australia's Indigenous Australian, Indigenous, natural and historic heritage. The umbrella body was incorporated in 1965, with member organisations in every state and territory of Australia. History Modelled on the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty and inspired by local campaigns to conserve native bushland and preserve old buildings, the first Australian National Trusts were formed in New South Wales in 1945, South Australia in 1955 and Victoria (Australia), Victoria in 1956; followed later in Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. The two Territory Trusts were the last to be founded, in 1976 (see below). The driving force behind the establishment of the National Trust in Australia was Annie Forsyth Wyatt (1885â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burglar (film)
''Burglar'' is a 1987 heist comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson and distributed by Warner Bros. The film stars Whoopi Goldberg and Bobcat Goldthwait. The title of the French-language release is ''La Pie voleuse''. Plot Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr, a former San Francisco burglar, resumes her life of crime when a corrupt police officer named Ray Kirschman blackmails her. A dentist, Dr. Cynthia Sheldrake, hires Bernice to break into her ex-husband Christopher's home and steal back her jewelry. Things take a turn for the worse when Christopher is murdered while Bernie is robbing his home, and thanks to Sheldrake and her lawyer Carson, Bernie is the only suspect. To clear her name, Bernice and her friend—Carl—hop from bar to bar looking for someone who knew Christopher. They find out that Christopher had quite a few girlfriends and—to their surprise—boyfriends. Bernice has three new suspects after an old flame of Christopher's tells her about an artist, a bartender, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whoopi Goldberg
Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.Kuchwara, Michael (AP Drama Writer)"Whoopi Goldberg: A One-Woman Character Parade". ''The Fremont News-Messenger''. November 29, 1984. Retrieved January 22, 2021. "I'm an actor. That's what I do. I'm not a stand-up comic ... I do characters. I'm very good. I'll be better. But right now I'm a very good actor." The recipient of numerous accolades, she is one of few people to receive an Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Tony Award, collectively known as the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony). In 2001, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Goldberg began her career on stage in 1983 with her one-woman show, ''Spook Show'', which transferred to Broadway under the title ''Whoopi Goldberg'', running from 1984 to 1985. She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the recording of the show. Her film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
