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Windmill Lane Entertainment CEO Exits To Set Up Rockabill Media |
| 29 Mar 2012 | Michael Murphy, former CEO of Windmill Lane Entertainment, has left the Dublin company to start-up Rockabill Media. |
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Liam Neeson Confirmed For ‘Dark Knight Rises’ |
| 29 Mar 2012 | Irish actor Liam Neeson has been confirmed to appear in director Christopher Nolan’s final Batman movie, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. The announcement from producers Warner Brothers ends months of speculation about his casting in the eagerly awaited blockbuster which will be released in Ireland on July 20. |
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Irish Actor Domhnall Gleeson In Talks For Time-Travel Dramedy |
| 29 Mar 2012 | IFTA Award-winning Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson is in talks to star in a Working Title Films production about time-travel. |
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Five Minutes With... Irish Director Liam McGrath On His Latest Documentary |
| 29 Mar 2012 | Irish director and founder of Scratch Films Liam McGrath has immersed himself in Irish subcultures for nearly 20 years. His award-winning debut documentary ‘Boys for Rent’ prompted RTÉ to pick up another controversial topic that McGrath documented; ‘Male Rape’, which was part funded by the Irish Film Board (IFB) and RTÉ. |
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‘Doc McStuffins’ Breaks Records For Ireland’s Brown Bag Films And Disney |
| 28 Mar 2012 | Ireland’s Brown Bag Films are celebrating after the series premiere of their new animated series, ‘Doc McStuffins’, broke ratings records for the Disney Channel. |
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"Great Reception" for Irish at Irish Film Festival, Boston |
| 28 Mar 2012 | The Irish Film Festival, Boston celebrated its 13th year last weekend with a string of sold out screenings and Q&A’s with some of Ireland’s leading industry experts in attendance. The Irish titles screening at the event received a "great reception" from the US crowd, says Festival chief Dawn Morrissey. |
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Daily Bite: News Corp Firm Accused of TV Sabotage |
| 27 Mar 2012 | News Corporation dominate the big television industry news story of the day…. Some extraordinary claims were made in last night’s Panorama programme on BBC One. Panorama reported that a subsidiary company of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation used a computer hacker to sabotage Sky TV's biggest rival, ITV Digital. |
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Ireland’s First Odeon Cinema Opens For Business |
| 27 Mar 2012 | Ireland’s first Odeon cinema will officially open to the public today (March 27) at the Point Village in Dublin’s Docklands. |
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Irish Feature ‘Citadel’ Secures US Distribution |
| 27 Mar 2012 | ‘Citadel’, the Irish award-winning film from first-time writer/director Ciaran Foy has been jointly bought for US distribution by Cinedigm and New Video. |
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Saoirse Ronan to wear Irish designer's clothes in 'The Host' |
| 27 Mar 2012 | Irish designer Sandra Murphy has been chosen to supply the costumes for Saoirse Ronan’s upcoming alien film ‘The Host’. Murphy, originally from County Clare and now based in New York, sent around 40 pieces to the costume department. |
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Smedia Awards 2012 announce new Written, Audio and Visual category |
| 27 Mar 2012 | The National Student Media Awards 2012, known as the Smedias, have announced a new category added to the event this year. Best Written, Audio or Visual work on Science or Education has been introduced to the awards for the first time, and is sponsored by the Higher Education Authority. |
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Irish Director Dearbhla Walsh Begins Filming For ‘Borgia’ Season Two |
| 27 Mar 2012 | IFTA Award-winning Irish director Dearbhla Walsh (The Silence) has signed up for a second series of Renaissance-based drama 'Borgia'. No stranger to period dramas, having previously worked on Irish drama 'The Tudors' and the Charles Dickens adaptation 'Little Dorrit', for which she received an Emmy Award, Walsh will work alongside German film director Christoph Schrewe (The Sea Wolf) to direct 12 hour-long episodes. |
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Irish Companies Get Ready For MIPTV |
| 27 Mar 2012 | Irish television companies are this week gearing up for the MIP series of international showcase events, which takes place in Cannes, France, from this Friday (March 30) and runs until April 4. |
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IFB Frameworks Offers €50,000 Funding for Animation |
| 27 Mar 2012 | The deadline for the Irish Film Board (IFB) short animation scheme, Frameworks, has been announced. Applicants have until Friday 20th April to submit their projects to be in with a chance to receive up to €50,000 in funding from the IFB, in conjunction with the Arts Council, BAI and RTÉ. |
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Ballantine's Short Film 'A House Of Cards' In Prep |
| 27 Mar 2012 | Pre-production has started on independent short film ‘A House of Cards’ which is scheduled to begin shooting in Dublin on 16th April. ‘A House of Cards’ will give an insight in to a difficult family reunion coming to terms with their mother’s illness. |
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'Titanic' Maiden Voyage Sails Away With 230,000 Irish Viewers |
| 27 Mar 2012 | ‘Titanic’ gave TV3 their biggest Sunday night TV audience of the year with an average of more than a quarter of million viewers tuning into the first episode of the four-part series from screenwriter Julian Fellowes. |
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Daily Bite: James Cameron & 'The Hunger Games' Breaking Records |
| 26 Mar 2012 | It’s been a day of record-breakers of sorts on the international film front with three stories dominating the latest film and television news internationally. Here’s our daily bite on the stories you need to know. |
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Filmbase/RTÉ Short Film Awards 2012 Deadline Approaches |
| 26 Mar 2012 | The application deadline for the annual Filmbase/RTÉ Short Film Awards 2012 is Friday, 30th March at 5pm. |
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Scéal Short Films Progress with Recks, Collins & Breathnach |
| 26 Mar 2012 | The Scéal short film initiative has progressed to the workshops stage this week. The initiative, funded by TG4 and the BAI, offers Irish-speaking writers and directors the chance to adapt a story from literature into a short film. |
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Souljacker Secure Cavan Arts Funds for 'The Gloaming' |
| 26 Mar 2012 | IFTA-nominated filmmakers Souljacker (Origins) have received support from the Cavan Arts Office for a new live-action short to be filmed in the area. Sean Smith has written and will direct Irish-based horror ‘The Gloaming’ which will be filmed over two days in Bruskey bogland in Cavan. |
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