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Hello @@first_name@@
Our New Year's Eve Advance Preview screenings of Golden Globe Nominated Birdman are selling fast. This weekend see Russell Crowe in The Water Diviner, an extraordinary tale of love, faith and heroism, Mr Turner is brought to life by Timothy Spall, and Bill Murray shines in St. Vincent.
Academy Award® nominee Quvenzhané Wallis returns to the big screen as everyone's favourite orphan in Annie and Vintage Classics at Kino concludes with Christmas classic White Christmas and farewell Flashback Films with screenings of It's A Wonderful Life.
Opéra de Paris present the production of Puccini's Tosca and enjoy once-in-lifetime screenings of Exhibition on Screen: Rembrandt from The National Gallery London and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
We will be opening our doors on December 25th (Christmas Day). Please check session times with your local Palace Cinema or view online to confirm as times do vary. All other days will be trading as normal. |
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BIRDMAN [MA15+] - NYE Advance Previews |
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Nominated for 7 Golden Globe Awards 2015
Including Best Picture - Musical or Comedy
Best Actor Michael Keaton Join us in celebrating the New Year with a glass of Brown Brothers Prosecco in hand and a preview screening of BIRDMAN starring Michael Keaton, Naomi Watts and Edward Norton. ★★★★★
Margaret and David - At The Movies BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself. SCREENING DETAILS Movie Club: $25 | General Admission $30 Every patron will receive a complimentary glass of Prosecco on the night Palace Balwyn Cinema Wednesday 31st December, 9.00pm Cinema Como Wednesday 31st December, 9.00pm Dendy Brighton Wednesday 31st December, 9.00pm Brighton Bay Wednesday 31st December, 6.30pm Kino Cinemas Wednesday 31st December, 6.30pm Westgarth Cinema Wednesday 31st December, 9.00pm |
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THE WATER DIVINER [M] - Advance Previews |
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Starring Russell Crowe (Gladiator) and Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion), THE WATER DIVINER is an epic adventure set four years after the devastating battle of Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. Australian farmer Connor (Crowe) Travels to Istanbul to discover the fate of his sons, reported missing in action, where he forges a relationship with the beautiful Turkish woman (Kurylenko) who owns the hotel in which he stays. Holding on to hope, and with the help of a Turkish Officer, Connor embarks on a journey across the country to find the truth about the fate of his sons. Advance Previews this weekend.
Commencing Christmas Day at Palace Balwyn, Brighton Bay, Cinema Como, Dendy Brighton, Kino and Westgarth |
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ST. VINCENT [M] - Advance Previews |
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Nominated for 2 Golden Globe Awards 2015
Best Motion Picture Movie - Musical or
Comedy
Best Actor Musical or Comedy - Bill Murray Maggie (Melissa McCarthy), a single mother, moves into a new home in Brooklyn with her 12-year old son, Oliver. Forced to work long hours, she has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of their new neighbor, Vincent (Bill Murray), a retired curmudgeon with a penchant for alcohol and gambling.
An odd friendship soon blossoms between the improbable pair. Together with a pregnant stripper named Daka (Watts), Vincent brings Oliver along on all the stops that make up his daily routine - the race track, a strip club, and the local dive bar. Vincent helps Oliver grow to become a man, while Oliver begins to see in Vincent something that no one else is able to: a misunderstood man with a good heart.
Advance Previews this weekend.
Commencing Christmas Day at Palace Balwyn, Brighton Bay, Cinema Como, Dendy Brighton, Kino and Westgarth |
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MR TURNER [M] - Advance Previews |
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MR. TURNER explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty. Advance Previews this weekend.
