Westside Pavilion Cinemas

10800 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90064  | map |

Opened: October 16, 1985 as the four-screen Samuel Goldwyn Pavilion Cinemas, an operation of Landmark Theatres. It was in the Westside Pavilion mall at Pico and Westwood Blvd. When ownership of the circuit changed it was rebranded as the Westside Pavilion Cinemas. 

Architects: The mall was designed by Jon Jerde & Partners for the Australia-based Westfield Group. It opened May 31, 1985.

The Westland Twins had been on the site before the mall was built. There were also other stores in the strip mall called "Westland" plus a free-standing May Co. store. The May Co. building became part of the new mall. A new Nordstrom store on the southeast corner of Pico and Westwood became the other anchor tenant. Also nearby, and a casualty of the mall's 2006 westward expansion, was the Picwood Theatre at 10872 Pico. The Pico Drive-In had been on the property from 1934 until 1944. 

 

An L.A. Times ad noted that the new theatres were "on level 3 by the May Co., across from the food court." The full page ad from the Calendar section of the October 13, 1985 issue:

 

 

Thanks to Tony Joe Stemme for locating this for a post about the neighborhood's theatres on the Cinema Treasures Facebook group. 

 

 

On the right we get a glancing view of the theatres in this shot from Tom Petty’s video "Free Fallin'" (1989) which features many shots of the mall. It's on YouTube.

A 3rd floor view west toward Nordstrom. The food court is on the left with the theatres just out of the frame to the right. It's one of 29 photos shared in a fine 2025 post about the mall on the Back In My Day L.A. Facebook page. They note that their various photos came from the L.A. Times, Curbed LA, the L.A. Conservancy, Deadline, Patch, Nextdoor and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Some of their mall history: 

 

"... The mall’s postmodern aesthetic design featured a glass roof, bright colors and pedestrian bridges meant to evoke a 'European shopping arcade.' A concept architect Jon Jerde called 'retailtainment.'... In 1991 the mall expanded into what would be known as 'Westside Too,' which added more shops and restaurants across Westwood Boulevard connected by a sky bridge. Though the addition opened with great fanfare and was very popular the first couple of years, the popularity soon began to decline as shoppers favored the original parts of the mall. 

 

"By the late 1990’s only a few shops and restaurants remained open in Westside Too. In 2000 the original part of the mall was renovated with a more contemporary, upscale look. Westside Too remained open until 2006 when it closed to make way for a 12-screen Landmark movie theater and new restaurants...."

 

A 1985 shot of the 1st floor of the mall. Thanks to Jason Horton for locating it for a post on the Lost Angeles Facebook group. 

Ted Hermann commented: 

"I live right in that neighborhood so I saw many movies there. It was a cheap fourplex to begin with, the theatres were tiny, the screens were small, and when a seat would break they would just put tape over it, which is always the first sign at the theater is going downhill."

Closed: 2007 was the end of the 4 plex. The replacement was called The Landmark, a twelve screen theatre in a newly added section of the mall west of Westwood Blvd. That complex opened June 1, 2007. 

The 4-plex was boarded up after closing. Jeff Arellano comments:  

 

"I remember the wall up where they were -- but never a store. Auditoriums could have been back there closed off until the mall was gutted. I had gone a few times before the mall closed. I want to say 2014, 2016 and I recall it being walled off."

 

Russ Jones says: 

 

"Nothing took that space. It remained boarded up until demolition." 

 

Status: The mall was gutted around 2018. Ted Hermann notes: 

 

"Stores were closing all over that mall in its final three years, with nothing replacing them. At the very end I think you only had Macy's and a few scattered others."

 

 

Street views: 

 

A 1984 construction view located by the Back In My Day L.A. Facebook page for their December 2025 post about the mall. That's the new Nordstrom store in the foreground. 

 

 

An early entrance view. Thanks to Back In My Day L.A. for locating the shot. 

 

 

  

A c.2006 view west showing the expansion to the west side of Westwood Blvd. It's another photo appearing with the Back In My Day L.A. post. They comment on the decline and fall:  

 

"... The decline of the Westside Pavilion began in 2015 when Nordstrom announced it would relocate its store at the mall to its competitor the nearby Westfield Century City. The relocation took place in 2017. Also in 2017 Macy’s, (formally May Company/Robinson’s May) announced it too was closing its location at the mall which happened in 2019.

"In early 2018, the Macerich Company that owned the Pavilion at the time announced a joint venture with Hudson Pacific Properties in which most of the retail space within the three-story enclosed structure would be converted into 584,000 square feet of Class-A creative office space named 'One Westside' with Google leasing the entire space. The Landmark Theater multiplex initially was to remain open to the public but it unfortunately closed on May 22, 2022.  

"In December of 2023, UCLA announced a $700 million deal to acquire the former Westside Pavilion property from Hudson Pacific to transform it into the UCLA Research Park. The new complex will house the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy at UCLA and the UCLA Center for Quantum Science and Engineering. In 2025, an apartment complex named 'Overland & Ayers' was built on the site of the demolished Macy’s parking structure." 

The Westside Pavilion in the Movies and on Video: David Zakrzewski notes that Peter Werner's film "No Man's Land" (Orion Pictures, 1987) used the mall for some scenes. It stars Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney and Lara Harris.  

Tom Petty’s video "Free Fallin'" (1989) features many shots of the mall. It's on YouTube.

The Pavilion also appeared in Amy Heckerling's "Clueless" (Paramount, 1995). That film starred Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd and Dan Hedaya. 

More information: Thanks to the Cinema Tour listing about the theatre for the opening date.  

Also on the property at various times: Pico Drive-In | Picwood Theatre | Westland Twins | The Landmark | 

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