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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 .
Specifically noted were the theater's neon signage, stucco facade, terrazzo and brick materials, and that the theater is the oldest in Hollywood. [4] The theater was shut down by Mann Theatres in 1992, [3] and two years later the Guinness World of Records Museum moved into the building. [5] In 2024, Hollywood Theatre was one of four Hollywood ...
In 1961, the theater was equipped to show 70 mm film, and in 1968, Stanley Warner sold the theater to Pacific Theatres, who renamed it Hollywood Pacific Theatre. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, two Stanley Kubrick films had long runs at the theater: 2001: A Space Odyssey , which had its west coast premiere here and played for 80 weeks, and A ...
Hollywood Pantages Theatre, the last theater built in the Pantages Theatre Circuit and also the last movie palace built in Hollywood, was built by Alexander Pantages in 1929 and opened on June 4, 1930. The theater was designed to seat 3,212, but it opened with extra legroom and wider seats, reducing seating capacity to 2,812.
The ArcLight chain opened in 2002 as a single theater, the ArcLight Hollywood in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and later expanded to eleven locations in California, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Illinois. The chain has been credited for pioneering features such as assigned seating, reclining chairs, and in-house bars and restaurants that were later ...
The theater that would become Fox Theater opened as Iris Theatre in 1918, after that theater relocated from 6415 to 6508 Hollywood Boulevard.The new theater, built in the Romanesque style by Frank Meline for P. Tabor, sat 1000 and was the second movie theater on Hollywood Blvd. [1]
The name Cinespia is a portmanteau word from the Italian cine, or "movie theater," and the third person singular conjugation of the verb spiare, meaning "to observe," or more commonly, "to spy." Conjoined, cinespia was intended to suggest a film enthusiast or "watcher of films," although the actual term for film buff in Italian is cinofilo .
Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, also known as Egyptian Hollywood and the Egyptian, is a historic movie theater located on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. [1] Opened in 1922, it is an early example of a lavish movie palace and is noted as having been the site of the world's first film premiere .