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70-634: The Warner Grand Theatre is a historic movie palace that opened on January 20, 1931. It is located in San Pedro, Los Angeles , California , at 478 West 6th Street. The design of the Warner Grand Theatre was a collaboration by architect B. Marcus Priteca and interior designer Anthony Heinsbergen , in the Art Deco — Moderne style. It was one of three similarly lavish Los Angeles area Art Deco movie palaces on which Priteca and Heinsbergen collaborated for

140-540: A period drama set in the Golden Age of Hollywood . Lionsgate Films was the frontrunner to acquire the project after distributing Chazelle's La La Land (2016), with Emma Stone (also having worked on La La Land ) and Brad Pitt in the mix to star. In November, Paramount Pictures acquired worldwide rights to the project, with Stone and Pitt still circling roles. Pitt confirmed his involvement in January 2020, describing

210-451: A box by the door to service as a ticket office (literally, the "box office".) Storefront theatres, supplied with motion pictures made in Chicago and New York, spread throughout America. These theatres exhibited a motion picture at a specific time during the day. Air domes also became popular in warm climates and in the summertime in northern climates. With no roof and only side walls or fences,

280-410: A camera for a large, destructive set and a picturesque scene is shot without future film audiences' knowledge of its production, and another scene where Manny pressures Black trumpeter Sidney Palmer to don blackface during the filming of a jazz short , so that the lighting on the set doesn’t lighten his complexion in the final product. Lisa Laman of Collider observed that Babylon functions as

350-450: A camera to film Jack's outdoors love scene before nightfall; Manny gets one to the set at the last moment. He climbs the studio system 's ranks. Nellie becomes an " it girl " covered by gossip columnist Elinor St. John, who also follows Jack's career. As sound film displaces silents in the late-1920s, Manny skillfully adapts to the changes. At Sidney's suggestion, he pitches films starring Sidney's orchestra to Irving Thalberg and becomes

420-435: A fantasy environment to attract moviegoers and involved a type of social engineering, distraction, and traffic management, meant to work on human bodies and minds in a specific way. Today, most of the surviving movie palaces operate as regular theaters, showcasing concerts, plays and operas. This is a list of selected movie palaces, with location and year of construction. See also Babylon (2022 film) Babylon

490-407: A hotel party; she reveals her departure for Europe and Pathé . Afterwards, in his hotel room, a despondent Jack shoots himself. Eccentric gangster James McKay threatens Nellie's life over her gambling debts. Manny rejects her pleas for help, but later secures funds from the movie-set drug-pusher/aspiring actor "The Count", and visits James with him to pay off Nellie's debt. Manny panics upon learning

560-413: A month later on March 21, 2023. The first red-banded trailer for Babylon premiered on September 12, 2022, at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival during a Q&A event with Chazelle and TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey . It was released to the public the following day, alongside character posters of the main cast. Noting its uncensored nudity, profanity and drug use, several publications compared

630-485: A movie that not only wants to have its cake and eat it too, but also to puke it up, smear it around, and cram it in the viewer's face". While praising Chazelle's direction and ambition, Nayman wrote that the film was a "deliberately designed career-killer" for the director. Writing less enthusiastically about the film in Variety , Peter Debruge stated that " Babylon presents itself as the apotheosis of all that has come before,

700-484: A nickel in a machine allowed a viewer to see a short motion picture, devoid of plot. The machines were installed in Kinetoscope parlors, hotels, department stores , bars and drugstores in large American cities. The machines were popular from 1894 to 1896, but by the turn of the century had almost disappeared as Americans rejected the solitary viewing experience and boring entertainment. Around 1900, motion pictures became

770-469: A party with William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies , Nellie lashes out against upper-class snobbery, vomiting on Hearst. Jack finds Elinor's cover story about his declining popularity and confronts her; she explains that although his star has faded, he will be immortalized on film. Sidney is offended when studio executives insist he don blackface for Southern audiences; he leaves Kinoscope to perform live in black establishments. Jack encounters Fay at

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840-508: A rumination on how human beings try to outrun and ignore their innate mortality, pointing to the various nonchalant depictions of death (such as a newscaster's casual account of the suicide of a female Jack Conrad fan) as an especially discernible example of this thematic element. Laman also pointed to a key scene in the middle of Babylon concerning Conrad briefly being overwhelmed by the death of his friend George Munn before returning to his default unflappable persona to be another key instance of

910-471: A small part of vaudeville theatres. The competitive vaudeville theatre market caused owners to constantly look for new entertainment, and the motion picture helped create demand, although the new form of entertainment was not the main draw for patrons. It was often used as a "chaser"—shown as the end of the performance to chase the audience from the theatre. These theatres were designed much like legitimate theatres. The Beaux-Arts architecture of these theatres

980-434: A studio executive. Nellie struggles to navigate sound film's demands (one cameraman dies filming her), and increases her drug use and gambling, tarnishing her reputation, despite Manny's assistance. Nellie, shown to have an institutionalized mother, eggs on her drunken father (and inept business-manager) Robert to fight a rattlesnake at a party; he passes out. Nellie fights it, which bites her neck; Fay kills it and sucks out

1050-469: A tenuous betweenness of identity." Daniels writes that Manny's erasure of his identity is sparked by his fantasy romance with Nellie LaRoy—who represents what he loves about Hollywood: "An indefinable magical quality, upward mobility, picturesque happiness, and the ability to permanently define yourself." Daniels also adds that, while climbing the social ladder , Manny contributed to the mythology of Hollywood, recalling one scene where he expeditiously retrieved

1120-486: A total of $ 5.3 million over the four days), finishing fourth at the box office. Deadline cited the general public's declining interest in prestige films , the threat of a tripledemic surge in COVID-19 and flu cases, and the nationwide impact of Winter Storm Elliott as reasons for lower-than-expected theater attendance. In its sophomore weekend the film made $ 2.6 million (a drop of 27.5%), finishing in fifth. In Europe,

1190-409: A variety of referenced visual styles collided wildly with one another. French Baroque, High Gothic, Moroccan, Mediterranean, Spanish Gothic, Hindu, Babylonian, Aztec, Mayan, Orientalist, Italian Renaissance, and (after the discovery of King Tut 's tomb in 1922) Egyptian Revival were all variously mixed and matched. This wealth of ornament was not merely for aesthetic effect. It was meant to create

1260-506: Is a 2022 American epic historical black comedy drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle . It features an ensemble cast that includes Brad Pitt , Margot Robbie , Diego Calva , Jean Smart , Jovan Adepo and Li Jun Li . It chronicles the rise and fall of multiple characters during Hollywood's transition from silent to sound films in the late 1920s . Chazelle began developing Babylon in July 2019, with Lionsgate Films as

1330-515: Is also an executive producer on the film) joined the cast. In July, Jean Smart joined the cast, with Chloe Fineman , Jeff Garlin , Telvin Griffin, and Troy Metcalf joining the cast the following month. Filming was originally set to take place in California in mid-2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . It began on July 1, 2021 and wrapped on October 21, 2021. Shea's Castle

1400-426: Is exhausting, but much like the industry it honors, its well-acted, well-crafted glitz and glamour can often be an effective distraction." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 63 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported 74% of audience members gave

1470-447: Is going." In a scathing review for Time , Stephanie Zacharek highlighted Jun Li's performance, but criticized Chazelle's screenplay and direction, summarizing: " Babylon is a manic sprawl that only pretends to celebrate cinema. It's really about prurience, dumb sensation, self-congratulation and willful ignorance of history." In his review for The Ringer , Adam Nayman described Babylon as "a nauseous, high-calorie sugar rush of

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1540-477: Is sex and nudity, drugs and violence, a more diverse cast, and a batch of kitchen-sink chaos that replaces the whys and wherefores of coherent thought with the exhortation to buy a ticket, cast one's eyes up to the screen, and worship in the dark." John Mulderig of The Catholic Review says, "Along the way, Robbie effervesces, Pitt charms and Calva smolders and endures. Yet Chazelle's depiction of Tinseltown's behind-the-scenes decadence takes needless explicitness to

1610-435: The ne plus ultra of the medium's own potential, and indeed, it's an experience that won't be easily topped, in this or any year. But that doesn't make it great or even particularly coherent". Richard Brody of The New Yorker praised Chazelle's storytelling and characters, but criticized other aspects of his screenplay, ultimately concluding: "Artistically, what Babylon adds to the classic Hollywood that it celebrates

1680-501: The 95th Academy Awards . In 1926 Bel Air, Mexican migrant Manuel "Manny" Torres helps transport an elephant to a debauched bacchanal , rife with sex, jazz, and cocaine, at Kinoscope Studios executive Don Wallach's mansion. Manny becomes smitten with Nellie LaRoy, a brash, ambitious self-declared "star" from New Jersey . He shares his dream with her—to be part of something "bigger". Manny helps carry away young actress Jane Thornton, who overdosed on drugs with actor Orville Pickwick, having

