Q&A

Q: When will people in Christchurch’s central business district be able to visit a movie theatre again?

A: Hoyts plans to open a $50 million cinema on the corner of Colombo and Lichfield streets, opposite the city’s new bus interchange. Construction will start next year and is expected to be completed by mid-2018. The threestorey centre will feature a food precinct with 16 dining outlets on the ground floor, two very large cinema screens and two screens featuring luxury seating and a food-and-drinks service. The theatre replaces the eight-screen complex Hoyts used to have on Moorhouse Ave in the old railway station building before it was damaged by Canterbury’s earthquakes and later demolished.