Please update, theatre schedule to be closed for renovations starting January 15, 2026 for about a year, schedule to increase to 3 screens. Closing ad in photos section
Regency Theatres is new owner of Claremont Laemmle 5 November 24th, 2025 by Mick Rhodes |
Regency Theatres, a private, family owned company with 28 locations in Southern California including in Azusa, Fontana, and Pasadena, as well as screens in Arizona, Nevada, and Hawaii, will take ownership of the Laemmle Claremont 5 in late January.
“We hope that everybody will support the new operator so that Claremont can maintain, still continue to have its own movie theater,” said Laemmle Theatres President and CEO Greg Laemmle, who declined to disclose the purchase price.
Laemmle patrons must use their gift cards, premier cards, and frequent moviegoer tickets prior to the ownership change.
With the sale, the Laemmle chain of seven theaters will be reduced to six.
“We’ve had other locations where it’s still a challenge in part,” Laemmle said when asked if the company has seen downturns at other locations. “I will say, the older audience is not back and that has been our bread and butter.”
The loss of pre-pandemic levels of support at the Claremont theater following its March 2020 to April 2021 COVID-19-related closure, along with the siphoning off of customers to the new AMC in Montclair were primary reasons behind the decision to sell, Laemmle said.
“I mean, there’s a significant percentage of the box office in the specific submarket around Claremont has moved to a new venue and that’s a factor,” Laemmle said. “The pandemic closure clearly was a major impact on moviegoing. And we’ve seen other theaters that have come back, whether ours or others in the industry that have come back, but more significantly, Claremont
has not.”
Laemmle acknowledged the “creature comforts” of the nearby Montclair AMC — oversized reclining seats, an IMAX theater, and in theater food delivery — may have also been factors in the lack of traffic at the Claremont location.
“You know, we are dealing with a 17-year-old theater,” he said of the Claremont location. “I think we’re well maintained and I argue well programmed. That may be the case and maybe what the venue needs. If I’m taking myself and my ego out of the equation, it may just need a new refresh. And I think this is an opportunity, and Regency maybe has an opportunity to bring a new fresh set of eyes to this venue.”
Laemmle downplayed streaming services as a significant market factor driving the decision to close its Claremont theater.
“People are going to movies,” Laemmle said. “The numbers are down, but they are coming back to some approximation of pre-pandemic levels. We’re still not seeing as many wide releases in the marketplace. And … if there’s fewer films for people to earn revenue, you’re going to see lower box office. So, I don’t see that a factor.”
The company, founded by Greg Laemmle’s grandfather Max and his brother Kurt in 1938, began with one screen in Highland Park. Over the ensuing 87 years the chain has expanded and contracted. The era of streaming and massive multiplexes with reclining chairs represents only the latest changes to a marketplace he and his forebears have navigated for three generations.
“There’s a very strong echo of what happened in the late 40s and early 50s, when TV was introduced and had a major impact on moviegoing patterns,” Laemmle said. “My grandfather was operating six theaters in the post-World War II period and that was reduced over a few years to one location” in Los Feliz.
That arrangement began to change in 1964, when the chain began expanding once again.
“A new generation came along, started embracing movies, not just embracing movies, but embracing the kind of adult fare that we specialized in from the time that we added the Esquire Theater in Pasadena in 1964 until 2018 when we opened Glendale,” Laemmle said. “We were consistently looking at new locations and redeveloping different models for the chain. During those years, we were also closing theaters because that just happens. There’s always a natural ebb and flow. But as a company, we were definitely in a growth mode and I hope to get back to it.”
Laemmle was circumspect when asked how that might look going forward.
“I think about that. We’re halfway through … what was the prior recovery period,” he said. “I mean, look, I think moviegoing is still here. It’s here to stay. But what the model is for Laemmle Theatres in that environment is something we’re still trying to figure out.”
Laemmle Claremont 5 opened in 2007 — the same year Netflix began its streaming service — as part of the then new Village West expansion.
“It’s been a great,” Laemmle said. “It’s really been an honor and a pleasure doing business in the city of Claremont. And again, we hope that everybody will support the new operator so that Claremont can still continue to have its own movie theater. It’s important for the community to have that kind of gathering place.”
Laemmle released a statement about the sale on November 20, which is viewable at laemmle.freshdesk.com, search “Claremont sale.”
