11/3/2022 0 Comments Carrickfergus omiplexThis includes the 13 screen Cork Omniplex which opened in 2005 and the Rathmines Omniplex which completed in 2014 following a 15-year campaign to open cinemas in The Swan SC, which the Andersons acquired in 1999. Since then Omniplex have expanded in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, there are 23 Omniplex cinemas currently operating. The first cinema to be branded an Omniplex was in Santry (now IMC). The origins of Omniplex lie with the evolution of multiplex cinemas in the early 1990s. Their biggest acquisition came when they bought the Rank Cinemas portfolio in 1988, which included Dublin's flagship Savoy cinema and The Screen cinema, which the Andersons jointly owned as part of the Dublin Cinema Group until 2013. The Andersons continued to acquire, redevelop and sell cinemas across Ireland over the subsequent decades. The first cinema was purchased in Lucan in 1955, where company Chairman and Managing Director Paul Anderson started working at 8 years old before officially entering the business at 18. The first films acquired were The Hills of Donegal and The Rose of Tralee, which were distributed to cinemas across Ireland. The Anderson family have a long history in the film and cinema business dating back to 1948 when Kevin Anderson (Paul Anderson's father now retired) first started a film distribution business.
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