{"id":449743,"date":"2026-02-05T03:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449743\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:29:09","slug":"kristen-stewart-buys-l-a-s-highland-movie-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449743\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Stewart Buys L.A.’s Highland Movie Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKristen Stewart<\/a> confirms in the March L.A. issue of Architectural Digest that she has purchased the historic Highland Theatre in Los Angeles\u2019 buzzy Highland Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Highland Theatre, which opened in 1925, was a neighborhood fixture until it closed in 2024. It was rumored that Stewart had bought it last summer as it was being prepped for a film shoot.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI didn\u2019t realize I was looking for a theater until this place came to my attention. Then it was like a gunshot went off and the race was on. I ran toward it with everything I had,\u201d she told Architectural Digest<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m fascinated by broken-down old theaters. I always want to see what mysteries they hold.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart recently said that she would probably be making movies in Europe instead of the U.S., but the theater purchase indicates her commitment to supporting indie film in L.A. \u201cI\u2019d like to make movies in Europe and then shove them down the throat of the American people,\u201d she said last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe theater was recently featured in Marvel Television\u2019s series \u201cWonder Man\u201d<\/a> and was used extensively to film David Fincher\u2019s \u201cThe Adventures of Cliff Booth,\u201d doubling for Quentin Tarantino\u2019s <\/a>New Beverly Theatre.<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart said she intends to make the theater, which requires extensive renovation, into a space for the whole community. \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to make a space to gather and scheme and dream together\u2026We want to make it a family affair, something for the community. It\u2019s not just for pretentious Hollywood cinephiles. I see it as an antidote to all the corporate bullshit, a place that takes movie culture away from just buying and selling. I think there\u2019s a huge desire and craving for what this kind of space can offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile there are no other movie theaters in the Highland Park neighborhood, which is packed with bars, coffee shops and restaurants, nearby Eagle Rock has the Vidiots theater, while Tarantino\u2019s Vista Theater is several miles away in Silver Lake. The nearby cities of Glendale and Pasadena are served by Laemmle and Landmark arthouses, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart hopes to bring \u201cnew ideas\u201d into the restored theater, she told Architectural Digest. \u201cThere are so many beautiful details that need to be restored. I think there\u2019s a way to bring the building back to life in a way that embraces its history but also brings something new to the neighborhood and something new to the whole L.A. film community. That\u2019s the point \u2014 new ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristen Stewart confirms in the March L.A. issue of Architectural Digest that she has purchased the historic Highland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,73140],"class_list":["post-449743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-kristen-stewart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}