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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.
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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 ...
In October 2008 the Mann Chinese 6 Theatre complex in Hollywood was the first 3-D-ready commercial cinema to unveil the installation of Iosono technology, featuring 380 speakers. [9] In April 2009 the Mann Chinese 6 was among the first to present motion-enhanced theatrical films featuring 30 D-BOX motion controlled seats.
Cinespia, by contrast, means literally "he spies in the movie theater" or "cinema spy." [ 2 ] After attending a Valentino birthday celebration at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2002, Wyatt approached the owners through a friend who worked there [ 3 ] and arranged a screening of Alfred Hitchcock 's Strangers on a Train on July 20, 2002 [ 11 ...
The Roxie Theatre is a historic former movie theater in the Broadway Theater District of Los Angeles, California. The venue opened in 1931 as the last theater to be built on Broadway . Architect John M. Cooper 's Art Deco design of the Roxie remained the only theater of that style in the downtown neighborhood.
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 ...
The theater was purchased by the now-defunct Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles in 2008. [6] The CRA announced plans to rehabilitate the theater as a venue for live theater, film, music, and other performances. [7] Progress under the CRA/LA was slow. [8] [9] In 2018, the theater was sold for $2 million to Jamison Services ...