Since Hollywood’s iconic Cinerama Dome movie theater closed in 2020, at the onset of the pandemic, Benjamin Steinberg has been making a scene about it. He started a popular dedicated social media account, launched a petition that amassed more than 30,000 signatures, held multiple rallies and, in recent days, staged a special effects-driven protest.
That last one drew a police response, and now he says his “movement” to “save the Cinerama Dome” has ended amid fear of legal reprisal.
What happened?
The 26-year-old actor-filmmaker hired an on-site lighting engineer to projection-map a vivid rebuke of the property’s ownership on the theater itself for what he views as civic abandonment. The illumination specifically called out Chris Forman, CEO of his family’s Decurion Corp.: “Mr. Forman REOPEN THE DOME!”
Forman’s father William — a pioneering Southern California drive-in theater owner who also founded the Pacific multiplex chain —
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