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The ongoing saga of the Cinerama Dome, among the most iconic movie theaters in Los Angeles<\/a>, took another twist Tuesday. Reports surfaced that Sony and Alamo Drafthouse, the theater chain owned by the company, have been in talks to take over operation of the venue.<\/p>\n

The theater and the adjacent 14-screen ArcLight Hollywood multiplex have been closed since March 2020. In April 2021 it was announced that the venue would not be reopening and it has sat dormant ever since, becoming the focus of intense public interest.<\/p>\n

The news of Sony and Alamo\u2019s interest in the property was first reported by Deadline<\/a>. Representatives for Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

A city hearing in May regarding alcohol sales at the site provided a rare opportunity for public comment on the property. <\/p>\n

\u201cI know that this has been hard and it has seemed like the citizens versus the ownership \u2014 that\u2019s not what it is,\u201d local preservation advocate Kim Cooper said. \u201cPeople want to come together and help and bring this place back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dome has long been owned by the family of William R. Forman \u2014 the founder of Pacific Theatres \u2014 who opened the Dome in 1963. In an interview with The Times following the May meeting, Elizabeth Peterson-Gower, a land use consultant representing the venue\u2019s owners, said the owners hoped to have a reopening time frame \u201cin the near future.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sony purchased the Austin, Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse<\/a> in 2024, with venues in major cities all across the U.S., including L.A. Though the Drafthouse chain was rooted in a fan-friendly ethos and a notoriously strict no-phones policy in its theaters, the company has recently come under fire for switching up the ordering system for its in-seat food service, forcing patrons to pull out their phones during a movie. <\/p>\n

The Cinerama Dome news comes on the heels of a strong summer of moviegoing<\/a>, as audiences have been flocking to theaters to see movies such as \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d \u201cToy Story 5,\u201d \u201cBackrooms\u201d and \u201cObsession.\u201d There has been a newfound attention on theatrical presentation and film formats, including the limited number of venues capable of projecting Imax 70mm or 70mm film, around the country.<\/p>\n

Theatergoing in L.A. has been undergoing a renaissance of its own<\/a>. The Alex Theatre in Glendale is showing a first-run movie with \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d for the first time since 1991, while the American Cinematheque has relaunched the Village Theatre in Westwood under the new name the Directors Village to acknowledge the consortium of filmmakers<\/a> who took over ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ongoing saga of the Cinerama Dome, among the most iconic movie theaters in Los Angeles, took another…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":951464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[45268,1582,276,383009,13140,6276,2961,224,2444,5337,11395,47448,3196,49070,10558,19061,5399,1148,383010,6191],"class_list":["post-951463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-alamo-drafthouse","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-cinerama-dome","tag-comment","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-may","tag-mm","tag-movie","tag-odyssey","tag-property","tag-sony","tag-talk","tag-theater","tag-theatrical-presentation","tag-venue"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116962729042665546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}