In 2015 Omniplex launched OmniPark, the new leisure park brand covering four of the parks that company owns, on which it has cinemas. The auditoriums include custom-designed leather reclining armchairs as standard, HD digital projection, MasterImage 3D and Dolby Atmos surround sound. New OmniplexMAXX screens are planned in Dundonald and Dundalk. Other OmniplexMAXX screens have opened in Mahon, Cork, Limerick, Banbridge, Waterford and Rathmines, which opened in 2014 with the Irish premier of The Inbetweeners 2. This includes the OmniplexMAXX in Antrim which, at 23 metres wide, is Ireland's widest cinema screen. The OmniplexMAXX is the next generation of giant format cinemas screens being rolled out across Omniplex's cinemas. GCG owned two cinemas in Sligo and Arklow, in the Bridgewater Shopping Centre OmniplexMAXX In May 2015 it was announced that Omniplex had bought the Gaiety Cinema Group (GCG) in an €8m deal. Omniplex are reported to sell 5.5m cinema tickets per year. This includes weekly live show from New York's Met Opera, The Bolshoi Ballet and music concerts. Īs well as screening films Omniplex cinemas also show live events that are broadcast from around the world. The company announced the acquisition of the Quayside cinema in Balbriggan, which was bought from NAMA and refurbished at a cost of €1.5m. This 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.

Check the actual website of the cinema you are attending before you set out! Check with cinema staff that the subtitles will DEFINITELY be switched ON! (Some forget to do so.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. IMPORTANT! Shows can reschdule or cancel. Check the actual website of the cinema you are attending before you set out! Check with cinema staff that the subtitles will DEFINITELY be switched ON! (Some forget to do so.)

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