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Moonlight Movies / 月下戲院 [2007-2009]

Date Place completed: 
2007-10-01
Date Place demolished: 
2009-11-01

Seating capacity: advertised 200, actual number may vary.

Address: The Podium, Cyberport 2, 100 Cyberport Road, Cyberport, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

​It is not a no misspell, Moonlight Movies is the actual name.  My internet search has not been able to find its Chinese name.  If indeed, there was one, it could be 月下 because it conveys an event or occasion happening under moonlight, or a romantic atmosphere.

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Mei Chiu Theatre / 美照戲院. [1924-1935]

Date Place completed: 
1924-01-01
Date Place demolished: 
1935-06-01

There is very little available information about Mei Chiu Theatre except that it was located somwhere in Hung Hom in Kowloon, Hong Kong.  Google search does not show any building in Hung Hom by this name.  Please ignore the location marker on this map.

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May Wah Theatre / 美華戲院 [1969-????]

Date Place completed: 
1969-08-30

Seating capacity:  unknown.

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Luna Park Cinema / 月園戲院 [1950-1954]

Date Place completed: 
1950-09-30
Date Place demolished: 
1954-06-16

Seating capacity: unknown.

Address:  Luna Park, North Point Road, Hong Kong.  Please note the park is no longer in existance due to housing development after the park was closed.  The park's area corresponds to the area centering around the present Yuet Yuen Street in North Point.  The Gwulo page about the park is at: https://gwulo.com/luna-park#18/22.29100/114.19566/Map_by_ESRI-Markers/100

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Kok Sun Garden / 高陞戲院 [1902-????]

Date Place completed: 
1902-12-03

Seating capacity: unknown.

Address:  Somewhere near Central Market in Cenral, Hong Kong placing it in the vicinity of Des Voeux Road Central, Queen's Road Central, and Jubilee St.  An approximate marker is shown on this map.

Research by Cinema Treasures shows that Kok Sun Garden Theatre operated on December 3, 1902 near a garden in Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon.  Later that month on December 16 it moved to a site near the Central Market in Central, Hong Kong.

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Fortuna ~ HK Opera House / 華富閣戲院 ~ 香江大舞台 [1979-2010]

Date Place completed: 
1979-01-26
Date Place demolished: 
2010-03-21

For simplicity, since both theatres occupied the same hall but operated in different periods, both are discussed here.

Seating capacity: 1,274.   Address: 4, Wah Lok Path, Wah Fu Estate, Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong Grand Theatre (Wan Chai) / 香港大舞台 [1958-1976]

Date Place completed: 
1958-05-22
Date Place demolished: 
1976-09-19

Seating capacity: 1,243

Address: Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.  Hopewell Centre is the current occupant at the site.

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Hei Loi Garden / 喜來園 [1900-1904]

Date Place completed: 
1900-11-05
Date Place demolished: 
1904-01-01

Seating capacity: unknown

Address:  140 Holywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

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Fairview Theatre / 樂富戲院 [????-????]

Seating capacity: 2 screens, total 1,444.

Address: 198 Junction Road, Wang Tau Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Available information shows that the theatre was on the third floor of the Lok Fu Plaza Second Phase, and it operated from some time in the 1990s to the 2000s.  

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Eastern District Theatre / 東區遊樂場戲院 [1940-1953]

Date Place completed: 
1940-01-27
Date Place demolished: 
1953-07-01

Seating capacity: unknown.

Address: Yee Wo Street, Causeway Bay Hong Kong, about the southeast corner of Yee Wo - Pennington intersection.

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