End credits rolling for Pasadena's Rialto

August 17, 2007 "Making a single-screen theater profitable is tough to begin with, but when you have competition (from multiscreen complexes) and when you have an aging facility, which is what we have, it makes it very difficult to make it work," Landmark Theatres CEO Bill Banowsky said. The theater, designed by L.A. Smith in the Spanish Baroque style with Egyptian flourishes, was prominently used in films and commercials, most notably in Robert Altman's "The Player" (where Tim Robbins commits his murder) and in the opening sequence of "Scream 2." Timothy Hillman, who worked as the location manager for "Scream 2" and is a Pasadena resident, recalled needing to fix up the theater during the 1998 production.

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