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- Antonio Zeccola, Founder and Owner of Palace Cinemas. Antonio Zeccola's involvement in film dates back to the 1960's where his first foray into the motion picture industry was (like his father's before him) a rented town hall screening films to small but enthusiastic audiences.
Palace Cinemas was founded by Antonio Zeccola in 1965. Zeccola's first cinema, Pix Theatre in Noble Park, was originally only open on weekends and operated as a dance theatre for the rest of the week. In late 1994, Palace opened The Como and The George cinemas in Melbourne.
Founded by Antonio Zeccola in 1965, Palace Films is an independent, family-run distribution company that has proudly profiled the work of leading and emerging international filmmaking talent to Australian and New Zealand audiences for sixty years.
Antonio Zeccola founded this thriving organisation forty-five years ago and intriguingly enough, the way it came about could inspire a film genre Palace Cinemas specialises in. It is a story that has been likened to Giuseppe Tornatore's celebrated film "Cinema Paradiso", with its beginning presenting quite a few similarities.
Antonio Zeccola has shaped Australia’s arthouse film culture for 50 years. And even a pandemic can’t stop him. By Helen Barlow. Palace Cinemas chairman Antonio Zeccola. From The Weekend Australian Magazine. October 24, 2020. 9 min ute read.
Nov 30, 2023 · The building’s current owners accepted a bid from Palace Cinemas – a family-run business founded by Antonio Zeccola in 1965 – for a space within the forthcoming development, however Palace’s CEO tells us it “the economies of scale don’t add up”.
Nov 30, 2023 · Nicole Kidman at the official opening of the Palace Verona in 1996 with Palace Cinemas founder Antonio Zeccola and his daughter Stephanie Zeccola. Palace. Chief executive Benjamin Zeccola described it as a sad end for “a spectacular and glorious location for cinema”.
