{"id":420416,"date":"2026-04-27T19:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420416\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:02:10","slug":"new-five-screen-cinema-deal-to-bring-40-jobs-to-wicklow-after-stella-plans-ditched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420416\/","title":{"rendered":"New five-screen cinema deal to bring 40 jobs to Wicklow after Stella plans ditched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The new Bray cinema will be modelled on others in the Arc Cinema Group, like the one in Preston, England. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BP Braycinema .jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The new Bray cinema will be modelled on others in the Arc Cinema Group, like the one in Preston, England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Bray is set for a major boost with the announcement of a new five-screen cinema and leisure venue at the Bray Central shopping development, following the collapse of earlier plans for a Stella Cinema at the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Irish family\u2011owned operator The Arc Cinema has secured a lease to deliver a 40,000-square-foot cinema alongside a major new entertainment concept, The Arc Arena, at the development in the heart of the town. The project is expected to open in November 2026 and create more than 40 jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new Bray cinema will be modelled on others in the Arc Cinema Group, like the one in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,10687],"class_list":["post-420416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tom-galvin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}