1750-551: The Chicago firm of Rapp and Rapp , which designed the Chicago , Uptown , and Oriental Theatres . S.L. "Roxy" Rothafel , originated the deluxe presentation of films with themed stage shows. Sid Grauman , built the first movie palace on the West Coast , Los Angeles' Million Dollar Theater , in 1918. Following World War II movie ticket sales began to rapidly decline due to the widespread adoption of television and mass migration of

1820-933: The Cultural Affairs Department (later renamed the Department of Cultural Affairs) of the City of Los Angeles in 1996. Efforts to both restore and program the theater have been ongoing since the acquisition. That same year, the Grand Vision Foundation incorporated as a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation, to preserve and promote the Warner Grand Theatre. In 1999, the Warner was added to the National Register of Historic Places as building #98001633. Warner Grand Theatre currently hosts foreign films, art films, and family films presented by Cinema Grand, Grand Vision Foundation,

1890-572: The Warner Bros. company in the early 1930s. The others were located in Beverly Hills and Huntington Park . Priteca later designed Hollywood's famous Pantages Theatre . The theatre was purchased in 1996 and is still currently managed by the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). The Warner Grand Theatre is located at 478 West 6th Street in San Pedro. San Pedro is served by both

1960-425: The 1900s and 1910s. As motion pictures developed as an art form, theatre infrastructure needed to change. Storefront theatres and nickelodeons catered to the busy work lives and limited budgets of the lower and middle classes. Motion pictures were generally only thought to be for the lower classes at that time as they were simple, short, and cost only five cents to attend. While the middle class regularly began to attend

2030-606: The Hollywood studio system: "In the process, Manuel cuts off ties with his Mexican roots—though they live in Los Angeles, he never visits his family—he Americanizes his name to Manny, and at a party thrown by William Randolph Hearst, he presents himself as a Spaniard. Manuel becomes intoxicated by his proximity to the white capitalistic greed that governs Hollywood (and partly the American dream of upward mobility ), causing him to traverse

2100-544: The Kinoscope Studios entrance, then visits a nearby cinema alone to see Singin' in the Rain , whose depiction of the industry's transition from silents to talkies, albeit sanitized, moves him to tears. A century-spanning series of vignettes from films follows. As the focus returns to Singin' , Manny tearfully smiles. It was announced in July 2019 that Damien Chazelle had set his next project following First Man (2018) as

2170-531: The Los Angeles Department of Transportation and Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation bus systems. The nearest bus stops on the northeastern and southeastern corners of 7th Street and South Pacific Avenue for the LADOT 142 and LA Metro 246 and 950 Silver (J line) bus routes. The Warner Grand Theatre (WGT) is one of three Art Deco/Moderne “neighborhood picture palaces” built by Warner Brothers Studio in

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2240-618: The Los Angeles Harbor International Film Festival, and the San Pedro International Film Festival. Jack L. Warner called it "The Castle of Your Dreams". The Warner Grand Theatre has also been used as a location in some movies, including Remote Control (1988), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Pearl Harbor (2001), and Babylon (2022 film) . Movie palace There are three architectural design types of movie palaces:

2310-489: The Los Angeles area. Seating for 1,489 patrons is split between a main floor orchestra (889) and a mezzanine loge and balcony (600). While built as a movie theater, Warner Grand today features a proscenium stage (50′ W x 32′ D) with a T-guided flys system suited to presenting concerts, dance, musicals, comedy and drama, and film screenings. The City of Los Angeles acquired Warner Grand Theatre in 1996 and assigned operations and programming to DCA. Since that time, DCA has operated

2380-605: The Oscar-nominated director as he talks about the challenge of handling this massive cast" was released on December 29, 2022. Babylon grossed $ 15.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $ 48 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $ 63.4 million. Deadline Hollywood noted that with a combined production and promotion budget of around $ 160 million, Babylon would need to gross $ 250 million worldwide in order to break-even . The site ultimately calculated

2450-542: The aesthetic features of the facility are accomplished through a partnership with Grand Vision Foundation, a San Pedro-based nonprofit that serves as the official Friends group of the Warner Grand Theatre. The Warner Beverly Hills Theatre has been demolished, and the Huntington Park Warner, closed for many years, has been extensively altered, leaving the Grand as the last of the three original theaters remaining intact. By

