TCL Chinese Theatre
6925 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
6925 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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I am with Chris on this. They should market the Large Single Screen Experience here. I actually remember the screen advertised as being 73 feet in the LA Times when Clash of the Titans opened. They could get it to 80 feet or so I bet…and maybe get a few good films to show on it. If they get the product, market it as something unique…people will come.
Closed “MANN Theatres” has now sadly closed it’s doors. We would like to thank everyone for your patronage throughout the years. It has been our pleasure to serve your communities.
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Speaking of mann.. anyone visit their website lately.. sad :(
Maybe the new owners should focus of getting “A” films booked into the theatre instead. Perhaps share with Arclight as Mann did with Terminator a few years back. Instead they just want to turn the place into another Tourist Trap like the Hollywood wax museum, have “Rave” parties and hold premieres and hand/foot ceremonies so they can rub elbows with the Hollywood Elite. They really are not taking the place in the right direction. It is a movie theatre and should focus on getting people in the damn seats.
I wish Mann still opearated it.
Crazy thought: The screen inside Chinese is 60 feet…and very obviously masked from top to bottom and from the sides. Maybe the owners can expand the masking to its fullest capability and readvertise Chinese as a Large Screen Experience house? Heck…the CURRENT sound and screen blows LieMax (the digital version), ETX and all the other pretenders out of the water! Why not go all in to justify the raising of the ticket price? Then they could offer 2 out of the remaining Chinese 6 as supplemental houses.
Like I said…crazy thought. Right?
The article is not very encouraging. Did I miss the part where they are going to try to get good films booked?
KingBiscuits FOR THE WIN!
What did you expect from the producer of Battlefield Earth, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and the Get Carter remake?
So the plan is to live off of pimping the footprints, more film fests and T-shirts/coffee mugs & the inevitable iPhone/Android apps. But ZERO plans or thoughts on how to put butts back in the seats. Sigh.
New article in the Hollywood reporter on future plans for the Chinese: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/graumans-chinese-theatre-makeover-hollywood-279246
Grauman’s Chinese still must be making lots of money from film premieres and events like that. It seems like just about everytime I’m in the area that block of Hollywood Blvd is closed off in front of it!
Chris is on the money. With no major chain behind it they do not get first stab at the big films. They lucked into Harry Potter Deatly Hollows 2 last Summer probably only because Arclight/Dome had to commit to 3 weeks of Transformers. Other than that the Chinese has not had any tentpole releases and will probably just continue to show what are essentially rejected films that Arclight did not want.
Too bad Mann (Cinemamerica) did not continue to own the Chinese and lease it out to a chain. I think since it was a SALE and not a LEASE the major chains did not want to touch it. If it were a lease then probably someone like Regal, AMC or maybe even Pacific would have taken over. As it stands it is a Landmark that is more interesting as a building than what it screens. Yes, the TCM and the AFI festivals are nice and are the highlights for the theatre.
The Chinese is still part of the TCM Film Fest 2012, both the main house and the 6 plex will show films (and the Egyptian) like the last few years. I went last year and it was amazing, will try and do standby again this year. It is the weekend of April 12th. If you ever wanted to see a classic on the big screen, this is an amazing opportunity, and hopefully not the last.
Same operator.
Chris, Who’s operating the Chinese 6? If it is a separate operator, it should have a separate page here.
Except when the Chinese is the centerpiece of the TCM Classic Film Festival every year? Unless that’s over with for the Chinese as well.
@BigJoe: Graumans & the Chinese 6 are independently owned now. They have no leverage to book major titles. Studios would rather work with large chains with enough screens to show their product. As a result, the owners are slowly transforming the theaters into mixed-use facilities where they’re adding nightclub events to compensate for the fact that they’re getting all the lower grade films.
The glory and luster of Grauman’s Chinese is over. Sad.
Hello from NYC. i find many recent postings quite fascinating. first off the many comments as to why the Chinese didn’t book one of the many “big” year end flicks but THE DARKEST HOUR instead.
Considering the many “big” year end flicks this surprises me as well since the only other theaters in the immediate area is the Cinerama Dome/Archlight and the El Capitan.
Also the many comments about raising ticket prices. i was always under the assumption that first run theaters in Manhattan had the highest prices. Obviously 3-D, IMAX and 3-D IMAX have surcharges but the highest price for a regular first run theater is $13.50 at theaters run by the Regal chain.
Yeah. It is one thing charging alot, but when your big holiday film is The Darkest Hour and Alvin and the Chipmunks it seems wrong. At least Arclight you can accumulate points and have the best films available. The Chinese really offers nothing. Sadly, Mann theatres officially closed shop this week.
I thought the $16 price-tag was only for Grauman’s, but I just discovered online that it’s also for the Chinese 6. WOW! Higher than ArcLight prices for a 1990s-style multiplex with third-rate product? I didn’t think that price-point was that big a deal for Grauman’s, but I would be amazed if #s didn’t drop for the adjoining theaters.
Renewing Link. Thanks!
They already started. A couple weeks ago they closed the 6 plex and have a night time RAVE party for some dumb ass DJ. They remodeled the 6 plx and from the looks of it pulled up the carpet to make it a dance floor. The new owners are really trashy people. I’m thinking the main theatre will remain. They are star f—kers and love the premieres and foot print ceremonies. Sad, really sad. This place has little class these days.
According to the email I just received, the clubbin starts on New Years Eve! Sad.
They’ll be clubbin in there w/Lady Gaga videos projected on the big screen by the close of 2012. Mark my words!
Be glad they’re getting a new film.