Thread: Grauman’s Chinese Theatre...no more

well...kinda.

World’s Most Famous Movie Theater, Grauman’s Chinese In Hollywood, Changes Its Name | /Film

Friday, TCL, a Chinese TV company, announced they had paid $5 million to have their name placed on the theater. It’s now called the TCL Chinese Theater. The money will be used to upgrade the sound and projection at the theater.

This is the second name change for the theater, which was bought by Ted Mann in 1973, after which it was renamed Mann’s Chinese Theatre. That name stuck until Mann’s bankruptcy led to the sale and upgrade of the theater, and restoration of Grauman’s name in 2002.

Here I was getting all freaked out

Same here! Damn it!

Bah. They should have kept Sid Grauman's name on it and called it the TCL Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

I was worried too! I like to periodically check if my feet are as big as John Wayne's cement footprints!

Wasn't it Mann's Chinese Theater for awhile?

Originally Posted by not-mike

Wasn't it Mann's Chinese Theater for awhile?

Yep.

Originally Posted by orpheus

I was worried too! I like to periodically check if my feet are as big as John Wayne's cement footprints!

How would you like to be the only poet in Greece to have John Wayne's footprints under your bed?