Two historic 1930s movie theaters 30 yards apart both to shut this week

Two iconic Los Angeles movie theaters are group to adjacent later this week.

The Regency Village Theater successful Westwood and its adjacent sister theatre, nan Bruin, will adjacent connected Thursday, their usability confirmed connected Sunday. 

Regency Theaters, which manages 20 locations successful California, has tally nan 2 cinemas - connected either broadside of Broxton Avenue - for nan past 14 years but its leases for nan properties extremity later this month.  

The 2 theaters, opened successful nan 1930s, person go movie manufacture landmarks and precocious featured in Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time … successful Hollywood.'

The Regency Village, named a historic taste monument successful 1988, will only adjacent temporarily aft a herculean effort to prevention it spearheaded by head Jason Reitman, nan man down nan caller Ghostbusters movies.  

Reitman and a group of movie manufacture celebrities, including Christopher Nolan, JJ Abrams, Guillermo del Toro, Steven Spielberg and Bradley Cooper, bought nan theatre successful February.

The group antecedently stated their plans to renovate and reopen nan building to surface a substance of caller and aged films, but person not fixed a timeline for completing nan project. 

'We person an breathtaking imagination that includes dining, drinking, moviegoing, assemblage viewing and programming of caller and aged films, and we cannot hold to stock that pinch everybody,' Reitman told nan LA Times. 

The Regency Village's 170-foot achromatic Spanish Revival-Art Deco exterior was designed by Percy P. Lewis. 

Opened successful 1931, it was primitively portion of nan Fox Theaters group earlier being taken complete by nan Mann Theaters concatenation successful nan 1970s.

The Bruin, which opened its doors for nan first clip successful 1937, is group to adjacent for nan foreseeable future.  

'The [Bruin's] owners convey nan Golin Family and Regency Theaters for our narration pinch them for nan past 14 years,' a typical said successful a connection to nan Times.  

The owners added that they are 'currently evaluating early opportunities for nan Bruin.' 

Movie theaters person struggled to retrieve aft nan effects of pandemic lockdowns, nan emergence of streaming and nan latest rustle of nan SAG-AFRA writer and actors strikes past year. 

The pipeline of caller films was slowed down importantly arsenic a consequence which has made it much difficult for movie theaters to bounce back. 

However, blockbuster films specified arsenic Twisters which debuted to roaring occurrence past weekend, connection a glimmer of dream to struggling theatre crossed nan country.