Posted grand opening ad in photos section
Seating Capcity:
Theatre 1 109
Theatre 2 103
Theatre 3 93
Theatre 4 99
Theatre 5 66
Theatre 6 78
Theatre 7 68
CINEMARK recently added 6 screens with DBOX motion seating
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 158 with DBOX
Theatre 2 95 with DBOX
Theatre 3 79
Theatre 4 46
Theatre 5 55
Theatre 6 65
Theatre 7 60
Theatre 8 and 10 39
Theatre 9 59
Theatre 11 89
Theatre 12 91
Theatre 13 221 XD with DBOX
Theatre 14 196 XD with DBOX
Theatre 15 90
Theatre 16 88
Theatre 17 and 19 60
Theatre 18 39
Theatre 20 53
Theatre 21 54
Theatre 22 46
Theatre 23 80
Theatre 24 94 with DBOX
Theatre 25 156 with DBOX
Seating Capacity
Theatre 1 and 2 100
Theatre 3 28
Theatre 4 and 6 47
Theatre 5 46
Theatre 7 116
Please rename theatre Regency Koreatown by Regency Theatre website (see photo in photos section)
Please update, total screens is 12, Cinemark closed off the upper level. Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 130
Theatre 2 138
Theatre 3 and 4 139
Theatre 5 129
Theatre 6 146
Theatre 7 136
Theatre 8 140
Theatre 9 154
Theatre 10 212 with DBOX 22 70MM dts equipped
Theatre 11 108 wtih 30 DBOX seats
Theatre 12 242 XD
Theatres 13 to 18 are closed permently, those were the capacity when the theatres used to be open.
Theatre 13 291 with 30 DBOX seats
Theatre 14 297
Theatre 15 292
Theatre 16 295
Theatre 17 212
Theatre 18 210
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 216 IMAX with Laser
Theatre 2 and 8 96
Theatre 3 97
Theatre 4 and 5 68
Theatre 6 and 7 98
Theatre 9 and 11 114
Theatre 10 117
Theatre 12 106
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 Never Bult
Theatre 2 186 MACRO XE (NEW)
Theatre 3 179
Theatre 4 and 5 106
Theatre 6 and 11 83
Theatre 7, 8, 9 and 10 77
Theatre 12 and 13 68
Theatre 14 130 JUNIOR
Theatre 15 152 4DX
Please update, temporarily closed as per website due to the fires.
Just uploaded a better grand opening ad in the photos section
eating Capacity:
Theatre 1, 4, 10 and 11 49
Theatre 2 40
Theatre 3 67
Theatre 5 146
Theatre 6 73
Theatre 7 100
Theatre 8 and 9 115
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 45
Theatre 2 46
Theatre 3 56
Theatre 4 99
Theatre 5 266 XD
Theatre 6, 16 and 17 44
Theatre 7 50
Theatre 8 61
Theatre 9 70
Theatre 10 and 11 60
Theatre 12 51
Theatre 13 266 XD
Theatre 14 90 with DBOX
Theatre 15 49 with DBOX
Theatre 16 and 17 44
This theatre now has 3 DBOX installations installed, revised seating capacity:
Theatre 1 and 2 90
Theatre 3, 7 and 8 54
Theatre 4 129 with DBOX
Theatre 5 128 with DBOX
Theatre 6 127 with DBOX
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 95 with Dbox
Theatre 2 and 18 56
Theatre 3 and 17 69
Theatre 4 and 16 67
Theatre 5 and 15 58
Theatre 6 and 14 41
Theatre 7 42
Theatre 8 and 14 41
Theatre 9 92
Theatre 10 114 with Dbox
Theatre 11 168 XD and Dbox
Theatre 12 48
Theatre 13 68
Please update total screens to 18 and total seats 3606. AMC hasn’t used screen 19 thru 24 in over a year.
Please update, total seats 1,217 and 3 DBOX screens recently added
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 98 seats
Theatre 2, 3 and 13 59 seats
Theatre 4 and 11 49 seats
Theatre 5, 6 and 14 99 seats
Theatre 7 193 seats XD and DBOX
Theatre 8 126 seats with DBOX
Theatre 9 92 seats with DBOX
Theatre 10 98 seats
Theatre 12 78 seats
Please update, theatre opened March 10,2006, grand opening ad in the photos seciton
Please update, theatre schedule to be closed for renovations starting January 15, 2026 for about a year, schedule to increase to 3 screens. Closing ad in photos section
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 245 IMAX
Theatre 2 and 3 107
Theatre 4, 6 and 7 128
Theatre 5 155
Theatre 8 and 9 175
Please rename theatre to Cinemark Willowbrook Mall XD and Screen X as per website, this location just got Screen X and 3 DBOX screens installed.
New Total Seats: 1,043
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 57
Theatre 2 59
Theatre 3, 4, 11 and 12 44
Theatre 5 103
Theatre 6 96 with DBOX
Theatre 7 161 with DBOX and SCREEN X
Theatre 8 184 with DBOX and XD
Theatre 9 and 10 103
Regency Theatres is new owner of Claremont Laemmle 5
November 24th, 2025
by Mick Rhodes |
Regency Theatres, a private, family owned company with 28 locations in Southern California including in Azusa, Fontana, and Pasadena, as well as screens in Arizona, Nevada, and Hawaii, will take ownership of the Laemmle Claremont 5 in late January.
