Exit stage right as Paramount Pictures leaves Brisbane

By Kristian Silva
Updated October 8 2015 - 11:08am, first published 1:00am
Promotional float for Paramount Theatre, Bundaberg, ca. 1930s. Photo: John Oxley Library, State Librar
Promotional float for Paramount Theatre, Bundaberg, ca. 1930s. Photo: John Oxley Library, State Librar
The old Paramount Pictures building on Ann Street could be bulldozed. Photo: Supplied
The old Paramount Pictures building on Ann Street could be bulldozed. Photo: Supplied
After almost a century, Paramount Pictures will no longer have a presence in Brisbane. Photo: Supplied
After almost a century, Paramount Pictures will no longer have a presence in Brisbane. Photo: Supplied

Brisbane got one of its first tastes of Hollywood when Paramount Pictures opened an office in the CBD in the 1920s. Nearly 90 years on, the movie company is set to quietly slip out of the River City.

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