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Sundance Cinemas — part of Robert Redford's Sundance Group — hired investment bank Salem Partners in June to find a buyer. And today it has one: Carmike agreed to pay $36 million for Sundance’s 37 screens at five theaters in West Hollywood, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle and Madison, WI. When the deal closes, Carmike…

The exhibition industry continues to consolidate: Los Angeles-based Sundance Cinemas — part of Robert Redford’s Sundance Group — says today that it hired investment bank Salem Partners to find a buyer for its five theaters with 37 screens in San Francisco, West Hollywood, Houston, Seattle, and Madison. Since its…

Los Angeles has lost a lot of movie screens in the last year or so. We also have gained several really impressive theaters in recent years. But as someone who has always loved going out to movies and who grew up working in theaters, it always saddens me to see one close. Last month, Laemmle bid a nostalgic adieu to…

Robert Redford’s Sundance Cinemas will take over the Sunset 5 complex in West Hollywood after Laemmle Theatres was unable to come to terms with the landlord on a new lease. The theater will close at the end of November, the LA Times reported, and will reopen in late spring after undergoing renovations. The venue had…