2520-461: The air domes allowed patrons to view motion pictures in a venue that was cooler than the stifling atmosphere of the storefront theatre. In 1905, the nickelodeon was born. Rather than exhibiting one program a night, the nickelodeon offered continuous motion picture entertainment for five cents. They were widely popular. By 1910, nickelodeons grossed $ 91 million in the United States. The nickelodeons were like simple storefront theatres, but differed in

2590-440: The changing world of ’20s and ’30s Los Angeles perfectly. But it’s the way the score builds upon its motifs and elements from song to song, that makes it special." In June 2024, Collider ranked it number 30 on its list of the "30 Best Movies of the 2020s So Far," with Jeremy Urquhart writing "It's another movie of his [Chazelle] about passion, a desire for greatness, and the ups and downs of pursuing one's dreams, only this time

2660-532: The classical-style movie palace, with opulent, luxurious architecture; the atmospheric theatre , which has an auditorium ceiling that resembles an open sky as a defining feature; and the Art Deco theaters that became popular in the 1930s. Paid exhibition of motion pictures began on April 14, 1894, at Andrew M. Holland's phonograph store, located at 1155 Broadway in New York City , with the Kinetoscope . Dropping

2730-414: The continuous showings and the marketing to women and families. The movie house, in a building designed specifically for motion picture exhibition, was the last step before the movie palace. Comfort was paramount, with upholstered seating and climate controls. One of the first movie houses was Tally's Broadway Theater in Los Angeles. The movie palace was developed as the step beyond the small theaters of

2800-506: The elephant walk through to distract partygoers. Also attending are Chinese-American homosexual cabaret -singer Lady Fay Zhu and African-American jazz trumpeter Sidney Palmer. The flamboyantly dancing Nellie is spotted and swiftly recruited to replace Jane in a Kinoscope film. During filming, she crudely upstages Constance Moore . Manny befriends the benevolent but troubled, oft-married film star Jack Conrad; he drives Jack home. Jack helps Manny secure Kinoscope assistant jobs. A director needs

2870-565: The facility as a low-cost rental and presenting house with a mission to make the facility and its resources available to artists and companies from around the City, and for use by local community groups and partners at an affordable cost. In addition to an annual slate of perennial and new productions, Warner Grand Theatre is a familiar and popular site for filming and video of commercials, tv and film and music videos, and weddings and other special events. Promotion and marketing of shows and events, equipment upgrades and restoration and renovation of

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2940-555: The feature functioning as a tragic meditation on people trying to evade the inevitable presence of death. Babylon was first screened for critics and industry people on November 14, 2022, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles and in New York City the following day. It was released on December 23, 2022. The film was initially scheduled for a December 25, 2021, limited release and a January 7, 2022, wide release, but

3010-509: The film a positive score, with 47% saying they would definitely recommend it. In his review for the San Francisco Chronicle , Mick LaSalle praised Chazelle's ambition and direction, writing that " Babylon is what movie love really looks like." THR 's David Rooney described it as a "syncopated concentration of hedonistic revelry", praising the cast performances, score, cinematography, costume and production design, but criticizing

3080-674: The film as being set when the silent film era transitioned into sound . He was set to play a character modeled on actor-director John Gilbert . By December 2020, Margot Robbie was in early negotiations to replace Stone, who exited the film due to scheduling conflicts, and Li Jun Li was also cast. Robbie was confirmed in March 2021, with Jovan Adepo and Diego Calva also joining. In June, Katherine Waterston , Max Minghella , Flea , Samara Weaving , Rory Scovel , Lukas Haas , Eric Roberts , P.J. Byrne , Damon Gupton , Olivia Wilde , Spike Jonze , Phoebe Tonkin , and Tobey Maguire (who

3150-475: The film lost the studio $ 87.4   million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues. In the United States and Canada, Babylon was released alongside Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody , and was initially projected to gross $ 12–15 million from 3,342 theaters over its four-day opening weekend. The film made $ 1.5 million on its first day (including Thursday-night previews) and went on to debut to just $ 3.5 million in its opening weekend (and

3220-452: The film three stars out of five, applauding the performances of Robbie and Pitt for elevating "a story in no hurry to engage with the true-life nastiness of its era". Writing for Vanity Fair , Richard Lawson concurred with Bradshaw's sentiment, stating: "These are little islands in a sea of mannered chaos, but it begins to feel, as Babylon stretches out across three hours and eight minutes, that Chazelle has no clear idea where all of this

