Ward Anderson

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 1915),[2] and its brands were managed by members of their families.

[3][citation needed] The group's flagship was the Savoy Cinema in O'Connell Street, Dublin.

It also owned the Screen Cinema in D'Olier Street, which tends to show more alternative films.

The two families fell out after the Andersons signed a deal to build a cinema on the Stephen's Green shopping centre, without notifying, or involving the Ward's in the new cinema.

[4] This resulted in a long-running legal struggle that led to a major case in Four Courts in which the Ward and Anderson families eventually agreed to split their cinema empire in January 2013.