Los Angeles Theatres: Pacific Glendale 18 / AMC The Americana at Brand 18

322 Americana Way Glendale, CA 91210 | map |

Opened: May 2, 2008 as the Pacific Glendale 18 in the Americana at Brand Center. It's on the west side of Brand Blvd. just north of Colorado St. The photo is one that appeared with an August 2021 Americana at Brand Facebook post.

Website: www.amctheatres.com

Architects: Perkowitz + Ruth Architects, a practice now rolled into a firm called RD Collaborative.

Current seating: 2,407 total. The capacities, including handicap spaces: #1 - 101, #2 - 104, #3 - 101, #4 - 125, #5 - 125, #6 - 101, #7 - 96, #8 - 89, #9 - 89, #10 - 194, #11 - 195, #12 - 101, #13 - 109, #14 - 213, #15 - Imax - 145, #16 - AMC Prime - 144, #17 - Dolby Cinema - 142, #18 - 233. Thanks to Cinema Treasures contributor Nothing But Cinema for getting the counts off Fandango.

Pacific's closure: The theatre closed in March 2020 due to Covid restrictions. On April 12, 2021 Pacific announced that it was not reopening any of its Pacific or ArcLight branded locations. See the Cinerama Dome page for links to many news stories about the decision.

Caruso was quoted in several stories saying that, one way or another, he wanted to resume the movie operations at Americana and the Grove. Bloomberg ran an April 17 story "Billionaire Caruso Studying Option of Taking Over Mall Cinemas." Thanks to Jonathan Raines for spotting the story.

AMC ended up taking over this location as well as the Grove. Ryan Faughner had the July 19, 2021 story in the L.A. Times: "AMC takes over former Pacific theaters at Grove and Americana." Thanks to Jonathan Raines for spotting the article. Variety and Hollywood Reporter also covered the news. AMC noted that the Grove was the second highest-grossing movie theatre and the Americana was the fifth highest-grossing theatre in the L.A. area.

Reopening: The complex reopened under AMC management in August 2021.

Interior views:

A photo of the outer lobby by Becky Sapp of Berliner Studio/BEImages that once appeared with "Americana at Brand: Extra Butter Please," a 2008 Curbed L.A. story by Dakota Smith that's now missing its photos.

Looking in the front doors. A greeting from "Zootopia 2" characters and Rhett and Scarlett in the panoramic WPA-style Hollywood mural. Photo: Bill Counter - 2025

On the left: guest services. Photo: Bill Counter - 2025

On the right: ticketing. The path to the inner lobby is behind all those barricades at the left side of this image. Photo: Bill Counter - 2025

Looking toward the bar on the left and the snackbar straight ahead. Thanks to Fred Topel for sharing this photo and seven others in a September 2025 post for the Cinema Tour Facebook group. He was there to see the 50th anniversary reissue of "Jaws."

Another angle on the bar. Just beyond are the entrances to auditoria #1 and #2. Photo: Bill Counter - 2025

The entrances to #1 and #2 are on the left before you get to the snackbar. Photo: Bill Counter - 2025. Behind the photographer are the Imax house (#15), AMC Prime (#16) Dolby Cinema (#17) and a "no-special-format" house, #18.

A look at the snackbar. Photo: Fred Topel - 2025

The condiment station and self-serve drink machines to the left of the bar. Photo: Fred Topel - 2025

A view to the inner lobby for screens #3 to #14, to the left of the bar. Photo: Fred Topel - 2025

Looking down the inner lobby just in beyond the snackbar. #14 is behind us, #13 on the right. It's an image from a 3 minute 2025 video tour with Satoshi Cuevas of Backstage Axxess that he shared on YouTube.

A view to the pod at the end with #7 to #10. That's #6 on the left, #11 in the foreground on the right. Photo: Fred Topel - 2025

Closer to the end. Image: Satoshi Cuevas on YouTube - 2025

One of the smaller houses in the complex. Photo: Fred Topel - 2025. He notes that the movable masking still works -- and they were using it.

Looking back toward the main lobby. Theatre #5 is on the right, #14 is straight ahead with the entrance behind the snackbar. Photo: Fred Topel - 2025

On the way out after passing the snackbar on the left are the Imax house (#15), AMC Prime (#16) Dolby Cinema (#17) and #18. Across the hall to the right are auditoria #1 and #2. Photo: Fred Topel - 2025. Thanks for sharing the photos!