Beverly Center Cinemas 13

looks like some words are missing. Also what is an RMP?

I wondered that, too, but the auditoriums aren’t really long enough for that. In that case, you’d have a setup like the MPark 4, where the auditorium is ridiculously wide for the screen. If there was more time, I wouldn’t rule it out that they were eating into that wide hallway, but no way is that a 3 week project.

Keep in mind, though: the bulk of the stuff has got to be done by Aug. 28, unless they do a limited opening of only a few auditoriums ala ArcLight Sherman Oaks.

Three weeks is certainly long enough to install Rave-standard DLP setups. (Funny as it is to think those tiny screens could be running 4k.) Then again, given the chain will be hard pressed to live up to its “100% stadium seating” claim, maybe they won’t be following the DLP one, either. As much as I dislike DLP, I will say it would be great to see a second-run house like this (provided it is indeed remaining second run) run it, as it would eliminate the worn & torn prints.

What they’ll do with the auditoriums — no idea. Any attempt to install newer seating would result in a major reduction in auditorium capacity (you could barely sit without your knees touching the chair in front of you as it was). Time-wise, though, they could pull it off.

That all said, I would be SHOCKED to see major changes. How you could make the place a modern cinema without almost completely gutting it is beyond me.

This is what I don’t get about the Rave thing. The BevCenter 13, much as I love it in an 80s cineplex kinda way, is the antithesis of the amenities listed on their website.

Glad you corrected yourself on my behalf. I only posted that it had been closed. I had no idea who was gonna pick the place up. I was hoping it was Regency (makes all the sense in the world!) but, alas, Rave is the winner.

What in the world are they gonna do with this place? I went to a Rave in Las Vegas once. The place was drowning in a sea of VERY! LOUD! NEON GREEN & ORANGE! Can’t really see that color scheme working out over there…let alone the aforementioned issues with projection/sound/etc. We will see.

I read it on Cinematour in the thread about the closing of the Bruin and Vlllage theatres after Mann cancels thier leases next year. I think Chris Utley posted it.

Rich37, where did you get that information?

Not to doubt you, but I see a Theater GM posting at the Beverly Center address online, posted today by Rave Motion Pictures. (Unless they have some connection to Regency I’m totally unaware of, then I think they most be the ones taking this theater over.)

Interestingly, Rave is a 100% digital chain. It would be wild if they outfitted the entire BevCenter complex with new projectors.

But I guess I’m speculating. Still, the job posting seems irrefutable.

I’m fascinated to learn who picked it up. It’s almost certain that it will remain second-run, but then again, I thought it was almost certain that it was doomed to never operate again, too.

Regency would be the easy guess, but there’s no mention of it on the website (or any other chain’s, for that matter). Could it be possible that a second-run chain will be entering the LA market for the first time?

Wonder if they’ll clean the place up at all… doubt it.

The Beverly Center will be re-opening under new management on Friday, August 28, 2009. Got the info from the theaters phone line 310-652-7760.

Going to see the final showing of Blood: The Last Vampire tonight at the Beverly Center. Let’s see if anybody shows up.

Simple answer: Regency should give Fairfax back to Laemmle (which still won’t solve the nightmare of trying to park there – which I would guess is 75% of that theatre’s struggles) and take Beverly Center 13 as a discount house. 13 screens of flicks at $3.00 a pop in the middle of a recession would surely make the cash strapped movie fanatics of LA truly glad.

If it’s going to remain second run (which it pretty much has to given The Grove and Century City so close), then it will be really hard to lure anybody in with the number of screens. Mann has essentially been operating the place at first-run prices (especially once one accounts for parking), and that’s probably part of the reason it hasn’t done so well.

Although the Fairfax is looking to have its fair share of troubles and Regency may have to give it up, I can’t imagine Regency would want to take up another theater only about 10 blocks away at present. Especially with that screen-count.

It would be wild if anybody picked the place up, so Thursday may be it. I’m now regretting that I decided against catching BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE there last week due to traffic, now that I’m out of town and won’t be able to see a last show. Then again, perhaps NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH back in December was a fitting last show, as it was one of the few prints I’ve ever seen in good condition at the place. It’s a shame the place was so ratty, at least in recent years.