Plans to build a nine-screen cinema at the Swan Centre in Rathmines, Dublin, are due to be lodged with Dublin City Council shortly.
Sawbridge Ltd is looking to build the cinema complex on top of the existing two-story shopping centre to create a four-storey building.
The complex will comprise a total of 1,719 cinema seats. Access to the cinema will be through the shopping centre.
Sawbridge Ltd lists Mr Paul Anderson and Ms Margaret Anderson as directors.
Mr Anderson is also one of the owners of the Ward Anderson cinema group, the largest cinema group in the country.
This is the second time plans for a multiplex cinema have been put forward. Permission for a seven-screen cinema at the shopping centre was refused by Dublin City Council in 1999.
Omniplex Holdings, an entertainment and leisure group controlled by Mr Paul Anderson and his wife Margaret, then subsequently bought the Swan Shopping Centre for some £13 million in 1999.
The Dublin Cinema Group (DGC), the holding company for the group's Dublin operations, owns the Savoy and Screen cinemas in Dublin.
Last year the company acquired the Stella cinema, also in Rathmines, for an undisclosed sum.
The Ward Anderson group owns some 130 cinema screens around the country including omniplexes in Cork, Galway and Limerick.