Cinerama Dome, Geodesic dome movie theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States.
The Cinerama Dome is a movie theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, featuring a distinctive geodesic dome made of concrete that reaches about 75 feet (23 meters) in height with a diameter of roughly 90 feet (27 meters). The building stands directly on Sunset Boulevard and forms part of a larger cinema center with 14 additional screens in the adjacent structure.
Cinerama Inc. unveiled the geodesic dome theater design in February 1963, and Pacific Theatres began razing buildings on Sunset near Vine that April. The dome opened on November 7, 1963 with the premiere of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, built in 16 weeks. It closed in 2020; after ArcLight's 2021 collapse, Sony Pictures bought the leases in 2026 and plans to reopen it in 2028.
The name comes from Cinerama, the widescreen process the Dome was built to show; its deeply curved 32-by-86-foot screen needed a special "rectified" print to counter distortion. The first film, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, ran 66 weeks, the longest run there, and returned for the Dome's 25th anniversary in 1988. In 2006 Johnny Cash's band The Tennessee Three played the first live concert in the building.
The theater stands at 6360 Sunset Boulevard near Vine Street, its entrance set back behind a row of rectangular columns beneath the white marquee. It has been closed since 2020; Sony Pictures bought the leases in 2026 and plans to reopen the Dome and the former ArcLight complex in 2028, so check before traveling.
The dome consists of 316 individual concrete panels arranged in hexagonal and pentagonal shapes to form a geodesic pattern designed by architect Pierre Cabrol. This construction method gives the structure its special strength and at the same time allows the large span without interior supports.
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