Cinerama Dome Re-Opening Pushed To 2024 – Update
deadline.comUPDATED, EXCLUSIVE: We heard whispers about this at CinemaCon last week and sources have solidified for us: Hollywood’s famed and historic Cinerama Dome’s reopening is looking more and more like 2024.
Essentially, there’s still more work to be done on the Sunset Blvd venue. The delay will come as a great upset to those indie distributors who’ve savored the venue as a launchpad in Los Angeles.The pandemic didn’t just see the closure of the Cinerama Dome and the Arclight chain, but other prime arthouses such as Landmark’s crown Pico Blvd.
jewel location. Landmark recently announced they’re taking over the AMC Sunset Blvd Dine-In and re-opening it this summer. In the wake of the Dome’s closure, AMC Burbank and Century City locations have served as hubs for primo-indie debuts, i.e.
A24’s Beau Is Afraid saw both those multiplexes as its top theaters in LA during its opening weekend with respectively $68K and $50K. PREVIOUSLY, Sept 16, 2022: For those who forgot to read the news on Deadline back in December, it was never, ever in the cards for the Cinerama Dome to reopen this year.
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