Keanu Reeves joined Sandra Bullock to lead a 30th anniversary screening of their 1994 action thriller “Speed” at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday.The screening united the stars in a Q&A with “Speed” director Jan de Bont as part of Beyond Fest 2024. The event ends this week after a two-week spree of screenings and guest appearances, among them Al Pacino, Kyle MacLachlan, Sarah Paulson and Ron Perlman.At the sold-out Egyptian, delighted “Speed” fans and industry types cheered as Reeves, playing LAPD SWAT officer Jack Traven, and Bullock as “wildcat” Annie, foil a psychotic extortionist, played by a brilliantly deranged Dennis Hopper, who holds the city to ransom with bomb plants.
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California, notable as the home of the U.S. film industry, including several of its historic studios. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people associated with it.
Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910 and soon thereafter, a prominent film industry emerged, eventually becoming the most recognizable in the world.