People wearing protective masks walk past the closed Cinerama Dome during the Coronavirus pandemic on April 18, 2020, in Los Angeles.
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People wearing protective masks walk past the closed Cinerama Dome during the Coronavirus pandemic on April 18, 2020, in Los Angeles.
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ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theaters said late Monday that it had ceased operations, shutting down all of its nearly 300 screens, which are mostly located in California.
No one has inspired more distress among Hollywood notables from the Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
“After closing our doors for more than a year, we must share today the difficult and sad news that Pacific will not reopen sites for Arclight Cinemas and Pacific Theaters,” the company said in a statement.
The statement continues: “This was not the result that anyone wanted, but despite tremendous efforts that exhausted all potential options, the company does not have a viable path forward.”
The Cinerama Dome concrete geodesic dome was built to house the wide curved screen required for a single-lens cinerama. It opened in 1963 with the premiere of Stanley Kramer’s comedy widescreen movie It’s a crazy, crazy world – With its swinging end with a hook and a swinging ladder.
The Dome has since hosted dozens of Hollywood premieres, including Shrek 2, Which was painted green and fitted with tube ears. It has also appeared in movies and TV shows including Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Its closure has sent emotions flowing from Hollywood notables.
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt tweeted, “I’m so sad.” “I remember going to Cinerama to see Star Trek IV With my father when I was little. Lots of memories since then. “
Treet Williams, who starred in that musical, tweeted, “Sad. Poetry opened in the cinerama dome.”
And the Star Wars: The Last Jedi Director Ryan Johnson wrote on Twitter: “Well, that’s disgusting. Everyone who has worked on Arclight loved the movies, and it felt like it. Send love to every user, director, and show world by shaking the blue shirt and making it special.”
It is among the highest-grossing theaters in America, according to Limit, The Dome is now the latest victim of the pandemic that has shut down many of the world’s cinemas for more than a year.
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