Paramount Theatre patio as seen in "The Xindi"
Paramount Theatre interior as seen in "Demons"
The Paramount Theatre (note British spelling as it is the official one[1]) is one of the four theaters located on the Paramount Pictures lot in Los Angeles, California, USA, and which has sometimes been used as (Star Trek) filming locations.
The theater is located adjacent to Marathon Park and the Bronson Gate. The building itself includes a huge rotunda lobby, tall white columns and curving staircases and a water fountain backdrop and was built in 1993. [2](X) This venue is the largest and best known of the four Paramount lot theaters, two smaller others being the Gower Theatre [3] and the Sherry Lansing Theatre. [4][5](X) (Information from Larry Nemecek) The fourth, the Marathon Theatre, is the smallest one, being a relatively recent and specific press and PR purpose built addition. [6]
On Star Trek, the Paramount Theatre and its surrounding area can be seen as a Florida location in a nightmare experienced by Trip Tucker in the Star Trek: Enterprise third season premiere "The Xindi". According to the episode's call sheets, the scenes including Connor Trinneer, Adam Taylor Gordon, and Erin Price were filmed there on Wednesday 2 July 2003. [7](X) The location was again used for a Star Trek episode when it stood-in as the Assembly Hall of Starfleet Command in the fourth season episodes "Demons" and "Terra Prime". [8](X) Of the other three, it was only the Gower Theatre that also became used as a Star Trek setting on a single occasion, in the Star Trek: Voyager season seven episode "Repression".
The Paramount Theatre was also the place where the first screenings for several Star Trek series were held, including the Voyager series premiere "Caretaker" and the Enterprise episodes "Broken Bow" and "Storm Front". [9](X) The Theatre became home for various film premieres and was used as filming location on the thriller Clear and Present Danger (1994), where it stood in as the hotel lobby. [10](X)
The 2001 Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition [11] and its later 2022 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray followup release [12] premiered in L.A. at the Paramount Theatre as well, as did the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine documentary What We Left Behind in 2018. [13]
Footnote[]
- ↑ To this day, the theater is oftentimes also referred to by its American, but wrongly, spelled Paramount Theater name, by Americans in particular unsurprisingly, [1](X) as among others evidenced on the quite recent 4K UHD The Motion Picture – The Director's Edition premiere event announcement poster. It is also not to be confused with the in 1961 demolished classic Paramount Theatre, once the largest ever built in Hollywood.
External link[]
- Paramount Theatre at ParmountStudios.com – official site