Commencing Christmas Day at Palace Balwyn, Brighton Bay, Cinema Como and Kino |
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THE IMITATION GAME [M] - Christmas Day Advance Preview |
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Nominated for 5 Golden Globe Awards 2015
Including Best Motion Picture Movie - Drama
Best Actor (Drama) - Benedict Cumberbatch In THE IMITATION GAME, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was prosecuted by the UK government in 1952 for homosexual acts which the country deemed illegal. Advance Previews Christmas Day
Commencing January 1 at Palace Balwyn, Brighton Bay, Cinema Como, Dendy Brighton, Kino and Westgarth |
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INTO THE WOODS [PG] - Christmas Day Advance Preview |
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Nominated for 3 Golden Globe Awards 2015
Including Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical INTO THE WOODS is a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), Jack and the Beanstalk (Daniel Huttlestone), and Rapunzel (MacKenzie Mauzy)—all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife (James Corden & Emily Blunt), their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch (Meryl Streep) who has put a curse on them. Advance Previews Christmas Day
Commencing January 8th at Palace Balwyn, Cinema Como, Dendy Brighton, Kino and Westgarth |
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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES [M] |
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From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES, the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and the Company of Dwarves. The Dwarves of Erebor have reclaimed the vast wealth of their homeland, but now must face the consequences of having unleashed the terrifying Dragon, Smaug, upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town. Read More
Commencing Boxing Day at Palace Balwyn, Dendy Brighton, Kino and Westgarth |
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: THE SECRET OF THE TOMB [PG] |
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Get ready for the wildest and most adventure-filled Night At the Museum ever as Larry (Ben Stiller) spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever. Commencing Christmas Day at Palace Balwyn and Dendy Brighton |
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PALACE FAMILY SELECTION - All Tickets $9.90 |
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BIG HERO 6 [PG] - December 26 Nominated for a Golden Globe Award
2015
Best Animated Feature Film The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. Commencing Christmas Day at Palace Balwyn, Dendy Brighton and Westgarth |
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PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR [G] - January 1 In the Penguins of Madagascar, audiences will discover the secrets of the most entertainingly mysterious birds in the global espionage game. Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private now must join forces with the chic spy organization, the North Wind, led by Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then… you know) to stop the cunning villain Dr. Octavius Brine from taking over the world. Commencing January 1 at Palace Balwyn, Dendy Brighton and Westgarth |
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PADDINGTON [G] - Now Showing The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. Now Showing at Palace Balwyn, Dendy Brighton and Westgarth |
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Nominated for 2 Golden Globe Awards 2015
Best Actress Musical or Comedy for Quvenzhané
Wallis
Best Original Song Academy Award® nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) - advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) - makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Read more.
Now Showing at Palace Balwyn, Dendy Brighton and Westgarth |
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Flashback Films - It's A Wonderful Life [PG] |
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The films that shaped your childhood are finishing up for the season and we are finishing on a true classic It's A Wonderful Life.
SCREENING DETAILS 10.30am Saturdays and Sundays at Palace Balwyn and Dendy Brighton.
ALL TICKETS $8.50 excluding 3D films
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE [PG]
An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed. |
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Vintage Classics - White Christmas [G] |
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Vintage Classics at Kino presents an eclectic selection of cinema so you can slip back in time, fall into your favourite genre and relive much-loved films from bygone eras on the silver screen.
SCREENING DETAILS 3.00pm Sunday at Kino Cinemas $8 Palace Movie Club Members | $10 Full Price
WHITE CHRISTMAS [M] A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general. |
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Colour Your Summer with Brown Brothers |
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To celebrate the start of summer, Brown Brothers is offering Palace Cinema-goers a new way to enjoy wine with our limited edition Colour Your Summer Wine Cocktails! Between 20th of November and 28th of January, you can try a new one every fortnight at Palace Cinema Como. There is also a chance to win an amazing Colour Your Summer prize pack worth $2500 - details on how to enter available whenever you purchase a Brown Brothers Wine Cocktail at participating cinemas. Cocktail of the fortnight is the Fruity Negroni on sale now until December 31st.
#makeitcolourful |
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Palace Opera and Ballet - 2014/15 Season |
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The 2014-2015 Palace Opera & Ballet season presents 16 new productions, concurrent with the Royal Opera House and Opéra National de Paris performances. Experience these amazing productions, captured live on stage, with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.
Opera de Paris: TOSCA Based on a melodrama by French playwright Victorien Sardou, originally written for Sarah Bernhardt, Puccini’s sexually explosive thriller depicts a corrupt police chief who sets his sights on a glamorous singer as he plots to destroy her lover, a politically rebellious painter. Pierre Audi directs a new production of this violent and passionate masterwork for the Opéra de Paris. Puccini’s timeless verismo score is well served by an exceptional cast. Austrian soprano Martina Serafin as Floria Tosca, the jealous diva, opposite Argentine lyric tenor Marcelo Álvarez. Ludovic Tézier is the villainous Scarpia.
Duration: approx. 162mins including 2 intervals Language: Sung in Italian with English subtitles Commencing December 19 at Palace Balwyn, Brighton Bay and Cinema Como |
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REMBRANDT [CTC] - Commencing Saturday |
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From The National Gallery London and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Meet the man behind the masterpieces in this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition... Every Rembrandt exhibition is eagerly anticipated, but this major new show hosted by London’s National Gallery and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is an event like no other. Given exclusive, privileged access to both galleries, the film documents this landmark exhibition whilst interweaving Rembrandt’s life story with the behind-the-scenes preparations at these world famous institutions. Read More.
Commencing Saturday at Palace Brighton Bay and Cinema Como |
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