One year after the four-acre backlot fire, Courthouse Square re-opens for Universal Studios Hollywood's trams.
The world’s most-photographed town square, and the site of over a thousand movie and TV shoots dating back to the 1940s, was partially burned in June 2008. It is now fully restored.
Courthouse Square is best known as the main square of Hillsboro in the “Back to the Future” film series. It was previously known as “Mockingbird Square” after serving as a principal location for the Oscar-winning “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It was dressed as Buffalo, NY for Jim Carey in “Bruce Almighty,” as River City, Iowa for the great musical, “The Music Man,” as Wellman College for “The Nutty Professor,” and as the center of Sweet Apple, Ohio in the classic “Bye Bye Birdie.” It‘s been overrun by “Gremlins,” by large people in “Village of the Giants” and aliens in "They Came From Outer Space.” Steven Spielberg filmed it as the courthouse in “Amistad."
The event will also mark the introduction of Universal Studios Hollywood’s new “mobile movie theater” Trams, newly outfitted with Hi-Def flat screen monitors, playback and high-end surround-sound audio systems.
Courthouse Square Re-opens at Universal Studios
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Courthouse Square, Universal Studios Hollywood © Jim Epler/Flickr
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