Mrs Brown spurs on profit at Dublin Cinema Group

Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie and Tom Cruise’s Edge of Tomorrow helped to triple operating profits at the Ward-family controlled Dublin Cinema Group last year.

New figures lodged by Dublin Cinema Group show that operating profits at the firm more than trebled from €278,942 to €917,269 in the 12 months to the end of October 31 last.

The sharp rise in profits took place after the year’s biggest movies were released before October last including the top three of the four grossing movies in Ireland in 2014: Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie (€3.8m), The Lego Movie (€3.4m) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (€2.5m).