TCL Chinese Theatre
6925 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
6925 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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I should add that the rendering comes from the last remodel and is not some future project.
The rendering linked previously is from a Canadian architectural design firm (Sceno Plus) that specializes in entertainment venues. They were commissioned to develop a remodel concept for the “VIP balcony”. It’s an architectual rendering (i.e. design concept) and not intended to be an exact or detailed depiction of the theatre.
And the Chinese has an aisle right down the center, which that mock up doesn’t.
has anyone been to the Chinese recently? In the forecourt they usually have the poster of their next attraction.
If that ain’t the cheesiest fake interior shot ever! The people ain’t real & everybody (in LA) knows that the balcony has been walled up! VIP Balcony? LOL!
jwballer: what is that shot from and for? Could not be from last night Book of Eli showing. Too many people!!!
BOOK OF ELI continues this next week, as we expected. My new guess is the next film that will be booked at this theater will be the next Denzel Washington film.
Well it’s only 13 more years till Sid’s original land lease is up. I believe the people holding the Village’s & Bruin’s leases have had them since the 50’s.
Everything for March 19, The Bounty Hunter, Greenberg, Diary of A Whimpy Kid, The Runaways, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo are opening at Arclight. The only film they do not list is Repo Men. Could the Chinese be getting a new movie? Is it a DBOX title? I know Mann does book Universal into the Chinese from time to time. Is it too much to ask for something new at the World’s Most Famous Movie Theatre?
It might still be there when the TCM Film Festival starts in April.
yep, according to movietickets.com Book of Eli will still be playing here this weekend. My god.
I believe Mann still owns the Chinese don’t they? They are trying to sell it, but I think they still own it. (CIM is currently the landowner and will become owner of the theater when the 99 year land lease that Sid Grauman took out expires several years from now. Mann never owned the Village or Bruin. They always had to lease those. In order for “you know who” to get the Chinese, they would have to actually buy it from Mann, instead of merely taking over a lease like they are doing in Westwood.
Is “you know who” getting Chinese just like they’re (allegedly) getting Village and (maybe) Bruin?
I saw that on Movietickets thing for the tour. Maybe they are going to stop showing films all together. ALL of next week’s new releases (March 12)Green Zone, She’s Out of My League, Remember Me and Our Family Wedding are opening at Arclight (tix for Midnight Shows now on sale). The Chinese has not had a new booking since January 15th with The Book of Eli. Seems funny they would start a Facebook page indeed.
they put the Chinese up for sale and are not renewing the leases on the Village and Bruin. Why start a Facebook page now? For the past couple of years they have been giving every indication they are getting out of this business. Weird.
Another weird thing. At movietickets they now list showtimes for the ‘Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Tour’.
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FYI:
Mann has a Facebook page now. You can access it on thier main website page. I just posted a bit of my displeasure of them on thier Facebook wall.
Here is an August 1967 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/ykf7u39
I think it is obvious at this point that Mann does not care. They are slow closing shop all over Southern California. I’m curious to see if someone is getting ready to take over the lease, and they are just coasting.
The Crazies will be the next D-Box release. However, it looks to be playing as a moveover on the format as Arclight is selling tickets for it at midnight.
will clash be in 3d at this theater? Should be a fun ride with 3d and dbox.
The Arclight runs a lot of indie titles also.
Great history of this theatre.
Probably the next big film they will get will be Clash of the Titans, with DBOX at the Chinese 6.
Even the Westwood theaters have had better bookings! It’s pathetic, but I guess the logic is that tourists are the main audience for the Chinese anyway, so why do much more than is needed to please them…
So what’s next? BROOKLYN’S FINEST, one would hope. The Chinese usually doesn’t get Overture releases, but it doesn’t seem like securing this one (which skews a lot less indie and therefore less ArcLight) would be too hard.
Well, The Chinese is not getting Cop Out, Arclight has tickets for sale already for it. The Chinese will go through the entire month of February without a major release. Amazing.