ArcLight Hollywood

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ArcLight Hollywood
ArcLightandDome.jpg
ArcLight Cinemas and the Cinerama Dome.
Address6360 West Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood, California
United States
ParkingAdjacent garage
OwnerThe Decurion Corporation
Opened2002
Closed2021
Website
www.arclightcinemas.com
The courtyard entrance of the ArcLight Hollywood complex.

The ArcLight Hollywood had been a 15-screen multiplex located at 6360 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.[1] All 15 screens featured stadium seating, and carried a THX certification for optimal sound and picture presentation. The building is located adjacent to the Cinerama Dome, which was part of the ArcLight complex.

History[]

The theater opened on March 22, 2002. The ArcLight Hollywood was the first theatre in the ArcLight chain to open, and was considered to be the company's flagship. It was a subsidiary of The Decurion Corporation, which also owned Pacific Theatres.[1]

The theater had closed temporarily in March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 12, 2021, Pacific Theatres announced that both the entire ArcLight and Pacific Theatres chains would permanently be closed, citing the lack of a viable path forward after the pandemic. The parent company, The Decurion Corporation, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times that, “After shutting our doors more than a year ago, today we must share the difficult and sad news that Pacific will not be reopening its ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres locations,” Pacific Theatres said in a statement. “This was not the outcome anyone wanted, but despite a huge effort that exhausted all potential options, the company does not have a viable way forward.”[2]

On June 19, 2021, Regal Cinemas acquired the lease of the ArcLight Cinemas at Sherman Oaks Galleria. Regal had planned to remodel the cinema putting in $10M added Regal RPX, ScreenX, & 4DX.[3] The theater reopened in July 2021 as part of the Regal Cinemas chain.[4] In November 2021, it was announced that Landmark Theaters had reached an agreement on the lease's acquisition to The Glen Town Center's Arclight Cinemas in Glenview, Illinois and that it would reopen as part of the company's chain.[5] The following month, AMC Theatres announced that they had come to an agreement on the lease's acquisition to the Arclight Chicago 14 in Lincoln Park, Chicago, which will reopen as part of the AMC chain in 2022.[6]

Amenities[]

ArcLight Hollywood provided numerous amenities to its customers. Each theater had reserved seating.[1] The only promotional material shown before showtimes are trailers.[1] All of the ArcLight theaters sold alcohol at the concession stand.[7]

At showtime, immediately before the trailers begn, an Usher Greeter had introduced the film to the audience and state the ArcLight's policies regarding quality assurance, i.e. two ushers would remain in the theater until a few minutes after the film had begun, to ensure that the picture and sound quality were acceptable. The usher had also asked the audience to turn their cellphones to the silent function, and to refrain from texting.[8] Seating was prohibited after a film had begun, in correlation with ArcLight's slogan, “Your Movie Time Uninterrupted.”

As of September 2011, all ArcLight locations had shown digital presentations of their features. Each location had two houses with Kinoton 35mm projectors for archival and special presentations.

The ArcLight had routinely featured exhibits of local art or props and costumes from current films.

Seating[]

Tickets for all film showings had featured assigned seating. Upon purchasing a ticket, customers were allowed to select their preferred seat and see which seats had already been reserved. The only restriction was the inability to select a seat if it created a single seat space between an already reserved seat. This was to prevent orphan empty seats which had only been filled by a single individual.

Parking[]

Parking was located off Ivar to the west and DeLongpre to the south and off Sunset, just east of the Cinerama Dome in an adjacent garage. The parking garage was not originally owned by ArcLight, but was purchased by its parent company sometime in 2016.[9] The garage also served several restaurants, stores, and a gym located in the ArcLight complex, as well as the adjacent Amoeba Music, which had its own parking lot but offered validation at the Ivar structure as well.

Other locations[]

ArcLight Sherman Oaks had opened November 16, 2007, in place of the Galleria Pacific Theater, after extensive remodeling. The grand opening had taken place on 14 December.

On March 2, 2010, ArcLight had announced the opening of a new location in Pasadena at Pacific Theaters at Paseo Colorado. The new location opened in the Summer of 2010.

In late 2010, Pacific Theaters had refurbished an existing Pacific Theaters multiplex as an ArcLight in the South Bay Area of Los Angeles in the city of El Segundo. The new location was called "ArcLight Beach Cities".

In November 2012, ArcLight had opened its first location outside of Los Angeles County. The "ArcLight La Jolla", located in San Diego, California at Westfield UTC, was part of the mall's $180 million renovation.[10]

In October 2014, the first location outside California had opened at Westfield Montgomery in Bethesda, Maryland.[11]

In 2015, ArcLight had opened two locations in the Midwest, both in the state of Illinois. The first screen in Glenview, Illinois, opened in May 2015, followed by the second location in Chicago in November 2015. The Glenview location had previously been occupied by Regal and extensively remodeled to the chain's standards, while the Chicago location was the chain's first theatre constructed in the Midwest.

In addition to the ArcLight Chicago, the chain had opened the first of two proposed locations in Santa Monica, California in November 2015 in the newly remodeled Santa Monica Place. In August 2017, the developer for the second ArcLight screen announced that they were abandoning the deal, citing doubts about its profitability due to being in close proximity to the Santa Monica Place ArcLight screen. If completed, it had featured the first ArcLight IMAX screen.[12]

In January 2016, the first northeast location had been announced for ArcLight Boston in Boston, Massachusetts.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d The Los Angeles Times
  2. ^ Faughnder, Ryan (12 April 2021). "Pacific and ArcLight theaters will not reopen following the pandemic, company says". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  3. ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (19 June 2021). "Regal Cinemas Signs New Lease For Space Previously Occupied By Arclight Sherman Oaks". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  4. ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (15 July 2021). "Cineworld Boss Mooky Greidinger Says 'Black Widow' Could Have Opened To $110M+ In U.S. Without Day-And-Date Streaming: "The Way To Generate Maximum Income On A Movie Is With A Window"". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 19 September 2021. I would say that we have successfully opened Regal Sherman Oaks. I would really compliment our great team in real estate and in operations, which did the whole thing in record time. People really were so happy to get their local cinema back.
  5. ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (12 December 2021). "Landmark Takes Over Former Arclight Cinemas Glen Town Center Location In Illinois". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  6. ^ Goldsmith, Jill (2021-12-21). "AMC Entertainment Takes Over Two More Arclight Cinemas And Pacific Theatres – In LA, Chicago". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-12-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ https://www.arclightcinemas.com/
  8. ^ Denby, David (2006-12-25). "Big Pictures". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 15 January 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-15.
  9. ^ https://la.curbed.com/2016/10/31/13478302/hollywood-cinerama-dome-parking-structure-sale
  10. ^ "ArcLight Cinemas: No talking, cellphones, crying babies". U-T San Diego. November 2, 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
  11. ^ "ArcLight Cinemas Bethesda Preview Tour". Robert Dyer @ Bethesda Row. October 22, 2014.
  12. ^ https://la.curbed.com/2017/8/28/16216808/santa-monica-arclight-movie-theater-abandoned
  13. ^ "The Hub at Causeway: the Details on the Big TD Garden Party". January 29, 2016.

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