Westwood’s movie theaters the Village and Bruin are set to close later this week. “The last day of operation for the Bruin & Village Theaters under Regency is Thursday, July 25,” Lyndon Golin, Regency Theatres president, confirmed in an email Sunday, first reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Regency Theatres had managed the theaters for the past 14 years, enduring a turbulent time for theatrical exhibition and the COVID-19 pandemic, but the leases for the properties end later this month.
There is a silver lining for at least one of the theaters – the Village is set to reopen in the not-too-distant future, thanks to an effort by director Jason Reitman and a small army of filmmaker investors (including Christopher Nolan, J.J.