Movie Tavern by Marcus Deerbrook

Scott Neff on September 22, 2016 at 7:20 pm

This was originally the General Cinema Deebrook Commons 6. Opened on 8/16/1984. After it’s closure it was converted into a Movie Tavern.

BigScreen_com on November 11, 2021 at 9:16 pm

As of March 2021, the theater was no longer listed on Marcus Theatres' website, and is believed to be closed.

Humble, TX: Movie Tavern - Deerbrook Closed Permanently [Mar 12, 2021]

dallasmovietheaters on August 12, 2025 at 5:03 pm

Sears' Homart Development announced the Deerbrook Mall project way back in 1978. An outparcel cinema was conceptualized in 1980 drawings. But here was a long enough lag in Homart’s development of Deerbook Mall for a lot of activity to take place. And that’s what occurred. AMC came to the area and developed its own cinema in the shadow of the Deerbrook Mall project called the AMC Humble 6 which it opened in May of 1981. Trammell Crow came along and was inspired by the Deerbrook Mall’s promise and created The Commons at Deerbrook basically adjoining the edge of the yet-to-be-opened Mall’s edge.

General Cinema signed on for the Trammel-Crowe Cinema although it is believed that Plitt may have actually been the original intended client. The architect for the General Cinema Deerbrook Commons I-VI cinema was Watkins Carter. So AMC seeing all of this and the Mall taking shape, changed the name of its Humble 6 to the AMC Deerbrook 6 in October 1983. After all, why not take advantage of all of the pre-release marketing and hype?

The Deerbrook Mall launched theatre-less on July 18, 1984. followed by The Commons' General Cinema Deerbrook Commons I-VI opening here a month later on August 16, 1984. Homart appears to have been hurt by all of this and pressed a renewed outparcel plan for an exterior theater. AMC contracted for the outparcel 6-screener in January of 1985 signing on to plans shown as the AMC Deerbrook Plaza 6 with a Christmas 1985 intended launch likely to dissuade Loews or some other circuit from coming into the zone. It was already competitive enough and, fortunately for both GCC and AMC, that game of Risk move didn’t materialize.

But Homart didn’t give up and - ten years later - finally got its cinema deal for a theater. And it was a biggee in the megaplex era - the AMC Deerbrook 24 was announced in 1994. General Cinema was flat-footed with way too many aging multiplexes and just watched AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Edwards and everyone else destroy it. The AMC Deerbrook 24 replaced the Humble / Deerbook 6 opened officially on May 24, 1996 after sneak peaks and other looks. General Cinema was in deep trouble.

General Cinema closed the Copperfield and West Oaks Central 7 in October of 1998. The white flag was up on December 10, 1998 with GCC moving on from the Baybrook Mall and Willowbrook and AMC taking on the Deerbrook Commons. The move left GCC with just two GCCs in the aging ‘plexes: Meyerland and Nasa Point. It was game, set and match. AMC appears to have moved on from the Deerbrook Commons on March 2, 2003 with the venue inching toward its 20-year leasing expiry.

With cinema dining experiences in vogue as alternatives to the 24- and 30-screen megaplexes, Movie Tavern came in and gave this space a $2 million makeover relaunching as the Humble Movie Tavern on June 16, 2006. It was renamed as the Movie Tavern Deerbrook in 2007, the Movie Tavern Humble in 2011, back to Movie Tavern Deerbrook in 2012.

On November 5, 2018, Marcus Theatres acquired the Movie Tavern circuit. Marcus closed the Movie Tavern Deerbrook on March 16, 2020 for the COVID-19 pandemic. Some concessions were sold early in the pandemic. And on June 11, 2020, a social media post by Movie Tavern Deerbrook announced a vague plan for a reopening would be forthcoming. But in 2025, we are still awaiting that reopening as the MT-D final showtimes were with reduced seating on March 16, 2020.