Construction is underway at the site of the future Academy Museum of Motion Pictures at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. It's no secret that the Motion Picture Academy has hit a few bumps along the way in its effort to build an ambitious film museum in Los Angeles: construction delays, cost overruns, concerns over the pace of fundraising. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, who chairs the academy Board of Governors' museum committee, acknowledged what a long road it's been to get a bona fide movie museum built in the city that's home to the movie business. "I think I share with many people in this room that we're all kind of incredulous that this could be a company town and we don't have a motion picture museum. We should have the world's most pre-eminent motion picture museum – and now we have the opportunity to have that."

Source: Los Angeles Times September 27, 2017 21:23 UTC