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“Ten years ago, I was watching a movie in a park. I tried to find enough space to lie down, I put my head on my backpack, and as night fell I was getting cold. I told myself it would be really cool to be in a bed with a blanket under the stars to watch a movie, and Mov’in Bed was born,” says Vincent Hernandez, founder of the event.
In Parramatta, under plane trees and big skies, the team first launched the bed cinema, swapping seats for inflatable double mattresses, blankets and pillows, and selling out a 16-night run. Local media named it one of Sydney’s best new events of 2016, noting the 100 mattresses that let people literally lie back and relax.
A bed, pillows and a doona were a revolution
From that spark, Australia’s most unique outdoor bed cinema took shape. Real beds under the stars, pillows and doonas, glowing bedside tables, and service to your bed. The format grew up and moved to the harbour, to St Kilda Beach and to Perth. Today, Barangaroo’s Harbour Park is transformed each summer into a city beach with 280 tonnes of white sand, around 150 queen and king beds, and one of the country’s biggest outdoor screens. Australia proudly owns the world’s biggest outdoor bed cinema.Pandemic time, we crossed the bed to bring the car and the boat
When the pandemic arrived, Mov’in did not go dark. In May 2020, Mov’in Car made headlines by relaunching the drive-in in Australia as Sydney and Canberra emerged from the first lockdowns, parking up on the Entertainment Quarter rooftop and in Canberra’s Parliamentary Triangle with a full season of blockbusters. The four-month run sold out every night with two films per evening.Then cinema went on water. Mov’in Boat floated into Darling Harbour with rowboats, a 1,000-square-metre floating platform, beds on pontoons and floating bars. The large-scale floating cinema was widely billed as an Australian first and welcomed more than 40,000 guests across five months.
Innovation continued. In 2023, Mov’in Car EV Cinema returned to the EQ rooftop as Australia’s first EV-only drive-in, in partnership with Polestar.
Then, we moved 220 tons of sand to create a city beach
Now, for the tenth year, Mov’in is doing what Sydney loves most. A beach in the middle of the city and an invitation to upgrade movie night to business class under the stars. Space, a comfy bed, chef-made pizzas and burgers delivered to your bedside, wireless noise-cancelling headphones for calm, cinematic sound, and a screen engineered for the elements. The container-mounted screen system improves wind resilience so your outdoor movie night stays smooth, while a full on-site kitchen ensures everything is cooked fresh. This is the work of a small, independent company that selects the movies, builds the cinema and runs the show every night, every summer.“In ten years we have pushed boundaries and challenged ourselves to keep reinventing the experience, making it better and comfier, while keeping it accessible. We have not increased our prices in four years and we have tickets starting at $12 so anyone can enjoy a movie under the stars,” says Vincent Hernandez.
Barangaroo Beach Bed Cinema Returns With A Stellar Line-Up
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| First Mov'in Bed season in 2016 |
From mid-December the beach turns festive. The Christmas takeover features crowd-pleasing comfort watches and quotable favourites: Elf, the evergreen debate-starter Die Hard, Home Alone, the modern classic Love Actually and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Through it all the proposition stays simple and comfy. Arrive early, settle into your outdoor bed, enjoy the sunset, the balmy summer night, order dinner and a cocktail to your bedside then let the film take over. Mov’in Bed turns ten and we are going to Celebrate. Expect surprises.
Mov'in Bed:
Dates: Friday November 28 – April 2026Location: Harbour Park, Central Barangaroo - Sydney
Tickets start at $12/pers for sand and $45/pers for bed
Website: https://movinbed.com/
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