Hoyts, which operates more than 400 screens in Australia and New Zealand, withdrew from the distrib biz in the late 1980s, ... “Dirty Deeds,” a crime caper starring Bryan Brown, ...

Hoyts and PayPal have joined forces to make it easy to buy movie tickets on your mobile phone.

Pacific Equity Partners, an Australian buyout firm, bought the Hoyts Group chain of cinemas from Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd. and West Australian Newspapers Holdings Ltd. in a transaction that ...

SYDNEY -- Sydney-based private equity group Pacific Equity Partners has acquired Australian cinema operator and film distributor the Hoyts Group for AUS$440 million ($365 million), PEP said Monday.

Hoyts joined with MGM Home Entertainment to nab “Lord of War,” a drama featuring Nicolas Cage and Ethan Hawke, and the Colin Farrell starrer “Intermission,” which bows Down Under June 4.

update Movie-goers keen for a cheap deal will be disappointed to learn that an e-mail purporting to offer AU$4.95 Thursday movies at Hoyts is a fake.