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Two Horror Films for Northern Ireland ‘Vampires versus Leprechauns’ & ‘DEADLocked’ |
| 09 May 2012 | Belfast-based production company Causeway Pictures has announced it will shoot two feature films in Northern Ireland this autumn. |
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Irish Writer Shane McCabe Wins Best Short Screenplay Award at United Film Festival |
| 08 May 2012 | Irish screenwriter and director Shane McCabe has won the award for Best Short Screenplay at the United Film Festival in Los Angeles. |
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Brendan Gleeson Cast as War Criminal in ‘An Ordinary Man’ |
| 08 May 2012 | Dublin actor Brendan Gleeson (The Guard) has been cast as a war criminal in director Brad Silberling’s upcoming thriller ‘An Ordinary Man’. Gleeson will play a man in hiding whose only human contact becomes his maid, played by ‘Limitless’ actress Abbie Cornish. |
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Daily Bite: ‘Avengers Assemble’ Hits €503m Globally |
| 08 May 2012 | Today’s Daily Bite sees ‘Avengers Assemble’ continuing to power through the global box office, smashing records; BSkyB’s move into the Middle East and North Africa and an on-set interview with James Bond production designer Dennis Gassner. |
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Irish Feature ‘Songs For Amy’ Wins At Newport Beach Film Festival |
| 08 May 2012 | Irish feature film ‘Songs for Amy’ has been awarded the ‘Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking’ prize at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California. The film, which received its US premiere at the festival last Tuesday, also ranked fourth out of 400 films on the audience ratings at the festival. |
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Dublin-Born PR Promoted at Warner Brothers International |
| 08 May 2012 | Dublin-born Désirée Finnegan has been promoted to senior vice president of international publicity at Warner Brothers International. She previously held the vice president position, after being promoted from director of international publicity upon joining the company in 2004. |
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Glen Gannon’s ‘Stripped’ is RTÉ/Filmbase Doc on the Box Winner |
| 08 May 2012 | A documentary idea dealing with the effects of living in recessionary Ireland on a man in his 20s has been named the winner of RTÉ and Filmbase’s TV50 Doc on the Box initiative to find and nurture a new talent in documentary. |
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Exclusive: Outkast Rapper Andre 3000 To Shoot Jimi Hendrix Biopic In Ireland |
04 May 2012 | EXCLUSIVE
American rapper Andre 3000 is to star as Jimi Hendrix in a new movie about the rock legend which will begin filming in Ireland later this month. |
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RTÉ & BBC Make History with New Joint Funding Initiative |
| 04 May 2012 | RTÉ and BBC have announced a joint funding initiative which will cover the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland. The initiative is the first of its kind between all three broadcasters RTÉ, BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Scotland. |
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Irish short films ‘All Night Long’ and ‘Partly Cloudy’ Enter Post-Production |
| 04 May 2012 | Irish writer/director Mark Cogan has a busy few weeks ahead of him as post-production gets underway on two of his short films, and a third short screening at the Boston LGBT Film Festival this weekend. |
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Daily Bite: YouTube Urges Producers To Pitch For €12m Content Deals |
| 04 May 2012 | Today’s Daily Bite includes YouTube’s call to producers to pitch ideas for their UK original channels series as well as the opening of a new state-of-the-art studio outside of London. |
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Odeon To Re-Brand Irish Cinemas |
| 04 May 2012 | The Odeon group has announced that it is to re-brand its nine multiplexes in Ireland in a move which will see its UCI and Storm cinemas re-named as Odeon multiplexes. |
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Competition Authority Can’t Mend RTÉ & TV3 Rift |
| 04 May 2012 | The war of words between state broadcaster RTÉ and private-owned TV3 continues after the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) released a statement yesterday urging RTÉ to reconsider its new trading scheme. RTÉ developed the new scheme as a result of an Enforcement Decision from the Competition Authority last year. |
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Dublin to Host International Celebration of John Ford |
| 03 May 2012 | Oscar-nominated directors Peter Bogdanovich, Jim Sheridan and John Boorman, as well as Oscar-winning editor Joel Cox (Unforgiven, Mystic River), are amongst the influential filmmakers who will gather in Dublin to honour and celebrate the legacy of legendary Irish-American John Ford as part of the inaugural John Ford Ireland Film Symposium over June 7-10. |
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Five Minutes With… Irish Film Historian Dr Kevin Rockett |
| 03 May 2012 | Celebrated film historian Dr Kevin Rockett has been credited with shaping Irish cinema over the last 25 years through a number of his published works on the subject. |
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‘Albert Nobbs’ & Re-Creating the Sound of 19th Century Dublin |
| 03 May 2012 | Having won an IFTA for their work on ‘Albert Nobbs’, Ardmore Sound and Screen Scene’s Niall Brady and Steve Fanagan discuss the challenges they faced on helping bring the sound of 19th Century Dublin to Glenn Close’s latest movie. |
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Irish Documentary Wins Special Jury Award At Learning On Screen |
| 03 May 2012 | IFTA Award-winning filmmaker Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín was awarded the Special Jury Award at the Learning on Screen Awards ceremony last week for his documentary ‘A Boatload of Wild Irishmen’. |
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Pierce Brosnan Joins Owen Wilson in ‘The Coup’ |
| 02 May 2012 | Irish actor Pierce Brosnan has been confirmed to star opposite Owen Wilson in forthcoming US thriller ‘The Coup,’ which will begin shooting in October. |
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‘Fair City’ Reaches RTÉ Player After Deal With Union |
| 02 May 2012 | RTÉ has reached an agreement with Equity and the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters' Guild that will allow them to make ‘Fair City’ available on the RTÉ Player and RTÉ One+1. |
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TV3 & RTÉ To Retain Champions League Football Rights |
| 02 May 2012 | TV3 and RTÉ are to retain the rights to broadcast Champions League soccer for at least the next three years. TV3 will again retain the right to broadcast Tuesday night matches while RTÉ will broadcast Champions League action on Wednesday nights until May 2015. |
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