Will L.A.’s Iconic Cinerama Dome Ever Re

Lights, camera … inaction. The historic Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard and its adjoining ArcLight Hollywood multiplex have together become perhaps L.A.’s most iconic post-pandemic vacancies.

The venues shuttered in March 2020, at the onset of COVID, prompting public lamentations from filmmakers ranging from Barry Jenkins and Lulu Wang to Edgar Wright and Olivia Wilde. Operator Pacific Theatres soon went bankrupt and liquidated all its locations. While many of the company’s Southern California venues have since been snapped up by other exhibitors, its flagship movie mecca remains a white elephant.

Lights, camera … inaction. The historic Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard and its adjoining ArcLight Hollywood multiplex have together become perhaps L.A.’s most iconic post-pandemic vaca