New cinema to open in Dublin shopping centre early next year

A new cinema is set to open in a Dublin shopping centre early next year in news that will please the Irish capital’s film fans.

It’s been a thrilling year for cinema goers to date, with Deadpool & Wolverine, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Inside Out 2 and Dune 2 all proving to be box office hits in Ireland.

Outside of the big blockbusters, rap group trio Kneecap’s film charting their origin and Saoirse Ronan’s The Outrun have done great business on Irish shores.

With cinemas now firmly back to the ticket sales of before the COVID pandemic, a new 5-Screen cinema on the first floor of Nutgrove Shopping Centre in Rathfarnham, Dublin, will open in 2025.

The cinema chain teased that Omniplex Nutgrove ‘will offer an elevated cinema experience’, thanks in part to each screen having a 50 ‘Pullman’ style sofas with footrests. 

Additionally, the cinema will boast a beer and wine lounge selling ‘themed cocktails and refreshments’.

Costing over €3 million to build, the new cinema will create around 20 full and part-time jobs.

Since The Landscape Cinema closed in 1965, Rathfarnham has not had a local cinema. However, Movies @ Dundrum is located nearby the southern Dublin town.

‘Our elevated cinema experience in Nutgrove will feature all ‘Pullman’ style double and single sofas in five intimate 50-seater auditoriums offering the latest blockbuster movies,’ Mark Anderson, director of Omniplex Cinema Group said. 

Steven Stocks, centre manager of Nutgrove Shopping Centre, added: ‘It is a fantastic entertainment addition and much sought after use which is missing from our local community.

‘We are also pleased that the cinema will provide new employment opportunities for the local area.’

Launched in 1991, Omniplex already has 16 cinemas in Northern Ireland and 22 cinemas in the Republic of Ireland.