Cinerama Dome Now Planning To Reopen In 2025

deadline.com:

EXCLUSIVE: A big upset to distributors before 2024 happens: The Cinerama Dome and adjacent former Arclight Cinemas won’t be reopening next year.

Instead, mark your calendars for an anticipated Q2 2025 re-opening, Deadline hears. The delay is largely due to the redesign that is going on in the space including restaurants and event space, etc and has nothing to do with 2024’s broken theatrical release calendar; left bare on several weekends due to the fallout from the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes this year.

Since the Cinerama Dome and sister Arclight Cinema have shuttered, distributors have arthouse fare have cried that the Los Angeles market hasn’t been the same, particularly with the closure of The Landmark on Pico Blvd back in May 2022.

This despite the fact that some of that arthouse business has segued over to AMC’s Burbank and Century City locales. The Cinerama Dome shuttered in April 2021 as its parent company Pacific Theatres Exhibition which owned the high-end luxe Arclight Cinemas, went into Chapter 7 bankruptcy.