"Scream 2"

We see a lot of the Rialto Theatre in South Pasadena at the beginning of Wes Craven's "Scream 2" with Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Liev Schreiber and Jada Pinkett Smith. (Dimension Films, 1997).

A look at the marquee in "Scream 2." Jada Pinkett Smith is going to have a bad moviegoing experience. "Blame it on the movie."

Coming into the Rialto lobby. 

A moment of hesitation.

 

Jada Pinkett Smith at the Rialto snackbar.

Heading in to the show.

Not quite the Rialto auditorium in "Scream 2." We're actually at the Vista Theatre for the auditorium sequence.

The Variety Arts Theatre, 940 S. Figueroa St., is used for the auditorium of Windsor College, the site of much of the action late in the film.

A proscenium view of the Variety Arts. 

A sidewall view from onstage.

Neve Campbell going chopping backstage in "Scream 2."

A view from the stage out into the house at the Variety Arts. The dangerous man on the right with the gun is Liev Schreiber.

Thanks to Escott O. Norton of the advocacy group Friends of the Rialto screenshots of the Rialto lobby. They're in a Rialto Theatre in the Movies album on the Friends Facebook page. 

See the Los Angeles Theatres pages on the Variety Arts, the Vista Theatre, and the Rialto Theatre for lots of data and many photos of the buildings.

On IMDb: "Scream 2"