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Robert Laemmle's father Max and uncle Kurt, cousins of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle, bought their first movie theater in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1938. There are seven locations: Claremont 5 in Claremont , Glendale 5 in Glendale , Monica Film Center in Santa Monica , Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles , Town ...
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In 1917, the National was renamed as the Regent Theatre. In the 1920s, the emerging Broadway Theater District and its newer, more luxurious movie palaces began drawing crowds away from the Main Street theater collection, including the Regent. In turn, the venue's programming was changed from first-run films to second-run films. [1]
Thomas Lincoln Tally (1861 – November 24, 1945) [4] on or near April 16, 1902, opened the Electric Theatre in Los Angeles, the first movie theatre in that city and the first movie theater in California known to have been built from the ground up inside a larger building on the ground floor. (Photographs exist but rights are not available).
[17] [18] On March 16, 2020, the theater closed, following an order from Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti that all L.A. movie theaters must temporarily cease operations, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [19] On May 1, 2021, the New Beverly announced that they would be reopening on June 1. [20]
The first film shown at the Warner Cinerama was This is Cinerama, which grossed $3,845,200 ($43.6 million in 2023) 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 ($24.8 million in 2023).
The Downtown Independent (formerly the ImaginAsian Center) was a one screen theater and cinema located at 251 S. Main Street in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was operated by the Downtown Independent and owned by Orange County , California's Cinema Properties Group.
The Westlake was operated as a first-run movie theater from 1926 until the 1960s. As the neighborhood's demographics changed, the theater was sold to Metropolitan Theatres Corp., which showed Spanish-language or Spanish-subtitled movies. In 1991, the building was sold to Mayer Separzadeh, who converted the theater into a swap meet. To protect ...