Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome theater, which has been shuttered for the reason that starting of the pandemic, won’t be reopening in 2024, sources confirmed on background. It’s hoped that the Dome and adjoining Arclight Theatres can be prepared for a 2025 opening.
The Cinerama Dome and Arclight remained closed even after different theaters reopened after COVID shutdowns and Pacific Theatres filed for chapter in 2021. The Decurion Corporation — the dad or mum firm of Pacific Theatres — stored the proper to make use of the Arclight and Pacific model names on the 14-screen Arclight Hollywood and the Cinerama Dome.
In 2022, the house owners, Decurion Corporation, acquired a liquor license and signaled the intention to vary the advanced’s title to Cinerama Hollywood.
Decurion subsidiary Pacific Theaters, which had operated the advanced earlier than submitting for chapter, gave up the opposite Arclight Theatres areas, most of which have been taken over by different operators. The Culver City location is now run by Amazon, whereas Regal took over the Pasadena theaters. The Santa Monica multiplex will probably reopen as a digital artwork set up.
The information of the 2025 date was first reported by Deadline, which indicated that the corporate will want extra time to finish renovations on the advanced.
William Forman constructed the Hollywood Cinerama Dome in 1963, one in every of a number of within the nation. The theater opened with the premiere of “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.” In 1998, preservationists rallied to maintain the dome construction intact after adjustments to the inside have been preserved.
Though the lengthy closure of the Arclight and Cinerama Dome theaters stays a sore spot for Los Angeles moviegoers, there was trigger to have a good time not too long ago with the reopening of Hollywood’s Egpytian Theatre, the Vista in Los Feliz, Vidiots in Eagle Rock and Landmark’s new Sunset Boulevard and Pasadena areas.
