Trends · data through September 2026

Movie Theaters in Michigan

Iceflower tracks 130 stores from 106 movie theater chains in Michigan. Phoenix Theatres grew fastest over the last year, ahead of GQT Movies and MJR Theatres.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
106
Tracked stores
130
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked movie theater chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Phoenix Theatres and GQT Movies sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Phoenix Theatres - -4.1%
2 GQT Movies - -5.4%
3 MJR Theatres - -13.5%
4 NCG Cinemas - -14.6%
5 Studio C - -18.0%
  • Celebration Cinema
  • Cinemark
  • Emagine Novi
  • GQT Movies
  • Phoenix Theatres
  • NCG Cinema
  • Phoenix Theaters
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

130 tracked store locations in Michigan. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 23 of the 130 stores (18%); 96 of the 106 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are movie theaters, the same share as across the United States.

  • Celebration Cinema (7)
  • Cinemark (2)
  • Emagine Novi (1)
  • GQT Movies (5)
  • Phoenix Theatres (3)
  • NCG Cinema (2)
  • Phoenix Theaters (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Celebration Cinema 7
  • 2 GQT Movies 5
  • 3 NCG Cinemas 5
  • 4 Phoenix Theatres 3
  • 5 Studio C 3
  • 6 MJR Theatres 3
  • 7 Cinemark 2
  • 8 NCG Cinema 2
  • 9 AMC Theatres 2
  • 10 Sperry's Moviehouse 2
  • 11 Strand Theater 1
  • 12 Courtyard Cinema 1
  • 13 Hastings 4 1
  • 14 Diesel Concert Lounge 1
  • 15 Regent Theatre 1
  • 16 Lyrics Theatre 1
  • 17 Firebird Theater 1
  • 18 Saginaw 8 1
  • 19 Rialto Theater 1
  • 20 Bogar Theatre 1
  • 21 Charlevoix Cinema III 1
  • 22 Willow Creek Cinemas 8 1
  • 23 Vickers Theatre 1
  • 24 Harbor Springs Lyric Theatre 1
  • 25 Bohm Theatre 1
  • 26 Riverside Cinema 3 1
  • 27 Vogue Theatre 1
  • 28 US 23 Drive-In 1
  • 29 Rogers Cinema 8 1
  • 30 Romeo Theatre 1
  • 31 Cherry Bowl Drive-In 1
  • 32 Tri-City Cinema 8 1
  • 33 Kingston Theater 1
  • 34 The Michigan Theatre 1
  • 35 NCG Coldwater Cinema 1
  • 36 Cheboygan Movies 1
  • 37 Adrian Digital Cinema 10 1
  • 38 AMC John R 15 1
  • 39 Eagle Theatre 1
  • 40 Kent Theater 1
  • 41 Tawas Family Theatre 1
  • 42 Emagine Woodhaven 1
  • 43 Strand Theatre 1
  • 44 Marquis Theatre 1
  • 45 Gem Theatre 1
  • 46 Clinton Theatre 1
  • 47 The Bay Theatre 1
  • 48 Riverwalk Theatre 1
  • 49 Ionia Theatre 1
  • 50 Farmington Civic Theater 1

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