TCL Chinese Theatre

Agreed. Hopefully the new owners are more aggressive in their bookings than Mann was (who I think just didn’t care any longer).

But separate from the bookings, the thing they have the most control over (and the thing Mann REALLY let lapse) is creating a better experience overall. Arclight’s motto is “Where Movie Lovers Belong.” The last few years, The Chinese’s seemed to be “You’re Probably Not Doing Anything Else, Right.” They need more of the former and less of the latter. Movie lovers are loyal. Tourists… not so much.

That’s nice to hear Segask. They didn’t do that for the Thursday midnight show. Although they also didn’t have a pre-show video presentation. Hopefully the new owners are taking a cue from the Arclight playbook and are going to attempt to class the place up (which seems odd to say considering it’s the world-famous Chinese). The sad truth is, in addition to the horrible bookings from the last few years, The Chinese has been attracting (intentional or not) a “lower class” of movie-goer. Too many talkers, teens, cell phoners… you know, tourists. I can go to a Saturday night 8:00 show in the Dome and almost always have a great experience. Saturday at The Chinese is an almost guaranteed recipe for a disruptive disaster. I would absolutely rather see Harry Potter DH2 at The Chinese over The Dome if I knew the audience could keep it together. I think there are others out there who have all but abandoned The Chinese because the environment there has become so low-class in the last few years.

Now if they could also add on-line reserved seating- that would be a whole new world of awesome.

AMC box offices basically have a binder full of pictures of acceptable passes, and often employees either don’t know it exists or can’t use their judgment to match the passes.

Actually AMC still accepts both Loews and (if you still have them) GCC passes

A decent sized, happy crowd for the midnight X-Men show. Was good to see a line on Hollywood Blvd for the first time in I don’t remember how long.

The LAHTF has been given assurance that there will be no “Gulla Gate” walling off the Chinese forecourt and that that picture (uploaded now onto this website, see Photos tab above) is going to be removed from the Gulla Jonsdottir site.

I changed my profile from BRADE41 to BRADE48.

On Movie Tickets.com it is listed as The Chinese Theatre. Wouldn’t it be better to still call it Grauman’s Chinese? What else other than X-MEN is booked for this Summer? I’d like to go but not really into comic book movies. I feel I should go as much as possible before they change it to EVENT Center.

not sure what to think of this but clicking through the website there was a link to a designers website two things that stood out were the chinese 6 being listed at the kodak 6 with a completely redesigned lobby,I do think the lobby design looks rather sleek and cool. But the other thing i noticed was this concept art of the Graumans chinese theatre with what appears to be a gate infront of it. Can they do this? wouldnt this be classified as altering the exterior of the building? isnt this theatre a cultural and historic city landmark and as such changes to the exterior are prohibited? further more if they do that what are the odds they might start preventing access to the forcourt after hours or worse yet charge admission to walk around the courtyard? http://www.gplusdesign.com/graumans-chinese-theater-2/

Chris your right, the studios really should consider booking films at both the chinese and the arclight, there is precidence for dual bookings at locations look at the Mann glendale theatres and the Pacific Americana theatres they are right across the street from each other and both get the same features, and the Vista and The Arclight book the same main feature alot of times. Its not like the arclight and the chinese are across the street or even on the same block, they are a good mile to mile and a half apart. I wonder if it boils down to politics as to the reason why they mainly book at arclight. The thing i never understood was why if Mann was owned by Paramount and WB did Paramount and WB hardly ever book there A list film in the crown jewel of Hollywood Cinemas. still scratching my head on this one. Hopefully if the studios still refuse to book A list titles at the chinese the new owners will think to sue (like the vista did) to get the studios to start booking the big Alist films. I went to see African Cats at the Chinese 6 on Saturday night, I was happy to see that they kept on members of the management,and some of the world class staff members from when it was Mann operated.

Needless to say, CT Gatekeepers, this theatre’s description – along with removal of Mann’s link and putting Chinese Theatres link in its place – needs to be updated.

And somebody tell me what other friggin theatres does Chinese own? They have it splashed in their About page that they own 54 screens or somthing like that. That’s news to me!

someone noted that’s it’s over at the Landmark in 4K digital projection

In case no one has noticed,the LA Times is listing it as “The Chinese Theatre & Chinese 6 Theatres” with only nighttime shows for both venues shown. Truly sad,indeed.

Somehow they’re managing to book X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. Maybe the new team has savvier bookers. IMO, they should offer Grauman’s and 3 more screens at Chinese 6 as bait for any major blockbusters they feel like booking. Day and date with ArcLight ala “Terminator Salvation” ain’t a bad idea, either.