Light House Cinema, a new four-screen, 600-seat arthouse cinema has been announced for Smithfield Market. Operated by the same team that ran Dublin’s original Light House Cinema in Middle Abbey Street, the cinema is scheduled to open late 2007.
Designed by award-winning architects Derek Tynan Associates, the new Light House Cinema promises a programme of the best Irish, independent, foreign-language, arthouse and classic cinema, the Light House team of Neil Connolly and Maretta Dillon expects to attract over 200,000 admissions per year to the new venue at Smithfield.
The cinema will be custom-built with investment from developers Fusano Properties Ltd and grants from the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Cultural Cinema Consortium - a joint initiative of the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board.
Neil Connolly, on behalf of Light House Cinema says, “Light House at Smithfield promises to be the most comfortable and stylish cinema in Dublin. We plan to build on the tradition established by the original Light House and we are looking forward to welcoming back our loyal audience and to the challenge of building new audiences for world cinema.”