Final Curtain May Be In Store For Westwood's Landmark Regent Theatre

The curtain could soon be closing on the Landmark Regent Theatre in Westwood, where the building's owners have submitted plans to convert the historic building into a pair of restaurants.

As first reported by Los Angeles Magazine this week, the movie house on Broxton Avenue would be just the latest local theater to shutter. The magazine notes that the Crest, Festival, Plaza, National, Mann 4, and UA Westwood have all closed down leaving he Bruin, the Fox, and iPic.

Los Angeles Magazine notes, "The Regent was built as retail stores in the 1940s and was a warehouse when Laemmle remodeled it into “L.A.’s Most Beautiful Intimate Theatre” in September 1966. They played art pictures into the 1970s when Mann Theaters, who ran the Fox and the Chinese in Hollywood, acquired it. The Regent upped their cinematic game when Landmark took over in 2002, but this was never a movie palace and the neighborhood seems to have lost interest in movies."

For the full Los Angeles Magazine article, click here.

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