{"id":12224,"date":"2025-09-04T03:17:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=12224"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:17:46","slug":"observer-eclipse-cinema-opens-at-collingwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2025\/09\/04\/observer-eclipse-cinema-opens-at-collingwood\/","title":{"rendered":"OBSERVER: Eclipse Cinema opens at Collingwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How often do we have a new Cinema opening in Melbourne or Victoria for that matter? it has just happened; Eclipse Cinema at 32 Wellington St, Collingwood.<br>Some 18 months in the making with refurbishing a vintage factory warehouse, the former home for decades of the Sherrin family football manufacturers, in fact up to 1982, over 100 years.<br>Scraping pennies together, the building was built by Tom William Sheerin in 1879 when as a saddler he commenced making rugby balls, and soon after created a new shaped ball that we know today.<br>Mark Walker, a well credentialled cinema owner and projectionist here and overseas, and in 2015 co-founder of Geelong\u2019s Pivotonian Cinema, has spent endless hours and dollars in refurbishing the space in Wellington St into a luxury 64 seat single\u2013screen theatre.<br>He has taken the name Eclipse, that was a silent film theatre at 20 Smith St, Collingwood, in 1900 while another opened in the 1920s: Hoyts Eclipse Movie theatre in Port Melbourne, closED in 1964 and WAS later demolished.<br>He has retained many of the features of the Sherrin building, the exquisite fa\u00e7ade, the original hardwood flooring where not covered in carpet for noise reduction and the significant gabled roof, with its timber lining panels, all retained from 1879.<br>Opening of the cinema is a milestone for Melbourne and what can you expect from a single-screen cinema?<br>Eclipse Cinema is a full daily, seven days a week screening of local, international, indie and avant-garde films that as Mark explained \u201cneed to be seen on screen\u201d.<br>\u201cEven risky releases that might not make money.\u201d<br>So with continuous screenings daily, there is the opportunity for all to start early morning until late at night, embracing the many works not necessarily seen elsewhere.<br>Fully licensed, choc tops and more will make the experience memorable whatever time of day, as you sit back in one of the 64 luxury seats.<br>To Mark Walker, well done &#8211; Melbourne needed a new cinema experience, and you have created it.<br>For enquiries, program listing and tickets, visit: www.eclipsecinema.com.au<br><strong>Graeme McCoubrie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pictured: Mark Walker outside his new Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often do we have a new Cinema opening in Melbourne or Victoria for that matter? it has just happened; Eclipse Cinema at 32 Wellington St, Collingwood.Some 18 months in the making with refurbishing a vintage factory warehouse, the former home for decades of the Sherrin family football manufacturers, in fact up to 1982, over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12230,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions\/12230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}