“We hope that everybody will support the new operator so that Claremont can maintain, still continue to have its own movie theater,” said Laemmle Theatres President and CEO Greg Laemmle, who declined to disclose the purchase price.
Laemmle patrons must use their gift cards, premier cards, and frequent moviegoer tickets prior to the ownership change.
With the sale, the Laemmle chain of seven theaters will be reduced to six.
“We’ve had other locations where it’s still a challenge in part,” Laemmle said when asked if the company has seen downturns at other locations. “I will say, the older audience is not back and that has been our bread and butter.”
The loss of pre-pandemic levels of support at the Claremont theater following its March 2020 to April 2021 COVID-19-related closure, along with the siphoning off of customers to the new AMC in Montclair were primary reasons behind the decision to sell, Laemmle said. “I mean, there’s a significant percentage of the box office in the specific submarket around Claremont has moved to a new venue and that’s a factor,” Laemmle said. “The pandemic closure clearly was a major impact on moviegoing. And we’ve seen other theaters that have come back, whether ours or others in the industry that have come back, but more significantly, Claremont has not.”
Laemmle acknowledged the “creature comforts” of the nearby Montclair AMC — oversized reclining seats, an IMAX theater, and in theater food delivery — may have also been factors in the lack of traffic at the Claremont location.
“You know, we are dealing with a 17-year-old theater,” he said of the Claremont location. “I think we’re well maintained and I argue well programmed. That may be the case and maybe what the venue needs. If I’m taking myself and my ego out of the equation, it may just need a new refresh. And I think this is an opportunity, and Regency maybe has an opportunity to bring a new fresh set of eyes to this venue.”
Laemmle downplayed streaming services as a significant market factor driving the decision to close its Claremont theater.
“People are going to movies,” Laemmle said. “The numbers are down, but they are coming back to some approximation of pre-pandemic levels. We’re still not seeing as many wide releases in the marketplace. And … if there’s fewer films for people to earn revenue, you’re going to see lower box office. So, I don’t see that a factor.”
The company, founded by Greg Laemmle’s grandfather Max and his brother Kurt in 1938, began with one screen in Highland Park. Over the ensuing 87 years the chain has expanded and contracted. The era of streaming and massive multiplexes with reclining chairs represents only the latest changes to a marketplace he and his forebears have navigated for three generations.
“There’s a very strong echo of what happened in the late 40s and early 50s, when TV was introduced and had a major impact on moviegoing patterns,” Laemmle said. “My grandfather was operating six theaters in the post-World War II period and that was reduced over a few years to one location” in Los Feliz.
That arrangement began to change in 1964, when the chain began expanding once again.
“A new generation came along, started embracing movies, not just embracing movies, but embracing the kind of adult fare that we specialized in from the time that we added the Esquire Theater in Pasadena in 1964 until 2018 when we opened Glendale,” Laemmle said. “We were consistently looking at new locations and redeveloping different models for the chain. During those years, we were also closing theaters because that just happens. There’s always a natural ebb and flow. But as a company, we were definitely in a growth mode and I hope to get back to it.”
Laemmle was circumspect when asked how that might look going forward.
“I think about that. We’re halfway through … what was the prior recovery period,” he said. “I mean, look, I think moviegoing is still here. It’s here to stay. But what the model is for Laemmle Theatres in that environment is something we’re still trying to figure out.”
Laemmle Claremont 5 opened in 2007 — the same year Netflix began its streaming service — as part of the then new Village West expansion.
“It’s been a great,” Laemmle said. “It’s really been an honor and a pleasure doing business in the city of Claremont. And again, we hope that everybody will support the new operator so that Claremont can still continue to have its own movie theater. It’s important for the community to have that kind of gathering place.”
Laemmle released a statement about the sale on November 20, which is viewable at laemmle.freshdesk.com, search “Claremont sale.”
Please update, total seats 890
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 94
Theatre 2 42
Theatre 3 53
Theatre 4 78
Theatre 5 177
Theatre 6 177
Theatre 7 78
Theatre 8 53
Theatre 9 42
Theatre 10 96
Please rename cinema Basie Center Cinema House as per theatre website
Please correct, the theatre is now 3 screens and total seats is 330
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 130
Theatre 2 86 (Upstairs)
Theatre 3 114 (upstairs)
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 238
Theatre 2 241
Theatre 3 76
Theatre 4 69
Theatre 5 87
Theatre 6 146
Theatre 7 136
Theatre 8 130
Theatre 9 293 Xtreme/Atmos
Theatre 10 238