Regal LA Live
800 W. Olympic Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90015
800 W. Olympic Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90015
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Visited this place on 11/1. The verdict: IT’S A BUST!
My prophecy fulfilled itself: It literally is 1 big auditorium and 13 skinny, postage stamp sized screens with top down masking. YUCK!
Arclight has nothing to worry about. The downtown area folks who don’t care too much about optimum cinematic presentation will eat this place up, though. The folks who dwell on this page and CinemaTour will undoubtdly fire me off a round of “I Told You So’s” for the next week.
It should not be surprising; as noted by Chris Utley above, both Regal and L.A. Live complex are owned by the same person.
I wonder if REGAL , being so anti-union is using IA projectionists in a pro-union town.Sorta surprized this Knoxville theatre chain is this far from home. Was just wondering if the candygirls are running the films?
That’s why I stopped eating concession food…Arclight popcorn included!
Wow, did you see the calories listed on the vid screens here? It made me never want to eat or drink anything at a theater again. Popcorn, a drink and a hot dog adds up to a person’s entire suggested calories for a day! Ugh!
Well good luck. Hollywood Blvd only has the Chinese (great projection and sound) and El Capitan (for Disney films only) left showing films. The Egyptian is curated by the American Cinemateque and most of the original decor is lost. All other theatres are closed. Most people attend the modern Arclight movie complex.
The downtown movie palaces are all closed and only show movies on special occasions like the Last Remaining Seats series. The Million Dollar, although in poor condition, was amazing to see for a one time screening of Mildred Pierce. The Mayan, one of the most spectacular movie palace interiors in the US is only open on occasion as a nightclub and concert venue. Fantastic decor in original condition.
Downtown was lacking a new theatre and LA Live is looking to fill the gap.
When I come to the movie capitol of the world, I expect to see a movie in a real movie palace, preferably on Hollywood Blvd., or one of the old downtown palaces, Orpheum, Los Angeles,Palace, etc.on a real WIDE SCREEN, I attend a drive- in that has a screen 75 X 150. Now thats wide !
Cannot really say this theatre excites me. I’ll probably never patronize it.
The opening of the theater last night coincided with a Lakers-Clippers season opener last night, which I saw part of. After the ring ceremony was over, TNT showed an overhead shot of the LA Live complex, complete with ESPN’s new studios, the shopping area, the Staples Center, and the Regal 14 cinema.
To clarify Scott’s comment, both AEG & Regal are owned by the same guy – Philip Anschutz. He operates AEG & Regal as separate companies, so when the whole LA Live thing was conceived, it was a given that Regal would be the operator.
“Carnival cruise ship ‘Deco’ with a suburban shopping center facade.” LOL It should have been called the Poseidon Center.
These are photos from the opening.
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At best, its Carnival cruise ship ‘Deco’ with a suburban shopping center facade. The Grove did the faux retro thing better and the Arclight will remain the better place to see films. A welcome addition to the LA cinema scene but a disppointment in terms of design.
AEG likely built the complex. AEG does not own Regal. As for the complex, I’m sure it’s fancier than a regular Regal Cinema, but it’s probably not too much to write home about.
Another potential ray of optimism – most Regals spread their 14-16 screens on the same ground level. This one has 7 screens spread out on 2 different floors – which means they may have created more space in their auds.
Crossing my fingers in hopes that Regal actually GOT! THIS! RIGHT! for a change.
If it is all common width screens then that is a deal breaker. Why do these theater chains always cheap out on the most important thing?
I’m going on Sunday. I’ll have a report.
Ok great, thanks William and CinemarkFan….Speaking of Chicago, I read today that Muvico has pulled out of the Block 37 project. Too bad, it would have been nice having a movie theatre right in the heart of the Loop again.
Tim, when you go to that site, look at the bottom of the exterior photo. There should be numbers 1-12 and “full screen”. Click on #8 to see the balcony shot of the screen.
When you see the screen, look at the bottom left & bottom right of the screen (bottom right is more visible), there’s a square opening that’s most likely the exit door. It’s just like the exit doors at the AMC River East here in Chicago.
I hope that because it’s a balcony shot, the visual impact is lessened. Because I’m in Chicago (and broke), I won’t be able to see the place up close. So if anybody visits, please give us a report on the main screen. I hope my suspicions are proven wrong.
Those photos are in the “This” link on CinemarkFan’s post on Oct. 27th at 12:58pm. The photo number appear under the main exterior photo.
Where are those photos? I clicked on that site and it only showed an exterior night shot.
CinemarkFan:
That’s a balcony shot…and a pretty murky one so I can’t tell where the heck the exit doors are.
The shot just before that one has a 3 aisle configuration – always a tell tale sign of (semi) proper widescreen presentation.
This article – View link – says that the screen is 75 x 38 feet By comparison, The Dome is 86 x 32 feet.
The first 3 points don’t matter! The Premiere House can have all the ballyhoo it wants – if the other 14 screens are all 40 x 22 feet, then the place is a BUST! All the flashy neon and chandeliers in the world won’t compensate for seeing Avatar on a postage stamp sized screen in December! That’s what makes Arclight Arclight – they put just as much care into their regular auditoriums as they did for the whole complex.
I believe AEG owns Regal. I’ve read articles on the theater that refer to them as AEG Regal LA Live.
And yeah, 14 screens is too much. I could see playing it on 7 of the screens, then you could program 7 other flicks too.
Anyway, I’m even more determined to get my theater corpration off the ground and get ahold of a proposed development here in Chicago, because the location would be perfect for me to construct a theater that would put to rest this “premiere” screen at LA Live. I mean c'mon, they spent 100 million dollars to build this place, and they couldn’t get the screen right. When I think of “premiere auditorium”, I think of a screen that looks almost as big as this
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Can’t help but think that opening the Michael Jackson film “This Is It” on all 14 screens is overkill. Oh, that’s right – doesn’t AEG own LA Live?
Uhh Chris, I looked at the photo of the screen in the “premiere” auditorium, and it looks like Regal couldn’t curb their habbit of top-down screen masking. If you look closely at picture #8 at this link, you can see that the screen while covered up with curtains, has exit doors close on both sides of screen. It’s a setup just like the new AMC builds, or Pacific Grove 14. And with that setup, you know that the screen can’t expand at the sides.
Oh well, it least the decor looks great. Kudos to Regal for that. But for those in LA, the
W-I-D-E-S-C-R-E-E-N experience is at the Arclight or Grauman’s Chinese.
I look forward to building a movie theater in the future, because when it comes to “wall-to-wall screens”, I’m going to show them how it’s done.
Just checked out Fandango…looks like “This Is It” is staying on all 14 screens through Friday.