Regal Cinemas closes Oakland County location after 27 years

By Adam Graham, MediaNews Group

One other theater in Metro Detroit has launched its ultimate credit.

The Regal Cinemas UA Commerce Township, in Walled Lake, simply off the M-5, has ceased operations. The theater quietly closed on September 25 after greater than 27 years in operation.

“Thanks! It was our pleasure to serve you at this theater. Regal Commerce Township is now closed,” reads a observe taped to the theater’s entrance doorways.

Firm representatives didn’t reply to a request for remark.

The theater’s 13-acre web site is being searched for a multi-family housing improvement with area for houses and retail, mentioned Simon Jonna of the Jonna Group, the Birmingham-based industrial actual property firm managing the sale of the property.

The 14-screen multiplex opened on March 27, 1998 as a United Artists theater, providing stadium seating, premium image and sound in all auditoriums, and valet parking for theatergoers. It opened lower than a yr after Star Southfield raised the bar for theatergoing in Metro Detroit, and a few of its first titles included “Titanic,” “Good Will Looking,” “Wild Issues,” “The Marriage ceremony Singer” and a reissue of “Grease.”

United Artists theaters have a historical past in Detroit relationship again practically a century, to the United Artists Theater in Detroit, designed by C. Howard Crane and opened in 1928. The two,000-seat theater closed in 1971 and was demolished in 2022.

UA Commerce Township 14 was acquired by Regal Cinemas when the Tennessee-based theater chain acquired United Artists within the early 2000s.

Regal is the most important theater chain in america after AMC. The UA Commerce Township 14 was certainly one of two Regal theaters in Michigan; the chain nonetheless operates the Regal Lansing Mall in Lansing.

The theater’s closure follows the closure of a number of film theaters and multiplexes in Metro Detroit, together with the AMC Star Southfield, AMC Fairlane 21, Major Artwork Theater, Maple Theater and Cinema Detroit, all of which have been closed since 2020.

Initially printed: October 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM EDT