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Curtains on Aussie theatres of memories: Cinema opened by Nicole Kidman latest to bite the dust
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The Verona cinema in Sydney, which is due to be redeveloped into a six-storey shopping and entertainment site, joins a long list of cinemas in Sydney that have been closed and repurposed.
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SYDNEY - On the night of Feb 21, one of Sydney’s landmark movie theatres, the Verona Cinema, a four-screen complex just outside the city centre, will hold its final screenings.
It will be a sorry night for cinemagoers. But it marks an all too familiar development in this city, where ever-rising property prices

