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• 'The Parthenon' of film museums
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Following the death of her archeologist husband, Ruth Matthews moves her family back to their house in a quiet suburb, hoping to put the past behind them. While her son Michael is able to adapt, her young daughter Sally, is apparently traumatized by the experience and starts displaying unusual behavior, including building an elaborate tower from playing cards and photographs. Ruth is later court mandated to see Jake Beerlander, an expert in child autism, to help Sally. After false starts, the academy announced plans in 2012 to renovate the 1939 May Co. Wilshire building, a stunning Streamline Moderne structure and classic former department store, as the museum's permanent home. Movie theater owners are optimistic by the gradual reopening of Los Angeles.

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The premiere will bring out the directors of recent Godzilla and King Kong movies, including Adam Wingard, Michael Dougherty, Jordan Vogt-Roberts and Gareth Edwards. The museum allows visitors to hold an actual gold statue in The Oscar Experience (a $15 charge on the museum's $25 admission, tickets should be booked in advance). The immersive simulation puts guests through the experience of walking onto the Dolby Theatre stage in front of cheering crowds while holding the Oscar trophy; each will walk away with a video ready for social media feeds. "We all know, films are made everywhere in the world, wonderful films," Hanks told reporters. "And there are other cities with film museums, but with all due respect, created by the Motion Picture Academy in Los Angeles, this museum has really got to be the Parthenon of such places."

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The film opens in Mexico, where her parents are scientists studying ancient ruins. An old mystic tells the girl that dead people go to live on the moon, and that if she is very quiet, she can hear them. Reno is led to believe that Anne's husband was killed in the Algerian conflict, and he is troubled by Anne's intense fear that Paul will be kidnapped. He then discovers the family has ties to a fascist organization that plans to take over all of Europe.

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There have been building halts and budget overruns for the $484 million project. Even after Tom Hanks announced at the February 2020 Oscars that the museum would open later in the year, the COVID-19 pandemic forced additional delays. However, last week, board of trustees member Hanks, who spearheaded fundraising efforts with Annette Bening and Walt Disney Co. executive chairman Bob Iger, proudly heralded the lauded new building.

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Even with capped capacity and more than half of locations still shuttered, the county accounted for 9% of all movie tickets sold last weekend, according to Comscore. Having more theaters open will likely bode well for upcoming releases like Universal’s thriller “Nobody” with Bob Odenkirk (March 26), “Godzilla vs. Kong” (March 31) and “Mortal Kombat” (April 16). Spielberg, who donated $10 million toward the movie museum, also loaned one of his greatest movie mementos, an original surviving "Rosebud" sled, the emotional centerpiece from Orson Welles' classic film "Citizen Kane."

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She greets you when you walk into that room," says Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter, who designed Gurira's Dora Milaje warrior apparel. "Anybody who loved ‘Black Panther’ and felt empowered by the beautiful, strong women will give that costume a salute." It's unlikely that Piano will squash the nickname that has immediately stuck to the instant Los Angeles architectural icon. But there's no denying his belief that the Academy Museum will blast visitors to new worlds with its official opening Thursday, giving a long-overdue and spectacular movie home for the industry town - the film capital that put the Hollywood in Hollywood.

Film exhibition industry officials expect that number to increase as capacity restrictions are loosened. Comparatively, Los Angeles County had 107 movie theaters open at this time in 2019. With coronavirus cases declining as the distribution of vaccinations increase, moviegoing in Los Angles appears ready to rebound. The county is poised to soon enter the orange tier, which requires fewer new coronavirus cases daily per 100,000 people and a test positivity rate under 5%.

He takes on the shady psychiatrist Morillon and mysterious family friend Leschenhaut, both of whom frighten Anne whenever they are around. Experience movies like never before with the stunning technology in the best seats. ICE IMMERSIVE LED panels on the side walls, luxury seats, superior immersive audio and BARCO RGB laser projection. Trust us…once you experience a movie like this, you’ll never go back. Also tied to the latest monster mashup from Warner Bros., the TCL Chinese Theatre on Hollywood and Highland is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 29.

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With the stakes higher than ever, Frank and Claire work together to consolidate their power and win the White House by any means possible. And soon, in a desperate attempt to communicate with her mother, she builds an elaborate tower of cards - a swooping, soaring architectural masterpiece that looks like it would take dozens of decks of cards, a degree in engineering and a great deal of discreet assistance from rubber cement.

The RealD Premiere Cinema at Regal L.A. LIVE is the biggest movie experience in Los Angeles with the biggest stars and films on the biggest screen. Featuring stadium seating for more than 774 guests, a dedicated premiere lobby and grand staircase, you will get the red carpet treatment the moment you step through our doors. At that time, movie theaters will be able to raise indoor capacity from 25% or 100 people to 50% capacity or 200 people (whichever is fewer). "I have one favor to ask you," Piano, 84, pleaded with a smile from the state-of-the-art theater housed in the new movie museum's colossal Sphere Building. In the meantime, there are currently 42 cinemas open in Los Angeles County, according to Comscore.

By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and to receive email from the Fandango Media Brands. The computer scenes are apparently intended to impress those who have never seen computer-aided design; there are a great many of them, all essentially meaningless. The actual tower looks like any child's mother could build it, probably for well under $100,000. The mother and child climb the tower, in an act that would set off Symbolism Alerts in any writer's workshop. Milton Moritz, the president and CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners of California, notes that some cinemas may never reopen. Others, he predicts, will return sometime in April as exhibitors gradually hire back employees and implement safety and cleaning protocols.

"This is an art form that we've wanted to celebrate and preserve from the beginning," says Dawn Hudson, academy CEO. "We're creating a space in which you're completely immersing yourself in movies. It wasn't a simple equation to solve. But we solved it. And it took some years." By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policies , and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes.