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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.
The Regent Theatre is a live music venue and historic former movie theater in the Downtown section of Los Angeles, California. Opened as the National Theatre in 1914, it is the oldest remaining theater building on South Main Street .
During the 1950s and 1960s, it was one of the premier first-run movie palaces in the Sacramento area. As the decade turned to the 1970s, it was reduced to mostly sub-run fare. In the early 1980s, the Crest closed down for a time while several attempts were made to revive the theatre in many forms, including a dinner theatre.
It was the first movie theater in Downtown Los Angeles equipped to accommodate talking pictures. [2] It is now owned by the Broadway Theatre Group. [12] The space was refurbished in 2021 for an Apple Store. [19] Rialto Theater. Rialto Theater – Movie theater – Located at 812 S. Broadway, the Rialto opened as Quinn's Rialto, a nickelodeon ...
Downtown Los Angeles's Paramount Theatre opened as Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre on January 26, 1923.The building was financed by the Hill Street Fireproof Building Company, designed by George Edwin Bergstrom with the theater and building interior designed by William Lee Woollett, all for impresario Sid Grauman, [2] known at the time for the Million Dollar Theatre and best remembered today ...
In most markets, nearly all single-screen theaters (sometimes referred to as a "Uniplex") have gone out of business; the ones remaining are generally used for arthouse films, e.g. the Crest Theatre [27] in downtown Sacramento, California, small-scale productions, film festivals or other presentations. Because of the late development of ...
The 1999 horror film End of Days briefly features the building as an abandoned movie theater. [1] The 2001 thriller film Swordfish depicts the Belasco. [1] The 2005 period drama film Memoirs of a Geisha features the theater. [1] The Belasco appears in the 2006 psychological thriller film The Prestige. [1]