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Hollywood Pacific Theatre
Hollywood Pacific Theatre, also known as Warner Theatre, Warner Bros. Theatre, Warner Hollywood, Warner Cinerama, Warner Pacific, and Pacific 1-2-3, is a historic office, retail, and entertainment space located at 6433 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It is best known for its movie theater, which was owned by Warner Bros. Pictures from 1928 to 1953, Stanley Warner Theatres (later RKO-Stanley Warner Theatres) from 1953 to 1968, and Pacific Theatres from 1968 to 1994.
Originally known as Warner Bros. Theatre or Warner Hollywood, the latter used to avoid confusion with another Warner Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, this building was designed by G. Albert Lansburgh, an architect renowned for his theater designs, having previously designed the Palace, Orpheum, El Capitan, and more. The total cost of this building was $2 million ($37.5 million in 2025), $750,000 more than budgeted. It was built on the former site of Paul de Longpré's residence.
The building's centerpiece, its movie theater, was Hollywood's first movie theater designed specifically for sound. The theater was meant to open in 1927 showing The Jazz Singer, but construction overruns and Sam Warner's death prevented this. Instead, the theater opened on April 26, 1928 with a showing of Glorious Betsy. The Jazz Singer star Al Jolson emceed the opening, which marked Warner Brothers's entry into the theater business in California. The theater sat more than 2,700 and was built to complete directly with Grauman's Chinese and Egyptian.
In addition to the theater, the building featured a nursery, emergency hospital, lounge, retail and office space, and a 3,000 square feet (280 m2) radio studio. Radio station KFWB occupied the studio, and two radio masts were added to the building soon after it opened, with the station's letters displayed on the masts.
In 1949, the United States Supreme Court issued the Paramount Decision, prohibiting major film studios from owning movie theaters. To comply, Warner Brothers spun off Stanley Warner Theatres in 1953, at which point this building transferred ownership to that company. Stanley Warner Theatres later merged with RKO Theatres Corp to become RKO Stanley Warner.
In the 1950s, when theaters tried to compete with television by introducing widescreen, this venue was one of the few in Hollywood large enough to convert to Cinerama. After renovations, the theater reopened as Warner Cinerama on April 29, 1953. The new screen was 28 by 76 feet (8.5 m × 23.2 m) with a 146 degree arc and seating was reduced to approximately 1,500 to accommodate the larger screen.
The first film shown at the Warner Cinerama was This is Cinerama, which grossed $3,845,200 ($46.1 million in 2025) in its first 115 weeks, a Los Angeles record. The film closed 133 weeks after opening and on November 15, 1955, Cinerama Holiday opened, playing for 81 weeks and grossing $2,212,600 ($26.2 million in 2025). That film was followed by Seven Wonders of the World, which played for 69 weeks and grossed $1,659,361 ($18.5 million in 2025). Other cinerama films that played in this theater include South Seas Adventure (71 weeks), Search for Paradise (38 weeks), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (28 weeks), and the premiere run of How the West Was Won (93 weeks). This is Cinerama, Cinerama Holiday, and Seven Wonders of the World also had multi-week return engagements during this time period.
In 1961, the theater was equipped to show 70 mm film and in 1968, it was sold to Pacific Theatres, who renamed it Hollywood Pacific Theatre. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, two Stanley Kubrick films had long runs at the theater: 2001: A Space Odyssey, which had its west coast premiere here and played for 80 weeks, and A Clockwork Orange.
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Hollywood Pacific Theatre
Hollywood Pacific Theatre, also known as Warner Theatre, Warner Bros. Theatre, Warner Hollywood, Warner Cinerama, Warner Pacific, and Pacific 1-2-3, is a historic office, retail, and entertainment space located at 6433 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It is best known for its movie theater, which was owned by Warner Bros. Pictures from 1928 to 1953, Stanley Warner Theatres (later RKO-Stanley Warner Theatres) from 1953 to 1968, and Pacific Theatres from 1968 to 1994.
Originally known as Warner Bros. Theatre or Warner Hollywood, the latter used to avoid confusion with another Warner Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, this building was designed by G. Albert Lansburgh, an architect renowned for his theater designs, having previously designed the Palace, Orpheum, El Capitan, and more. The total cost of this building was $2 million ($37.5 million in 2025), $750,000 more than budgeted. It was built on the former site of Paul de Longpré's residence.
The building's centerpiece, its movie theater, was Hollywood's first movie theater designed specifically for sound. The theater was meant to open in 1927 showing The Jazz Singer, but construction overruns and Sam Warner's death prevented this. Instead, the theater opened on April 26, 1928 with a showing of Glorious Betsy. The Jazz Singer star Al Jolson emceed the opening, which marked Warner Brothers's entry into the theater business in California. The theater sat more than 2,700 and was built to complete directly with Grauman's Chinese and Egyptian.
In addition to the theater, the building featured a nursery, emergency hospital, lounge, retail and office space, and a 3,000 square feet (280 m2) radio studio. Radio station KFWB occupied the studio, and two radio masts were added to the building soon after it opened, with the station's letters displayed on the masts.
In 1949, the United States Supreme Court issued the Paramount Decision, prohibiting major film studios from owning movie theaters. To comply, Warner Brothers spun off Stanley Warner Theatres in 1953, at which point this building transferred ownership to that company. Stanley Warner Theatres later merged with RKO Theatres Corp to become RKO Stanley Warner.
In the 1950s, when theaters tried to compete with television by introducing widescreen, this venue was one of the few in Hollywood large enough to convert to Cinerama. After renovations, the theater reopened as Warner Cinerama on April 29, 1953. The new screen was 28 by 76 feet (8.5 m × 23.2 m) with a 146 degree arc and seating was reduced to approximately 1,500 to accommodate the larger screen.
The first film shown at the Warner Cinerama was This is Cinerama, which grossed $3,845,200 ($46.1 million in 2025) in its first 115 weeks, a Los Angeles record. The film closed 133 weeks after opening and on November 15, 1955, Cinerama Holiday opened, playing for 81 weeks and grossing $2,212,600 ($26.2 million in 2025). That film was followed by Seven Wonders of the World, which played for 69 weeks and grossed $1,659,361 ($18.5 million in 2025). Other cinerama films that played in this theater include South Seas Adventure (71 weeks), Search for Paradise (38 weeks), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (28 weeks), and the premiere run of How the West Was Won (93 weeks). This is Cinerama, Cinerama Holiday, and Seven Wonders of the World also had multi-week return engagements during this time period.
In 1961, the theater was equipped to show 70 mm film and in 1968, it was sold to Pacific Theatres, who renamed it Hollywood Pacific Theatre. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, two Stanley Kubrick films had long runs at the theater: 2001: A Space Odyssey, which had its west coast premiere here and played for 80 weeks, and A Clockwork Orange.