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Metropolitan Theatres is Los Angeles's oldest movie theater chain. Opened in 1923, they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2024, at which point they owned 15 theaters: ten in southern California (including seven out of eight in Santa Barbara), three in Colorado, and two in Utah.
History
Metropolitan Theatres was founded by Joseph Corwin in 1923. At the time, the Corwin family operated almost every movie theater in downtown Los Angeles's Broadway Theater District, the city's premiere theater venue until Hollywood was built up in the 1920s and 30s.
In the 1950s, Metropolitan Theatres expanded into Santa Barbara. In the 1970s, they shifted to blaxploitation films in their downtown Los Angeles theaters, in the 1980s, those same theaters shifted again, to Spanish language cinema. The company at one point had more than 1000 employees.
The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2024. Chief Executive Officer David Corwin blamed the bankruptcy on the Covid 19 pandemic, which he said was "devastating to the business," as well as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and increased labor, rent, and utilities expenses.
List of theatres
Notable theaters that have been either owned or operated by Metropolitan Theatres include:
= Greater Los Angeles
=Broadway Theater District
Los Angeles Theatre
Orpheum Theatre
State Theatre
Tower Theatre
Palace Theatre
Arcade Theatre
Roxie Theatre
Rialto Theatre
Globe Theatre
United Artists Theatre
Cameo Theatre
Broadway Theatre
Other
Warrens Theatre, downtown Los Angeles
El Portal Theatre, North Hollywood
The Westlake, Westlake
El Miro Theatre, Santa Monica
WGA Theater, Beverly Hills
Frida Cinema, Santa Ana
= Elsewhere in California
=Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara
Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara
Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco