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. the new cinema would have been in direct competition with their jointly owned cinemas in dublin city centre, the savoy, and the screen. 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.