Notes Payable (Narrative) (Details)	0 Months Ended	6 Months Ended		12 Months Ended	6 Months Ended		12 Months Ended	0 Months Ended	6 Months Ended		12 Months Ended	6 Months Ended				12 Months Ended	1 Months Ended	6 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jun. 28, 2012 Y	Jun. 30, 2012	Jun. 30, 2012 NAB Australian Corporate Term Loan [Member] USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2011 NAB Australian Corporate Term Loan [Member] USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2012 NAB Australian Corporate Credit Facility [Member]	Jun. 30, 2012 US GE Capital Term Loan [Member] USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2011 US GE Capital Term Loan [Member] USD ($)	Jun. 28, 2012 Previous US Cinemas 1, 2, 3 Term Loan [Member]	Jun. 30, 2012 Previous US Cinemas 1, 2, 3 Term Loan [Member] USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2012 US Cinema 1, 2, 3 Term Loan [Member] USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2011 US Cinema 1, 2, 3 Term Loan [Member] USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2012 Previous New Zealand Corporate Credit Facility [Member] USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2012 Previous New Zealand Corporate Credit Facility [Member] NZD	Jun. 30, 2012 New Zealand Corporate Credit Facility [Member] USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2012 New Zealand Corporate Credit Facility [Member] NZD	Dec. 31, 2011 New Zealand Corporate Credit Facility [Member] USD ($)	Apr. 30, 2012 Trust Preferred Securities [Member] Y M	Jun. 30, 2012 Trust Preferred Securities [Member] USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2011 Trust Preferred Securities [Member] USD ($)
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate					8.15%	5.84%
Pay Fixed Rate					5.50%	1.34%
Interest rate margin					2.65%	4.50%
Note payable			$ 84,959,000	$ 88,671,000		$ 28,906,000	$ 32,188,000		$ 15,000,000	$ 15,000,000	$ 15,000,000			$ 22,476,000		$ 21,854,000		$ 27,913,000	$ 27,913,000
Spread on variable interest rate									5.00%								4.00%
LIBOR period (in months)																	3
Maturity date		June 27, 2013	June 30, 2014			December 1, 2015			July 1, 2012	June 27, 2013				March 31, 2015	March 31, 2015			April 30, 2027
Extension period option available on loan	1
Line of credit facility, maximum borrowing capacity												36,900,000	45,000,000	32,800,000	40,000,000
Line of credit term (in years)								1				3	3
Line of credit facility, decrease in maximum borrowing capacity														$ 4,100,000	5,000,000
Facility margin												0.55%	0.55%	2.00%	2.00%
Debt Instrument			6.28%	7.20%		5.50%	5.50%			5.25%	6.73%			4.70%	4.70%	4.15%	9.22%	4.47%	9.22%
Extension fee, percentage								1.00%
Sovereign Bank Loan covenants										The Sovereign Bank Loan covenants include maintaining a loan to value ratio of at least 50% of fair market value and an 11% debt yield (with a numerator of the cash available for debt service and a denominator of the outstanding principal balance of the loan).
Loan to value ratio									50.00%
Debt yield percentage									11.00%
Percentage of SHP owned by Reading		75.00%
Percentage of SHP owned by Sutton Hall Capital, LLC		25.00%
Number of years that interest rate has been in effect																	5