Beverly Center Cinemas 13
8522 Beverly Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90048
8522 Beverly Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90048
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My wife and I saw Runaways last weekend in Theater #1. I forgot how large that screen was! Really impressive. Ususally I associate the Bev Center with the unusually small screens downstairs. I think the last time I was upstairs was to see “Dying Young” with Julia Roberts almost 20 years ago. I’ll make and effort to go back the next time something decent is playing in #1. Can’t beat $7.00 a ticket for a late Saturday afternoon flick these days.
Movie was really entertaining as well.
By the way, out of curiosity I peeked into Theater #2 and Avatar was playing. As soon as I opened the door, I could smell that someone was smoking weed in there. I guess that’s who’s still seeing Avatar in 3D nearly 4 months after it’s release… Hope they had a great time :)
Yes, the Beverly Center opened in July 1982 with 14 screens. The theatre had so much success in its early years, the decision was made a couple years after opening to convert two smaller theatres into one, and then gut the two largest houses in order to build two even larger auditoriums on the roof of the building, which brings us to the current 13.
Did it originally have 14 screens? I wondered about that when I posted the 2/20 ad from 1983.
Not good enough. :)
You win the opportunity to tell us the real reason, then!
I’ll take that bet.
What do I win?
I’d bet it’s the same reason most other theaters do it in mid-range auditoriums: because if you want to keep a 3D movie in Week 4 or 5, it sucks to have to use the biggest auditorium for it.
Edward, I am curious why the DLP was installed in the smaller of the 2 upstairs houses…
Thank you, Chris. Glad you enjoyed it.
I saw “The Hurt Locker” in DLP here about a week ago.
WOW! Awesome presentation! Awesome exprience!
Here is a March 1983 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/ykjf2p3
I don’t know if anyone saw, but we installed a Real D system this week, and will be presenting UP in a limited return 3D engagement this coming Friday.
I may walk down to the Beverly Center this weekend and see Hurt Locker. Thanks for the info of the film being in the digital theatre.
Thanks, Mark.
Horror aficionados should be happy to hear we are scheduled to present all of the After Dark “8 Films to Die For” Horrorfest movies this year in digital projection, starting January 29th. But if you haven’t seen The Hurt Locker yet, this the time to see it, as it is back in our digital house, looking and sounding amazing. Make sure to sit in the balcony, as the sound up there is amazing.
I saw Boondock Saints 2 last night in house #3 and loved it! If I get a chance I will watch a show in house #2 soon!
Good to hear that Rave is taking an interest in exhibition in L.A. I’ll have to walk down to the Beverly Center next week while I am on holiday break. I don’t think I have seen a film there since the mid-90’s.
We installed a digital projector in house #2 yesterday (the smaller of the two big houses upstairs with balcony seating). We’ll be playing Hurt Locker in DLP until Thursday night and then New Moon will be in DLP starting Friday.
Rave should look into reviving Westwood and take over the leases of the Village and Bruin, and perhaps move with the plans of the multiplex Mann was considering.
Remember how some of us were wondering if Rave “unofficially” taking over this theatre was a ploy for them to enter the LA market?
BREAKING NEWS: Rave is closing a deal to buy 35 theatres from National Amusements – presumably including The Bridge Cinema de Lux in Westchester.
This Friday, we’ll be opening Where the Wild Things Are in our main house (450+ seats, 40ft screen, balcony seating), Couples Retreat in Theatre 2 (275+ seats and balcony seating) and The Box (in our largest auditorium on the main floor). Plus we’ll be keeping some really great movies including Black Dynamite, which is an absolute must see.
And if someone at CT can fix the name and link to the theatre’s website at the top of the page (it should be beverlycenter13 and not beverleycenter13), that’d be awesome. Thank you.
I can’t get their homepage to work.
And Fame is opening at the Beverly Center tomorrow, along with Pandorum, Love Happens, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Moon and From Mexico With Love.
Fame is still listed as Coming Soon.
For the Grove to not play all thee of those films would be a stretch… something tells me the site’s “Coming Soon” is a uniform image feed from the Rave server, given it looks just like the one on the Rave site. We’ll see in a matter of weeks, though.