Sony and Alamo Drafthouse are reportedly in talks to take over Cinerama Dome

The ongoing saga of the Cinerama Dome, among the astir iconic movie theaters successful Los Angeles, took different twist connected Tuesday. Reports surfaced that Sony and Alamo Drafthouse, the theatre concatenation owned by the company, person been successful talks to instrumentality implicit cognition of the venue.

The theatre and the adjacent 14-screen ArcLight Hollywood multiplex person been closed since March 2020. In April 2021 it was announced the venue would not beryllium reopening and it has sat dormant ever since, becoming the absorption of aggravated nationalist interest.

Representatives for Sony did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The quality of Sony and Alamo’s involvement successful the spot was archetypal reported by Deadline.

A metropolis proceeding successful May regarding intoxicant income astatine the tract provided a uncommon accidental for nationalist remark connected the property.

“I cognize that this has been hard and it has seemed similar the citizens versus the ownership — that’s not what it is,” section preservation advocator Kim Cooper said. “People privation to travel unneurotic and assistance and bring this spot back.”

The Dome has agelong been owned by the household of William R. Forman — the laminitis of Pacific Theatres — who opened the Dome successful 1963. In a telephone interrogation with The Times pursuing the May meeting, Elizabeth Peterson-Gower, a onshore usage advisor representing the venue’s owners, said that they hoped to person a reopening clip framework “in the adjacent future.”

Sony purchased the Austin, Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse concatenation successful 2024, with venues successful large cities each crossed the U.S., including L.A.

The Cinerama Dome quality comes connected the heels of a beardown summertime of moviegoing, arsenic audiences person been flocking to theaters to spot movies specified arsenic “The Odyssey,” “Toy Story 5,” “Backrooms” and “Obsession.” There has been a newfound attraction connected theatrical presumption and movie formats, including the constricted fig of venues susceptible of projecting Imax 70mm oregon 70mm film, astir the country.

Theatergoing successful L.A. has been undergoing a renaissance of its own. The Alex Theater successful Glendale is showing a first-run movie with “The Odyssey” for the archetypal clip since 1991, portion the American Cinematheque has relaunched the Village Theater successful Westwood nether the caller sanction the Directors Village to admit the consortium of filmmakers who took implicit ownership.