When "Avatar" was released it December, it went on to become the biggest movie of all time, taking in close to 3 billion dollars at the worldwide box office. It's production saw a revolution in the development of motion capture and 3D technology. Now, with scens handpicked by director James Cameron, "Avatar" will be re-released to audiences with an extra eight minutes of footage...but only for a limited time!................................About Our 3D Two Projector Technology - We use two Christie 2K Projectors. The projectors are imported from the USA. Most Cinemas only use one 2K projector. The two 2K Projectors allowed us to have a bigger screen at Victoria Point before the technology was available with one projector. We liked the clarity of the picture, so we have decided to stay using two christie projectors at each of our locations. We feel that the two projector method gives us more light and a better picture than just using the one projector. Each projector is around $80-$90,000 so there would be cost savings for us to buy one projector but we also like displaying 3D on big screens with alot of light eg Hawthorne Cinema 1.

When you go to the cinema the way to tell if the cinema is using two projectors is during the movie look up at the projection box and see if you can see two projector lights. The speakers at Hawthorne are the same speakers which we bought in 1993 for Jurassic Park. When Jurassic Park came out it was the first film with digital DTS sound. The speakers that we had back then were Altec. They were huge but they weren't built for digital sound. So we ordered the most expensive model of speakers for cinemas which was JBL. The sound was so powerful that we had to knock down the back wall of the Hawthorne Cinema and build a new brick one,as the sound was just passing straight through the walls to the houses at the back of the cinema on all the action scenes. In those days the sound also passed through another wall, as the wall to cinema 1 and cinema 3 was joined. We then had to build another wall to try to stop the sound passing through to cinema 3. After we built the second wall, and a few days later, we soon realised one wall was not enough. The carpenter got it wrong and to his astonishment he was called back to build another one. So Cinema 3 in those days had three walls. When Hawthorne was remodelled again the toilets went inbetween cinema one and three and the extra space and volume between the two cinemas stopped the problem. But if you really wanted to hear what it sounded like in the 1990's then go into the cafe at Hawthorne when Avatar is screening and wait for some action scenes. Even though the speakers and the cinema are considered old, with the design of the Architects in the 1920's you will notice how clear and concise the cinema sounds in a wooden cinema even to this day. At Hawthorne the floor is made of wood, the walls are of wood, and the ceiling is made of wood, even the portal frame is wood. Combine the sound, the dual projection system and the large screen there really is no better place in Brisbane to see Avatar in 3D than Hawthorne. Hawthorne Cinema has seen alot in its day. It had seen the boom in cinema attendances in the 1920's, was closed in the 1960's with television, saw colour film and dolby stereo sound, survived muitiplexes being built in all the shopping centers, saw digital sound happen in Cinemas with Jurassic Park, and then with Narnia was the first cinema in Australia to have a digital 2K projector. In 2009 it now has an advanced 3d dual projection system yet is one of only three old cinemas in Brisbane that was built before the war and is still screening movies today.

Before mid 2010 we are expecting a Christie 4K projector to be released. We will then buy two of these projectors for cinema 5 at South Bank. The glasses we use are circular polarised 3d Glasses.
There are also a few other types of glasses. Linear polarised glasses is what Imax use. And the red and blue glasses of the older days are mainly used now for DVD, the internet and TV.

Adults $13.00, Students/Seniors $11.00, Children $9.00, Pensioners $9.00