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“In Two Hands (1999), Heath Ledger and Rose Byrne try to outrun Bryan Brown and his gang as they bolt through the streets of Chinatown. They manage to lose the gangsters for a short while by jumping on the monorail in Haymarket. Alone at last, they share a kiss. Other productions that have used Haymarket as a backdrop include the Ryan Kwanten movie Griff the Invisible (2010), the AFI Award-winning television series East West 101 (2007-2011) with Don Hany, Little Fish (2005) starring Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving, and The Potato Factory (2000), a mini-series based on Bryce Courtenay’s historical-novel.”
“Parker Street, off Hay Street, was a location for Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). In the scene, two men trying to escape Zilla run down the street in sheer terror towards the Capitol Theatre. One of them trips over and the other comes to the rescue as the creature looms down upon them. The Capitol Theatre in Haymarket has had many incarnations since its construction in 1892. It started off as the Belmore Markets and was then converted into a hippodrome to accommodate its new tenant, the Wirth Bros Circus. In 1927, the building was transformed into an “atmospheric” picture palace…”
“A kite with a blow-up doll attached to it lands in China at the very end of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) just after the credits have rolled. The brief scene in Stephan Elliott’s iconic movie starring Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp was shot at Darling Harbour’s Chinese Garden of Friendship, also a filming location for The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1995). Inaugurated in 1988 as part of the Bicentennial celebrations, the gardens were a gift from Sydney’s Chinese sister city Guangzhou to mark the bond that unites the two countries.”
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