After having done the darkness in the first days of the pandemic, an old Arclight theater in El Segundo will reopen with a new owner and will appoint Monday as a luxury cinema intended for film viewers from their sofas at home.
After 10 million dollars of upgrades, Cinemawest Beach Cities will have 16 screens and a restaurant of Hot-Dogs Pink which will serve alcohol and will also be open to non-movie.
It will be the 18th location for Cinemawest, a theater channel based in Petaluma, California, which operates cineplexes in California and Idaho, and a flagship location for the company “tied with private projection rooms in major studios”, said owner Dave Corkill.
Cinemawest Beach Cities will be the first theater to open in the County of Los Angeles in 2025 and one of the few who could open this year, according to IJM Enterprises, cinema development consultant.
With cinema habits scrambled in the streaming eraThe cinemas have lost part of their chandelier as an anchor tenants in shopping centers and other shopping centers. The owner of Cinemawest, however, Bance on the theater being a draw in Continental Park, a commercial development of 100 acres with 3 million square feet of office space, restaurants, shops and a hotel.
The cities of Cinemawest Beach, seen in a rendering, will have a restaurant and a pink bar bar with a separate entrance for non-movies.
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“I do not believe that a cinema is the key to attracting office tenants,” said owner Richard Lundquist, “but I think the cinema attracts restaurants, which then attract office tenants, so that they all go hand in hand. I think that will attract business.”
Lundquist is Managing Director of Continental Development Corp., who has developed the sprawling complex that rides avenue Rosecrans in the cities of El Segundo and Manhattan Beach. Other new additions to the continental park are a Erewhon Market is expected to open next month And Mattel television and cinema production studios This will open at the end of spring, he said.
In accordance with a movement through the theater industry, Cinemawest Beach Cities will offer features that imitate the experience of watching a film at home, such as reclining seats. But it will also have elements available only in a commercial setting, including A 4DX theater This will incorporate visuals on the screen with a variety of motion seat effects, perfumes and environmental effects such as rain, lightning, fog and wind. The construction of this theater should be completed next month.
There is also a theater with a vast screen format called Screenx, a multi-project system with a field of vision of 270 degrees which extends the image through the main screen on the walls on the right and left the theater to dive the public in the film.
He also has a giant screen theater with Dolby Atmos surround sound.
Pink's, a well-known restaurant in Los Angeles in the Fairfax district, will open a branch in the theater serving hot dogs, burgers and milkshakes. He will also have a full bar.
Arclight was launched in 2002 at Cinerama Dome in Hollywood with a pioneer luxury experience which has since become more common. Arclight had 11 locations, including six in the Los Angeles region, which closed in March 2020 while theaters were ordered for the pandemic.
Arclight announced in April 2021 that he would not reopen his theaters.
The opening of the Cinemawest theater is a bright point in a difficult period for cinema. The community of film production of the A recently completed a disturbing year while 2024 saw the second lowest level of production in Los Angeles, according to the non -profit agency Filmlala. He only overcome 2020, the year of closings linked to the pandemic.
