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The theater in Los Angeles\u2019 Westwood Village will continue to host major premieres plus first-run films and retrospective programming, with the goal to open in 2027.<\/p>\n
Led by Reitman, the group of filmmakers that took over the theater in early 2024 is now known as the Village Directors Circle. More than 30 directors are involved, including Steven Spielberg<\/a>, Denis Villeneuve<\/a>, Lulu Wang<\/a>, J.J. Abrams<\/a>, Ryan Coogler<\/a>, James Gunn<\/a>, Chlo\u00e9 Zhao<\/a>, Guillermo del Toro<\/a>, Christopher Nolan<\/a> and Gina Prince-Bythewood<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Directors Circle has committed to fundraising to restore and remodel the hundred-year-old movie palace into a multi-purpose screening and event facility. The American Cinematheque will program, manage and be the operating partner for the 1,000 seat-plus venue,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Westwood\u2019s historic Village Theater, which was acquired by the Village Directors Circle, will partner with the American Cinematheque to program and operate the venue. The partnership was announced Tuesday by Cinematheque chair Rick Nicita and Jason Reitman. The theater in Los Angeles\u2019 Westwood Village will continue to host major premieres plus first-run films and retrospective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2165180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2165179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/American-Cinematheque-to-Program-Westwoods-Village-Theater-Aiming-for-2027.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165181,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165179\/revisions\/2165181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}