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Metropolitan Theatres was founded by Joseph Corwin in 1923. [2] At the time, the Corwin family operated almost every movie theater in downtown Los Angeles's Broadway Theater District, the city's premiere theater venue until Hollywood was built up in the 1920s and 30s. [1] [4] [5] In the 1950s, Metropolitan Theatres expanded into Santa Barbara. [3]
Hollywood Theater opened on December 20, 1913, the second to open in Hollywood's emerging theater district. A 700-seat Nickelodeon, [1] it was owned by H.L. Lewis and designed in the Romanesque style by Krempel and Erkes. [2] In 1927, the theater was remodeled by Clifford Balch and in 1936, it was remodeled a second time by S. Charles Lee.
In July 2022, Amazon acquired the lease of the former Culver City, California location and planned to operate it as its first movie theatre. [38] It reopened as the Culver Theatre in December 2022. [39] In April 2023, it was announced that Regal had acquired the lease to the former ArcLight theater at The Paseo in Pasadena, California.
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.
Cinefamily programming included a range of films, from early silents to contemporary features, [13] live comedy, live music, found footage, mixed media and other special events, and extended form post-screening Q&As. [11] They mounted original retrospectives on filmmakers Jim Henson, Jerry Lewis, [14] John Cassavetes, [15] and Andrzej Zulawski [16] and commissioned live film scores by ...
The Tower was the first film house in Los Angeles to be wired for talking pictures, and it was the location of the sneak preview and Los Angeles premiere of Warner Bros.' revolutionary part-talking The Jazz Singer (1927), starring Al Jolson. [8] [4] [9] It was the first theater in Los Angeles to be air conditioned. [4]