Variety: Skydance's Paramount takes the Palisades Bay Theatre, and…

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt's one-thirty, this is The Couch Panel, and Variety reports that Paramount is taking over the Bay Theatre in Pacific Palisades, which Netflix ran and Cinepolis ran before that.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIs it okay for one movie theater to switch owners three times and still call itself a neighborhood spot?

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAbsolutely not.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA building that changes hands that often has no loyalty, and I say that as a man who has stayed at the same pub for thirty years, mostly because they've stopped asking me to leave.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI think it's fine. I've had four apartments in this city, and none of them ever wrote to complain.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe new part is that San Diego's The Lot will handle the operations, and the reopening is planned for later this year.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have been to embassies with more continuity than this theater.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSan Diego is running a Palisades cinema? The popcorn will have to commute.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorButter doesn't mind the drive.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd Variety notes that Warner Bros. isn't the only Los Angeles institution being absorbed into Skydance this month. At this rate the whole city will be one gift shop.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThen I've changed my mind, because a landmark that gets bought this fast clearly wants out, and I respect that.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOf course you changed sides. Gloria agreed with you, and you panicked.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorShow of hands: should a theater be allowed three landlords? Two for yes, one for no, and nobody is happy about it. Chat, vote below.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe coddle contest pets all get two weeks' notice from their couches anyway, so everybody gets moved on eventually.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFiled. Best exit interview of the year.