3290-649: The film took $ 3.3 million on its opening weekend in France and $ 1.6 million (£1.3 million) in the United Kingdom, coming second and third respectively at the box office. According to IndieWire and The Hollywood Reporter , as well as the opinion of Chazelle himself, response to the film was "polarized". On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , Babylon holds an approval rating of 57% based on 363 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The site's critics consensus reads: " Babylon ' s overwhelming muchness

3360-544: The film's first trailer. The soundtrack album was released by Interscope Records on December 9, 2022. In an essay for /Film , Robert Daniels asserts that Babylon is essentially a story of identity and assimilation in early Hollywood. While noting the similarities it shares with films such as The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019), Bamboozled (2000), and Medicine for Melancholy (2008), Daniels focuses on character Manuel "Manny" Torres and his rise into

3430-420: The film, calling it "utterly brilliant–extravagant, over the top, hilarious, thought-provoking" and "one of those movies that reviews badly and is acclaimed as a classic in 20 years." In August 2023, IndieWire ranked the film's score at number 15 on its list of "The 40 Best Movie Scores of the 21st Century," writing "Filled with booming trumpets and epic saxophone solos, it’s a truly epic score, perfectly fitting

3500-479: The frontrunner to acquire the project. It was announced that Paramount Pictures had acquired worldwide rights in November 2019. Much of the main cast joined the project between January 2020 and August 2021, and filming took place in Los Angeles from July to October 2021. Babylon premiered at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles on November 14, 2022, and was released in the United States on December 23, 2022. It

3570-422: The henchman agree to spare him if he leaves Los Angeles. While Manny gathers their belongings, Nellie reneges on her decision and dances away into the night. A montage of newspaper clippings reveals Elinor's death at 76 and Nellie's death from a drug overdose at 34. In 1952, Manny returns to California with his wife Silvia and young daughter, having fled to New York City and established a radio shop. He shows them

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3640-419: The highest-grossing first-run films for which they were no longer viable exhibition venues. They became second-run theaters or specialized in showing art house films . By 2004, only about a quarter of U.S. movie theaters still had only one screen, and the average number of screens per theater was 6.1. Eberson specialized in the subgenre of "atmospheric" theatres. His first, of the 500 in his career,

3710-420: The major studios and were forced to close. Many were able to stay in business by converting to operate as race or pornography theaters . The death knell for single-screen movie theaters (including movie palaces) arrived with the development of the multiplex in the 1980s and the megaplex in the 1990s. Some movie palaces were able to stay in business only by getting out of the way, at least with respect to

3780-470: The mid-1990s it had suffered a lengthy period of neglect, despite having been declared a historical and cultural monument of the city in 1982. The theater was facing possible demolition or re-development when, in 1995, a local group of activists formed the Grand Vision Foundation to work for the preservation of the historic building. Their efforts were successful when the theater was purchased by

3850-480: The money is counterfeit , made by his prop-maker. James invites the men to a subterranean gathering-space for depraved zoosadist parties, raving about potential film ideas. When James realizes the cash is counterfeit, he tries to kill them but they escape, killing James's henchman Wilson. Manny asks Nellie to flee with him to Mexico, marry and start a new life; she eventually agrees. James's associate finds Manny, killing The Count and his roommate. When Manny urinates,

3920-407: The nickelodeons by the early 1910s the upperclass continued to attend stage theater performances such as opera and big-time vaudeville. However, as more sophisticated, complex, and longer films featuring prominent stage actors were developed, the upperclass desires to attend the movies began to increase and a demand for higher class theaters began to develop. Nickelodeons could not meet this demand as

3990-434: The point of obscenity. [He] repeatedly references ... Singin' in the Rain , which unfolds in the same place and time. But comparisons with that beloved classic only highlight the ugliness of his own portrayal of human debasement." Despite the polarizing response, later critical and public reevaluation has tended to focus more on the film's strengths while deeming it as a misunderstood masterpiece. Author Stephen King praised

4060-408: The population from the cities, where all the movie palaces had been built, into the suburbs. The closing of most movie palaces occurred after United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. in 1948, which ordered all of the major film studios to sell their theaters. Most of the newly independent theaters could not continue to operate on the low admissions sales of the time without the financial support of

