NCG Courtland Cinemas
4226 E. Court Street,
Burton,
MI
48509
4226 E. Court Street,
Burton,
MI
48509
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Reopened by Silver Cinemas with 6 screens on November 6th, 1998 as the first all-stadium seating cinema in town and taken over by National Amusements on April 5th, 1999. More grand opening ads posted.
Closed by National Amusements in 1991.
this reopened as the Eastland Twin Cinema on December 16th, 1983. Another ad posted. More to come.
Taken over by National Amusements on December 17th, 1982. Another ad posted.
This opened as ABC Mall Theatre - Eastland Mall on October 8th, 1969, with “Midnight Cowboy”. Grand opening ad posted.
This theater closed September 27, 2021:
Burton, MI: NCG - Courtland Cinemas Closed [Oct 1, 2021]
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.
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.
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.
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.
Now officially reopened.
yep it’s there! hope they actually spent some money instead of dusting the cobwebs and turning the power back on.
I’ve found absolutely nothing saying that NCG is reopening this. Anyone wanna verify?
^Where did you hear this?
NCG is reopening the theater on May 20th.
The theater complex is still vacant. For the past several years, Courtland Center has slowly been losing tenants.
I can add that after the nearby Showcase Cinemas Flint East closed, this cinema was converted to a full-price first-run house.
Another piece of the Redstone empire crumbling away….
The other ABC Theatre on Pierson Road was the Northwest Theatre. That closed around 1982 at the same time the Eastland Mall Theatre was sold to National Amusements. The Northwest Theatre was later torn down and is a vacant lot today. When ABC left the theater business, Plitt took both theaters over.
When I was existed in Flint in the mid-70s the Eastland Mall was an ABC theatre. When Henry Plitt took over ABC I don’t know if he kept this or sold it off. ABC had another theatre north of town, on Pierson Rd. as I recall, but I don’t remember the name of it.