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The typical cinema owned by IMC has between five and ten screens. The company owns 18 Cinemas altogether, with 15 in the Republic of Ireland and 3 in Northern Ireland, most recently buying MovieLAND in Newtownards, County Down after the passing of its owner, the cinema still used the MovieLAND branding until it was rebranded to IMC in 2023.
The shopping centre also contains an IMC cinema, which opened in 1998 with six screens and a capacity of 871 seats. [11] [12] This cinema replaced the former, four-screen, Showcase Cinema, which was located above the old Athlone Shopping Centre in Irishtown, and which opened in May 1992 and closed in early 1998, when the operator of the Showcase Cinema went into partnership with the IMC to ...
Ireland has a relatively high rate of cinema attendance, and had the highest rate in Europe in 2017. [17] There are several cinema chains operating in Ireland. Among them are ODEON Cinemas (formerly UCI/Storm Cinemas), Omniplex, IMC Cinemas (Both Omniplex and IMC are owned by the Ward Anderson group), Cineworld, Vue and Movies@Cinemas.
Chain logos. Ward Anderson was a cinema chain in Ireland until 2013. [1] It was the largest chain in Ireland and operated cinemas throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland.It was not a single company but was a group of companies such as Provincial Cinemas Ltd., the Dublin Cinema Group, the Green Group, and so on, owned by its founders, half brothers Leo Ward (born 1919) and Kevin Anderson (born ...
The first cinema to be branded an Omniplex was in Santry (now IMC). Since then, Omniplex has expanded in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland . 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 ...
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That They May Face the Rising Sun is a 2023 Irish film directed by Pat Collins. It is an adaptation of the 2002 novel of the same name by John McGahern . The film was nominated for 11 awards, winning Best Film, at the 2024 Irish Film & Television Awards .
Newtownards (/ ˌ n juː t ən ˈ ɑːr d z /; Irish: Baile Nua na hArda [1]) is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies at the most northern tip of Strangford Lough, 10 miles (16 km) east of Belfast, on the Ards Peninsula. It is in the civil parish of Newtownards and the historic baronies of Ards Lower and Castlereagh Lower. [4]