Cinemark Century North Hollywood
12827 Victory Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
91606
12827 Victory Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
91606
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I cannot stand some of the downstairs theaters. They are set up in this old-school fashion where the screen is way up and you have to look up to see it. So you’re not looking directly straight into the projection, which is annoying for your neck. Not every downstairs theater is like this, but I think at least two of them are
Auditorium 7 is becoming an XD auditorium. New seat count will be slightly higher. DBOX motion seats will also be added to that theater only.
The theater was built as a 7-plex in 1988 and theater 2 was split in May of 1995 (resulting in theatre 2 & 3). I just uploaded a 2004 photo of theatre 3 looking back at the projection booth. More at Cinematour.
I was just here yesterday and it seems to me that screens 2/3 and 4/5 may have been one big screen in the past and chopped into two. Screen 5 that I was in is an extremely narrow hallway of a theater. I wonder if the luxury seats make this theater feel smaller than when it had the bucket seats of the past? Also the floor slants upward to the screen in the front and the screen is about ten feet from the ground so it’s much higher than your typical screen.
Anyone know the history on this?
LA Times started on May 25th, 1988 and the Grand opening ad appeared on June 3rd, 1988. Grand opening ad posted.
I am glad to see this theater still opened! I remember seeing Ghostbusters 2, and waiting in a looooong line with a couple friends. When we finally got to the theater, it was their ‘spillover’ theater which seemed like a big-screen tv, LOL. One of the friends who went worked in FX (still does),and I remember going to see other films here that he worked on, or friends of ours who worked on other films. I remember seeing ‘Swamp Thing’ (the 80’s remake), and a couple others that I don’t remember here. But, again, it is always nice to see old places, especially theaters, still opened when I visit L.A.!
All seats throughout the complex were converted to ‘Cinemark Luxury Loungers’ in August 2015, and the building was rebranded ‘Cinemark North Hollywood’.
North Hollywood IS part of Los Angeles. WEST Hollywood is a separate city, NORTH Hollywood (and regular Hollywood) are suburbs of the City of Los Angeles.
This theatre is located in North Hollywood CA, not Los Angeles CA.
The upstairs theaters are much better now after upgrading to digital 3D projectors. There used to be allot of sound problems in those upstairs houses 2-3 years ago but now that seems to be fixed. Good to see Cinemark put some money in this small but still very much alive neighborhood theater. The downstairs houses are still tiny and it’s pretty amazing that they book some movies on such small screens in their first week of release. I guess management is doing the best they can with this old school theater. Way too crowded on the weekends, but still a nice place to catch a weekday matinee. Also lately I have seen an army of young kids working there so cleanliness and maintenece must be a priority now.
The Century 8 is very typical of multiplexes built in the late 1980s. Lots of mirrors and lots of red. The theater is aging and does show signs of its age and poor maintenance. But in all fairness many very new megaplexes, notably the Winnetka 21 in Chatsworth, have extremely poor janitorial quality. Much worse than the Century 8 considering their respective ages.
Its so sickening that when competition opens up they just throw up their arms and stop doing things like cleaning a bathroom. Some of these theatres might survive if they stayed well kept. Not everyone likes mega-plexes.