NCG Courtland Cinemas
4226 East Court Street,
Burton,
MI
48509
4226 East Court Street,
Burton,
MI
48509
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Opened in 1969, the same year the Eastland Mall opened, it was originally a single screen theater. National Amusements took it over in 1982 which twinned it. When the Eastland Mall was renamed Courtland Center, the cinema was appropriately renamed. It closed in the mid-1980s when the nearby co-owned Showcase Cinemas Flint East added additional screens.
After several unsuccesful attempts to reopen it, Silver Cinemas reopened it as the Silver Cinemas after expanding it to six screens with all-stadium seating. National Amusements quickly took it over, converting it into a second-run bargain-priced house.
The Courtland Center Cinemas was closed on December 11, 2008. It was reopened NCG on May 20, 2011.
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The theater complex is still vacant. For the past several years, Courtland Center has slowly been losing tenants.
NCG is reopening the theater on May 20th.
^Where did you hear this?
I’ve found absolutely nothing saying that NCG is reopening this. Anyone wanna verify?
yep it’s there! hope they actually spent some money instead of dusting the cobwebs and turning the power back on.
Now officially reopened.
NCG did a nice job in getting this cinema going again. All screens are digital with stadium seating and they moved equipment from the Clio Cinemas which they recently closed into this cinema.
According to http://burtonview.mihomepaper.com/news/2011-05-19/News/NCG_Movies_to_reopen_Courtland_Cinemas_this_Friday.html this cinema was expanded and renovated in 1998 by the Silver Cinemas chain and renamed Silver Cinemas which added four additional screens and renovated the two existing screens with stadium seating, reclining seats and cupholders. National Amusements bought it just months later and renamed the theater back to Courtland Cinemas.
The original operator of this cinema was the United Detroit Theatres unit of ABC Theatres. When ABC exited the theater business, Plitt Theatres took over. Plitt sold it to National Amusements before it first closed in the mid-1980s.
When the theater opened in 1969, its entrance was very plain looking with just a channel letter sign above the entrance saying “Mall Theatre.” Before Silver Cinemas reopened it in 1998, they also revamped the entrance adding the nice tile work and the marquee over the entrance.