ArcLight Hollywood

ArcLight Hollywood

ArcLight Cinemas and the Cinerama Dome.
Address 6360 West Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood, California
United States
Parking Adjacent garage
Owner The Decurion Corporation
Opened 2002
Website
www.arclightcinemas.com
The courtyard entrance of the Arclight Hollywood complex.

The ArcLight Hollywood is a 14-screen multiplex located at 6360 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.[1] All 14 screens feature stadium seating, and carry a THX certification for optimal sound and picture presentation. The building is located adjacent to the Cinerama Dome, which is now part of the ArcLight complex. The theater opened March 22, 2002 and is a subsidiary of The Decurion Corporation, which also owns Pacific Theatres.[1]

The ArcLight Hollywood was the first theatre in the ArcLight chain to open, and is considered to be the company's flagship.

Amenities

ArcLight Hollywood provides numerous amenities to its customers. Each theater has reserved seating.[1] The only promotional material shown before showtimes are trailers.[1]

At showtime, immediately before the trailers begin, an Usher Greeter introduces the film to the audience and states the ArcLight's policies regarding quality assurance, i.e. two ushers will remain in the theater until a few minutes after the film has begun, to ensure that the picture and sound quality are acceptable. They also inform the audience to turn their cellphones to the silent function, and to refrain from texting.[2] Five minutes after the scheduled start time of a film has elapsed, further seating is prohibited, reducing interruptions.

As of September 2011, all ArcLight locations show digital presentations of their features. Each location has two houses with Kinoton 35mm projectors for archival and special presentations.

In addition to special event screenings, the ArcLight regularly holds "21+" screenings in which patrons must be 21 years old or older to be admitted and patrons may consume alcoholic beverages purchased from the theater's bar.[3] The ArcLight routinely features exhibits of local art or props and costumes from current films.

Seating

Tickets for all movie showings feature assigned seating. Upon purchasing a ticket, customers are allowed to select their preferred seat and see which seats have already been reserved. The only restriction is the inability to select a seat if it creates a single seat space between an already reserved seat. This is to prevent orphan empty seats which could only be filled by a single individual.

Parking

Parking is located off Ivar to the west and DeLongpre to the south and off Sunset, just east of the Cinerama Dome in an adjacent garage. The parking garage is not owned by ArcLight, and also serves several restaurants, stores, and a gym located in the ArcLight complex, as well as Amoeba Music, which has its own parking lot but offers validation at the Ivar structure as well.

Other locations

Additional ArcLight theaters have been opened. ArcLight Sherman Oaks opened November 16, 2007, in place of the Galleria Pacific Theater, after extensive remodeling. The grand opening took place on December 14.

On March 2, 2010, ArcLight announced the opening of a new location in Pasadena at Pacific Theaters at Paseo Colorado. The new location opened in the Summer of 2010.

In late 2010, ArcLight opened a new location in the South Bay Area of Los Angeles in the city of El Segundo. The new location is called "ArcLight Beach Cities".

In November 2012, ArcLight opened its first location outside of Los Angeles County. The "ArcLight La Jolla", located in San Diego, California at Westfield UTC, was part of the mall's $180 million renovation.[4]

In October 2014, the first location outside California opened at Westfield Montgomery in Bethesda, Maryland.[5]

In 2015, Arclight opened two locations in the Midwest, both in the state of Illinois. The first screen in Glenview, Illinois, opened in May 2015, followed by the second location in Chicago in November 2015. The Glenview location was previously occupied by Regal and extensively remodeled to the chain's standards, while the Chicago location was the chain's first theatre constructed in the Midwest.

In addition to the Arclight Chicago, the chain opened the first of two proposed locations in Santa Monica, California in November 2015 in the newly remodeled Santa Monica Place. The status of the second location is currently unknown, but it is suspected that Arclight no longer intends to build it.

In January 2016, the first northeast location was announced for ArcLight Boston in Boston, Massachusetts.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 The Los Angeles Times
  2. ↑ Denby, David (2006-12-25). "Big Pictures". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 15 January 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-15.
  3. ↑ "Café Bar". Archived from the original on 2007-01-11. Retrieved 2007-01-15.
  4. ↑ "ArcLight Cinemas: No talking, cellphones, crying babies". U-T San Diego. November 2, 2012. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
  5. ↑ "ArcLight Cinemas Bethesda Preview Tour". Robert Dyer @ Bethesda Row. October 22, 2014.
  6. ↑ "The Hub at Causeway: the Details on the Big TD Garden Party". January 29, 2016.
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