Bay Theater Reopens in Palisades Village on Friday

The Bay Theater, a cinema in Palisades Village, reopens on Friday, 13 November, with a programme that mixes new and older films. The Hollywood Reporter reported the date.

The reopening weekend will show Godzilla Minus Zero, You Can See Everything, Wild Horse Nine and The Cat in the Hat. The last of those is an animated film from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, a studio that is separate from the cinema's owners.

The reopening also lines up with the release of Paramount's Ebenezer, a film starring Johnny Depp. The trade paper describes the film as a possible comeback for Depp in Hollywood.

Skydance chief executive David Ellison backed the revival of the cinema alongside developer Rick Caruso, who built Palisades Village. Paramount has said it plans to use the venue for first-run releases, classic films and what it calls experiential events, which are shows built around something more than the film itself.

The cinema is run by The Lot, a chain of luxury dine-in theatres, where guests eat and drink at their seats while a film plays.

The name has a long history in the area. The original Bay Theatre closed in 1978. Pacific Palisades then went roughly 40 years without a movie theatre, until Caruso revived the Bay name as part of Palisades Village in 2018.

The reopening comes nearly two years after the wildfires of 2025 tore through the Pacific Palisades area. Many residents have spent that time rebuilding, and a working cinema is one more sign of the neighbourhood's return to ordinary life.

For a moviegoer, the practical news is simple. The doors open on Friday, and the first weekend is a mix of big-studio animation, a new live-action release and two other films. Paramount's plan for a regular rotation of new releases and classics will show over the coming months whether the Bay settles into the local routine that the old cinema once held.