Dear Friends and Patrons,

NOTICE! the Corktown Cinema’s Christmas miracle party has been postponed/rebranded as our Donor Appreciation Party (date forthcoming). Sorry for the inconvenience, and we look forward to seeing you there!

After a summer in exile we are very happy to announce that we have found a new home in Corktown!  The spot is super exciting, too..  shaping up to be a sort-of indie shopping mall with a record store, book store, and eateries all in the works!  You all have been so supportive of us throughout our tenure, and we implore you to help us make this new space greater than ever.  Please visit Detroit Big F Deal, a local crowd-funding site for information on how you can become part of our new theatre.  Thanks!

oh, also, please check out our new facebook page and give us a like!

more from our press release…

Two years ago, four friends opened an independent art-house cinema in the Cass Corridor called the Burton Theatre on a shoestring budget and a hunch.  The Burton was the only art-house/indie/cult/weird offering the city of Detroit had seen in decades beside the venerable Detroit Film Theatre at the DIA. The effort was met with tremendous community support and a loyal patronage.  Despite the group’s success, and perhaps because of a bit of naivety, the Burton was forced to suddenly close its doors due an irreconcilable dispute between landlord and tenant.  Despite this setback, the desire has remained to have the unique voice the Burton provided in metro Detroit’s cinematic landscape. After a summer of programming “in exile” at a variety of spaces from warehouses to art galleries to street corners, the folks from the Burton have found a tremendous partnership with New York developers Scott Griffin and Angel Gambino to reincarnate the Burton Theatre as the Corktown Cinema, in Detroit’s oldest neighborhood. The Corktown Cinema will be the cornerstone of Griffin and Gambino’s larger development of 2051 Rosa Parks Boulevard (just off Michigan Avenue), a 100,000 square foot former brass foundry that is quickly becoming the place of choice for Detroit’s most innovative businesses and shops, as well as the Detroit bureaus of the Huffington Post and Curbed.

It is certainly true that the Burton could not have existed at all if it weren’t for our patrons’ tremendous support and faith in our mission. In the genesis of this, our reincarnation, the need for support from the Detroit community is greater than ever. In that spirit, the Corktown Cinema will be launching an online crowd-funding campaign november ninth with Detroit Big F Deal to help support the cost of transforming a raw industrial space into a classy cinema.  Corktown Cinema is excited to be able to offer contributors a token of our thanks in the form of memberships to the theatre, exclusive merchandise, discounts to local independent businesses and invitations to private events. It remains our honest belief that Detroit deserves the variety of interesting and entertaining work we strive to show, and we can’t wait to be back!