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UPDATE, Friday AM: This list will be updated on a regular basis: As we first told you (scroll down) Hollywood’s 94-year-old TCL Chinese Theatre is reopening today, however for tours only. This will be followed by Imax showtimes of Tenet on Monday with a full official ribbon-cutting/reopening ceremony on Monday March…

Updated writethru 7:03PM after 5:05PM post: Deadline has confirmed that New York’s upper west side movie theater, the Landmark at 57 West, is closing after the venue’s circuit couldn’t come to terms with its landlord, the Durst Corporation. The arthouse luxury eight-plex which opened in the fall of 2017, which was…

Landmark Theatres said Monday that it is shutting down all locations for precautionary reasons in the wake of the current coronavirus outbreak. In a statement obtained by Deadline, Landmark said, “All Landmark Theatres are temporarily closed as of Midnight tonight. This decision allows our staff to remain at home…

EXCLUSIVE: A big seismic shift has just occurred in the exhibition space: ArcLight Cinemas has just hired Ted Mundorff as the chain’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Deadline has just learned. The move brings Mundorff back to the chain where he served as VP and Film Buyer prior to his run at Landmark. Mundorff…

Stumbling over some gala paraphernalia dropped by a Town & Country party rental truck outside the Landmark Theatres on Tuesday, I had to ask: What's the occasion? As it turns out, it is something rather grand. According to the Landmark concierge (all the best theaters have one), the stray tables and such were bound…

Paul Serwitz has been hired by Landmark Theatres Owner/Chairman Charles S. Cohen to be President and Chief Operating Officer of the country’s largest prestige film theater chain, with 51 theaters and 251 screens in 27 markets. His appointment follows on the heels of the surprise exit of longtime Landmark head Ted Mundo…

Two and a half cheers for the Landmark Theatres in West Los Angeles. The parking escalators have been broken for weeks. Those purple and black staff outfits are a bit somber. And $15 dollars seems high for an hour and 35 minutes of Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice, as delightful as it is. But the Landmark, so…

The movie business famously creates curious bedfellows: Consider Olivia Wilde and Charles S. Cohen. Wilde is the gifted actress whose buoyant first-time directing venture, Booksmart, is trying to break the indie film business out of a dismal slump. Cohen is the billionaire investor and art film connoisseur who, as the…

After roughly eight months on the selling block, Landmark Theatres is being purchased by Oscar-winning theatrical distributor and producer Cohen Media Group. Cohen Media Group will acquire the nation’s largest and most prominent stateside independent theater chain, spanning 252 screens in 27 markets. The announcement…

EXCLUSIVE: A report surfaced last night that Amazon is in the running to acquire the Landmark arthouse movie chain. We hear from various sources on good authority that Amazon isn’t in the running nor are they even in the final rounds for Landmark. Landmark, owned by Wagner/Cuban cos., was put up for sale a second time…

Atom Tickets has pacted with independent cinema circuit Landmark Theatres, and will now sell tickets to the chain’s 53 theatres and 255 screens. Atom sells movie tickets to more than 20K screens in North America. Other chains that Atom’s mobile ticketing app covers include AMC,, Regal, Southern Theatres, National…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s very early in the process, but Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios is taking a look at Landmark Theatres which is on the sales block. "We are pursuing the acquisition of numerous companies that have excellent management and brands in distribution, content, cable networks and technology. Yes, we are…