iPic Westwood

10840 Wilshire Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90024

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mistertopps
mistertopps on May 1, 2014 at 9:18 pm

If you want to sit in the first 2 rows, the ticket price is $19.

If you want to sit in the rest of the theatre, the ticket price is $29, but then you can also spend more money on ordering food + drinks from a waiter.

I can walk to this theater, but there is no chance I will ever go to it.

Chris Utley
Chris Utley on April 26, 2014 at 11:55 am

Showtimes indicate that this is their soft opening.

Please update the theatre name w/the new info. As Brad said, it’s now named iPIC Westwood.

BRADE48
BRADE48 on April 25, 2014 at 5:20 pm

iPIC Westwood has opened.

This is what they are now showing. They are booking day/date with Regency Village and Bruin.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2D (PG13) 7:00PM 10:15PM Divergent (PG13) 4:15PM 7:45PM Draft Day (PG13) 6:30PM 9:45PM Muppets Most Wanted (PG) 9:15PM Transcendence (PG13) 5:30PM 8:45PM

CStefanic
CStefanic on January 24, 2014 at 8:54 pm

Why they didn’t just restructure it to the way it was BEFORE the plexing is beyond me. There aren’t going to be enough movies to fill all the screens in about two years. Theatrical releases are going to be less. They should have redesigned. Losers!

Cliffs
Cliffs on January 18, 2014 at 9:57 pm

I can’t imagine a lot of studios are going to want to book an 85 seat screen when they have 1300 seats up the street (at least on their biggest releases). I imagine a lot of move-overs and limited first runs. At best, you might get the occasional big summer movie taking up three or four of their six screens.

BRADE48
BRADE48 on January 14, 2014 at 12:21 pm

I wonder how Ipic will be booked. I’m thinking the could book day and date with the Village on some engagements. It has been a while since I took Wilshire into Westwood. I’m assuming this will open later this year.

Chris Utley
Chris Utley on October 25, 2013 at 10:14 pm

“Demolished” means ABSOLUTELY TORN DOWN with no remains left. That picture is a GUTTED building, not a DEMOLISHED one.

You want demolished? Take a stroll around the corner and see the grassy knoll that was once The National.

dave-bronx™
dave-bronx™ on October 25, 2013 at 8:59 pm

Under the photo tab on this page, the second pic from the left – looks mostly demolished to to me. While another theatre may be built on that site, the building that closed in December 2011 is, for the most part, gone.

Chris Utley
Chris Utley on October 25, 2013 at 8:50 pm

The story of the asbestos:

http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2013/05/delay_in_opening_wes.php

Chris Utley
Chris Utley on October 25, 2013 at 8:36 pm

Probably because it’s not “DEMOLISHED.” As I earlier stated on May 30, 2013 they found asbestos in the construction. The only way to deal with asbestos is by gutting the theatre to get all the gunk out and then rebuilding it afterwards.

ChasSmith
ChasSmith on October 25, 2013 at 6:25 pm

Terrible. Another Westwood humiliation.

dave-bronx™
dave-bronx™ on October 25, 2013 at 5:59 pm

BTW, based on the previously mentioned photo, the status of this theatre should be changed to ‘Demolished’.

dave-bronx™
dave-bronx™ on October 25, 2013 at 4:36 pm

I’m surprised that nobody has commented on the photo added Aug. 13, showing that the Avco Center Cinema has nearly vanished from the face of the earth. So much for the alleged conversion that was supposed to save it.

CStefanic
CStefanic on June 10, 2013 at 12:12 pm

Drove by it this morning. Looks almost completely gutted. Hope they restore it to the original decor it once showcased back when the biggies were hitting the screen.

Chris Utley
Chris Utley on May 30, 2013 at 11:48 am

New article on CT’s front page says that they found asbestos causing delays that will, at best, push the opening to Thanksgiving 2013. At worst, sometime in 2014.

mistertopps
mistertopps on May 30, 2013 at 1:29 am

This is very much under construction right now. If you peer through boards, you can see that the entire place has been gutted. It doesn’t appear that they are keeping anything of the original Avco except the foundation and really just the shell of the building.

Richie_T
Richie_T on March 15, 2013 at 4:41 pm

Anybody know when this place relaunches…?

stepwest
stepwest on November 29, 2012 at 6:14 pm

For sake of clarity, in September of 1993 General Cinema made the horrible “business decision” to split the famous Avco Cinema 1 into two auditoriums. This evil deed was done long before AMC took over after GCC’s demise. Some of the finest moviegoing experiences of my life took place in that magical room. It is missed.

Danny Baldwin
Danny Baldwin on September 26, 2012 at 9:31 pm

Brad— I don’t imagine double-booking will be a problem. The iPic less than a mile from the ArcLight Pasadena plays basically all the same stuff.

gman037
gman037 on September 26, 2012 at 11:35 am

I believe I saw the original Die Hard here. The Dolby made the sound of bullets echo in the back of the theater.

fieldight
fieldight on September 21, 2012 at 6:15 am

ANYONE REMEMBER FIELD OF DREAMS PLAYING HERE? I SAW IT OPENING NIGHT 1989 AND IT WAS A NEAR RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. On the behind the scenes of the Field of Dreams DVD, the director speaks of the first showings at the Westwood Avco and how it was a special experience.

BRADE48
BRADE48 on August 5, 2012 at 10:20 pm

I don’t know. don’t know what the other theatres are in the areas those movies are playing. I’m just guessing that “unless double booked” big blockbusters are not going to show in a 80 seat screen when there are 1,000 seats across Wilshire Blvd. But it is just spectulation on my part, who knows these days. It may not be the powerhouse it once was but I think there is still respect for the Village, studios are still buying big murals for the tower, it still hold premieres there and it may have a 70mm exclusive of The Master this fall. Maybe since iPic theatres are essentially restuarants that show movies they will get day and date with the Village.

CSWalczak
CSWalczak on August 5, 2012 at 2:44 pm

Well, if what you are essentially saying is true, BRADE48, then this IPic will be operating differently than its other nine current locations. If you look at the IPic website, the offerings at its current eight or nine other locations are almost all mainstream releases (all are playing “Dark Knight” and “Total Recall”). They are few art or independent films.

BRADE48
BRADE48 on August 5, 2012 at 1:55 pm

There is no chance a film like Dark Knight Rises will get a booking at the iPic over the Village. Regardless of it is sells out or not the Village has more seats and with a film like that a studio wants as many seats as possible. Also, Regency is an official theatre chain. They now have the muscle to outbid iPic because of the other screens they operate.

iPic will get smaller films, maybe indie and some foreign and move overs. They will get films first run films like The Watch and Hope Springs. Dark Knight perhaps on a move-over. In the meantime The Landmark will probably continue to get the return customers, the film lovers who want to just see a movie. iPIc will not cut into that audience.

mistertopps
mistertopps on August 4, 2012 at 9:24 pm

I just walked past this theatre and it made me sad that they’re dicing it up further. With home theatres getting better and better, and with first run films appearing on VOD earlier and earlier – what is the difference between ordering fancy takeout at home, and going to a theatre like this?

I think we all agree here that the draw of the cinemagoing experience is the fact it’s playing on a huge screen with a packed audience of excited strangers. A crowd of 40 on a postage stamp screen is not what filmmakers would have ever intended.

Additionally, when iPic (how stupid of a name is that, by the way) inevitably goes out of business, it’s going to be that much harder to get it started again as a legit theatre because nobody is going to want to take over a theatre with tons of teeny screens (like the Beverly Center 13).

I just hope that these screens don’t force the larger scale films out of the Bruin or Village. Previously – the Avco would never book the same films; how pissed would you be if The Dark Knight Rises played at iPic, and the Village could only play something like The Watch.