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The Emoji Movie premiere, Westwood Village. The Regency Village Theatre (formerly the Fox Theatre, Westwood Village or the Fox Village Theatre) is a historic, landmark cinema in Westwood, Los Angeles, California in the heart of the Mediterranean-themed shopping and cinema precinct, opposite the Fox Bruin Theater, near the University of California, Los Angeles ().
In 1924, Los Angeles theater proprietor H. L. Gumbinger closed the facility for renovation. The overhaul included the addition of a 16-piece house orchestra. [6] Gumbinger reopened the building as the Cameo Theatre on August 1, 1924, with a premiere of the Universal Pictures silent drama The Signal Tower attended by its director and co-stars. [7]
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).
Vista Theatre opened on October 9, 1923, [2] as a single-screen theater. In addition to screening films, the theater also showed vaudeville acts on stage. [3] Originally known as Lou Bard Playhouse on opening day in 1923, the cinema played the film Tips starring Baby Peggy. [4]
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 ...
Historic district adjacent to Central Avenue Corridor in South Los Angeles; part of the African Americans in Los Angeles Multiple Property Submission (MPS) 2: 52nd Place Historic District: 52nd Place Historic District: June 11, 2009 : Along E. 52nd Place [6
The Million Dollar was the first movie house built by entrepreneur Sid Grauman in 1918 as the first grand cinema palace in L.A. [6] Grauman was later responsible for Grauman's Egyptian Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, both on Hollywood Boulevard, and was partly responsible for the entertainment district shifting from downtown Los Angeles to Hollywood in the mid-1920s.