{"id":557232,"date":"2026-08-03T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557232\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:00:10","slug":"hoyts-looks-to-grow-imax-presence-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557232\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoyts looks to grow IMAX presence in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMAX has been seeing a big surge in popularity thanks to films like The Odyssey, and the head of Hoyts is looking to utilise this to meet demand.<\/p>\n<p>Event Cinemas currently operates the only two IMAX theatres in New Zealand, in Wellington and Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Film critic Darren Bevan says it&#8217;s likely Christchurch will get an IMAX theatre &#8211; and Hoyts has said there&#8217;s plans to upgrade existing cinema complexes in Riccarton in Christchurch, Te Awa in Hamilton and Sylvia Park in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IMAX has been seeing a big surge in popularity thanks to films like The Odyssey, and the head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138,69747,409,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-557232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-business","tag-imax","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}