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Pages in category "Former cinemas and movie theaters in Los Angeles" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Cameo Theatre is a historic former movie theater on Broadway in Los Angeles, California. Opened by film mogul W. H. Clune as Clune's Broadway Theatre in 1910, it was one of the first purpose-built movie theaters in the United States. It remained the oldest continually operating movie theater in Los Angeles until its closure in 1991.
Actual Cine Estelí in the city of Estelí, Nicaragua, 2006. Cinema in Nicaragua goes as way back as the end of the 19th century, when the first movie projection took place in January 1900 at the prestigious Teatro Castaño in Managua. [1] The first movie theater, Salón de Cine San Jacinto, opened in 1909. [2]
The first film shown at the Warner Cinerama was This is Cinerama, which grossed $3,845,200 ($45 million in 2024) in its first 115 weeks, a Los Angeles record. The film closed 133 weeks after it opened and on November 15, 1955, Cinerama Holiday opened, playing for 81 weeks and grossing $2,212,600 ($25.6 million in 2024).
The series was the brainchild of John Wyatt, a set designer [8] then in his mid-twenties. [9] A student of influential film lecturer Jim Hosney at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, [10] Wyatt initially formed an Italian cinema club with friend Richard Petit, of which Cinespia is a natural evolution. [2]
The Nimoy Theater, formerly known as Crest, Majestic Crest and Bigfoot Crest Theatre, is a movie theatre located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It was founded as the UCLAN in 1941, and was built for live performances but switched to a newsreel cinema during World War II. Through ownership changes, it has been known at ...
In July 2021, director Quentin Tarantino revealed that he had purchased the theater. [9] The Vista is officially reopened on November 17, 2023. [10] Shortly afterward, the theater began operating a cafe (Pam's Coffy, named for Pam Grier) and a micro-cinema (the Video Archives Cinema Club, named for Video Archives), and offering beer and wine. [11]
The Broadway Theater District in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [2] With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway , it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.