4130-421: The screenplay and direction—ultimately concluding "it’s hard to imagine the overstuffed yet insubstantial Babylon finding its way into many screen-classic montages". Conversely, Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood wrote that "it is guaranteed to be a movie that will stay in your head", commending the direction, production design, and performances. In his review for The Guardian , Peter Bradshaw assigned

4200-573: The trailer's atmosphere to that of films such as The Wolf of Wall Street and The Great Gatsby (both 2013), which star Robbie and Maguire, respectively. A featurette about the making of the film was released on November 21, 2022. The second and final trailer for the film and its theatrical release poster were released on November 28, 2022. As Maggie Dela Paz notes at ComingSoon.net, "a brand new behind-the scenes featurette ...highlight[ing] Chazelle’s ensemble cast of A-list stars and familiar supporting actors[, and] also featur[ing] commentary from

4270-410: The upperclass feared the moral repercussions of intermingling between women and children with immigrants. There were also real concerns over the physical safety of the nickelodeon theaters themselves as they were often cramped with little ventilation and the nitrate film stock used at the time was extremely flammable. The demand for an upscale film theater, suitable to exhibit films to the upperclass,

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4340-499: The venom. Nellie passionately kisses her. By 1932, Jack's popularity wanes but still works in low-budget Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films. As Hollywood becomes less libertine , executives tell Manny to fire Fay, a Kinoscope title-writer, due to her lesbianism. While practising lines with new wife Estelle, Jack is devastated to learn his longtime friend/producer, George Munn, has committed suicide. Elinor and Manny try to revamp Nellie's image and get her into Hollywood's high society, but at

4410-656: Was first met when the Regent Theater, designed by Thomas Lamb , was opened in February 1913, becoming the first ever movie palace. However the theater's location in Harlem prompted many to suggest that the theater be moved to Broadway alongside the stage theaters. These desires were satisfied when Lamb built the Strand Theatre on Broadway, which was opened in 1914 by Mitchel H. Mark at the cost of one million dollars. This opening

4480-403: Was formal and ornate. They were not designed for motion pictures, but rather live stage performances. In 1902, the storefront theatre was born at Thomas Lincoln Tally 's Electric Theatre in Los Angeles. These soon spread throughout the country as empty storefronts were equipped with chairs, a Vitascope projector, a muslin sheet on which the motion picture was exhibited, darkened windows, and

4550-401: Was initially based on the more traditional, "hardtop" form patterned on opera houses , but was no less ornate. His theaters evolved from relatively restrained neo-classic designs in the 1910s to those with elaborate baroque and Asian motifs in the late 1920s. The movie palace's signature look was one of extravagant ornamentation. The theaters were often designed with an eclectic exoticism where

4620-415: Was later delayed by an entire year, with a December 25, 2022, limited release, and a January 6, 2023, wide release, due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In October, the film was moved two days earlier to the current date and set for a solely wide release instead. The film was released on VOD platforms on January 31, 2023, and on Paramount+ on February 21, 2023. It was released on Blu-ray , DVD and 4K UHD

4690-411: Was met with a polarized response from critics and was a box-office bomb , grossing $ 63 million against a production budget of $ 78–80 million and losing Paramount $ 87 million. It received five nominations at the 80th Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy , winning Best Original Score ), three nominations at the 76th British Academy Film Awards , and three nominations at

4760-505: Was the 1923 Majestic in Houston, Texas . The atmospherics usually conveyed the impression of sitting in an outdoor courtyard, surrounded by highly ornamented asymmetrical facades and exotic flora and fauna, underneath a dark blue canopy; when the lights went out, a specially designed projector, the Brenograph, was used to project clouds, and special celestial effects on the ceiling. Lamb's style

4830-484: Was the first example of a success in drawing the upper middle class to the movies and it spurred others to follow suit. As their name implies movie palaces were advertised to, "make the average citizen feel like royalty." To accomplish this these theaters were outfitted with a plethora of amenities such as larger sitting areas, air conditioning, and even childcare services. Between 1914 and 1922 over 4,000 movie palaces were opened. Notable pioneers of movies palaces include

4900-546: Was used for the exterior shots of the mansion in the opening party scene, and interiors were shot inside the Ace Hotel Los Angeles . The movie ranch , Blue Sky Ranch, served as Kinescope Studios. Justin Hurwitz , a frequent collaborator of Chazelle, composed the film's score. Two tracks from the score, "Call Me Manny" and "Voodoo Mama," were released digitally on November 10, 2022, the latter track being used to underscore

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