This could go either way but let's be positive: - Landmark to Open "Largest Independent Film Center" at LA's Westside Pavilion in '07
West Los Angeles' Westside Pavilion and Landmark Theatres are collaborating to create what the two describe as "the largest independent film center in the country," the groups revealed Thursday. The new Landmark Film Center at Westside Pavilion also will partner with the Los Angeles film industry and area film schools to "promote the education and training of those pursuing careers in the film industry, and to provide a venue for screening the works of up-and-coming filmmakers." The new Landmark Film Center at Westside Pavilion will be three-stories complete with restaurants on the ground floor."

Sundance is opening a big indie film center in Chicago as well with Disney-like merchandising and expensive coffee shops. Sucked into the Beast or carving out a niche? (indiewire)