Pacific Fair cinemas set to close ahead of major redevelopment to become the ‘best in Australia’

THE credits will roll on Pacific Fair’s cinemas this week but what is set to replace them will be world class

Mansoor Noor and Lizzie Elliott watch a 3-D movie in on of the new VMax premium cinemas at Birch Carroll & Coyle, Chermside.

THE credits will roll on the last picture show at Birch Carroll & Coyle Pacific Fair this week as the cinema complex prepares for a Hollywood-style makeover.

Wednesday’s 7pm screening of Guardians of the Galaxy will be the final film to play the cinema complex before work begins on its multi-million dollar transformation as part of the $670 million redevelopment of Pacific Fair Shopping Centre.

The work is expected to take 12 months. The Broadbeach cinema’s 35 staff will be redeployed to other sites during construction.

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Actors Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson have visited Pacific Fair cinemas when they viewed unedited previews of Hudson’s movie Fool's Gold.

Already home to 12 traditional cinema screens, the venue will be reconfigured to feature three Gold Class Cinemas, a state-of-the-art Vmax Cinema with a 20m digital screen, stadium-style seating and seven traditional cinemas.

Event Cinemas Robina is currently home to the Coast’s only Vmax theatre.

The new-look complex will include revamped food and beverage areas, including licensed bars.

Star Wars fan outside Pacific Fair cinemas back in 2005.

The cinema’s general manager, Matt Philips, said staff would spend the next couple of weeks packing up before the keys to the complex are handed over to Westfield.

“We very rarely shut down a cinema ... the cinema usually continues to operate in some capacity,” he said.

“Every fitting will be replaced, which doesn’t happen very often ... it will be the best offering in the country.”

Billed as Queensland’s first “senstadium”, Birch Carroll & Coyle Pacific Fair was the company’s flagship cinema when it opened in 1997 with a screening of Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope.

The new facility is expected to restore the Pacific Fair cinema complex as Birch Carroll & Coyle’s flagship offering in Australia.