"Hop"

We have a situation in Tim Hill's "Hop" (Universal, 2011) with a bunny who's designated to be the year's Easter Bunny but decides to skip his duties and run away to be a drummer. He takes an Elon Musk-like tunnel from Easter Island (where the bunnies live, you know) to Hollywood.  Here he's hopping along in front of the Pantages, 6233 Hollywood Blvd.

See the Los Angeles Theatres pages about the Pantages Theatre for many photos of the building. It's a film/vaudeville house designed by B. Marcus Priteca that opened in 1930.

The bunny at Hollywood and Vine. He gets a map of the stars' homes and heads to the Playboy mansion. He likes that logo with the ears, you see. There he meets James Marsden, a slacker who's house sitting there.

When the two go for a ride around town we get a drive-by of the former La Reina Theatre, on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks. See the page about the La Reina for a history of that theatre along with some photos.

Marsden agrees to take the bunny, who he calls EB (for Easter Bunny) to audition as a drummer for The Hoff (David Hasselhoff) at the Orpheum, 842 S. Broadway.

Hasselhoff onstage conducting auditions. 

 EB in audition mode.

Marsden coming on from stage left to ask why The Hoff stopped the audition. He stopped it because he was already convinced that EB was wonderful.

As we leave the theatre we get a look at signage going up for the Hoff.  All is well -- except that the Pink Beret ninjas have been sent by EB's father to bring him back to Easter Island. All ends well as EB and Marsden decide to split the duties of being the Easter Bunny. Marsden becomes the first human to take on the job.

Visit the pages about the Orpheum Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site for a history of the 1926 vintage vaudeville house along with hundreds of photos.

On IMDb: "Hop"