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Irish Supernatural Short to Begin Shoot in County Louth |
| 27 Apr 2012 | Irish supernatural short ‘Gallow Hill House’ will begin production on location in Termonfeckin, Co Louth, next week. |
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Daily Bite: Twickenham Film Studios Gets Lifeline |
| 26 Apr 2012 | News that a mystery buyer has come into save world famous London film studio Twickenham has given staff there a lifeline; the announcement of the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or jury and a massive one-day haul at the box-office by ‘Avengers Assemble’ are amongst the international news stories in today’s Daily Bite. |
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‘Loving Miss Hatto’ To Wrap Filming In Ireland |
| 26 Apr 2012 | Irish director Aisling Walsh’s BBC television drama ‘Loving Miss Hatto’ is due to wrap filming this Saturday (April 28) following a four-week shoot in Ireland. The €2m BBC drama, produced by Ireland’s Octagon Films (The Tudors) and Britain’s Left Bank Films, was shot on-location in Dublin and Wicklow. |
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'The Poisoners' to Film in Ireland - Lena Headey, Emily Watson and Anna Friel star |
| 24 Apr 2012 | Ireland’s Octagon Films are to co-produce ‘The Poisoners’, a dark World War One comedy starring Lena Headey (Game of Thrones, 300), Emily Watson (War Horse) and Anna Friel (Limitless). |
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Irish Sci-Fi Thriller 'Dark By Noon' In Production |
| 24 Apr 2012 | Irish sci-fi thriller ‘Dark By Noon’ is set to resume shooting next month for one week before moving into post-production. The feature film, a co-production between Vico Films and IKKA Films, shot for five weeks in Dublin over the Christmas period and is currently having visual effects added. It is co-written and co-directed by Alan Leonard and Mike O’Flaherty. O’Flaherty also produces for IKKA Films alongside Vico’s Cormac Fox. |
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Luke McManus Wraps Filming on ‘Homemade’ Short |
| 17 Apr 2012 | Irish short ‘Homemade’ has wrapped filming at the Tea Rooms in the Phoenix Park in Dublin. ‘Homemade’ tells the story of pensioner Tommy Fogarty whose attempts at impressing his new lady friend go awry when a group of teenage girls set out to destroy his plans. The short is centred around a church cake sale, with ‘Father Ted’ actor Jim Norton (Bishop Brennan) playing lead character Tommy, and ‘The Clinic’ actress Deirdre Connolly portraying his potential love interest. |
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Ruth Rendell Thriller 'Thirteen Steps Down' Filming In Ireland |
| 16 Apr 2012 | Contemporary TV thriller ‘Thirteen Steps Down’ is mid-way through a five week shoot on location in London and Dublin. Based on the Ruth Rendell novel, the two-part psychological thriller is being produced by Ireland’s Parallel Films under commission from ITV. |
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George R.R. Martin Reveals ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 3 Details |
| 16 Apr 2012 | George R.R. Martin, the man behind the best-selling novels which fantasy adventure ‘Game of Thrones’ is based, has revealed additional details about the upcoming third season. |
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‘Keys To The City’ Wraps Dublin Shoot |
| 16 Apr 2012 | Irish feature film ‘Keys to the City’ has wrapped filming in Dublin and is preparing for post production. The 90-minute recession-based drama was crewed by a group of Digital Feature Film masters students in conjunction with Filmbase and Staffordshire University (UK). |
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'Game of Thrones' Season Three Greenlit for Northern Ireland |
| 12 Apr 2012 | Fantasy adventure ‘Game of Thrones’ will return to Northern Ireland's shores to film season three. The 10-part series has been given the greenlight for a third season following record ratings for season two. The popular HBO series will return to Paint Hall Studios in Belfast where seasons one and two filmed, as well as the new sound stages in Belfast and the Linen Mill Film Studios in Banbridge. The season two premiere grossed 8.3 million viewers, and is already expected to surpass season one’s ratings of 9.3 million. |
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Irish Titanic Shows to Screen This Week |
| 05 Apr 2012 | Titanic is the disaster that just keeps on giving. 100 years on from the sinking of the Irish-born luxury liner, the public’s appetite for revisiting the fateful night of April 14, 1912, shows no sense of dimming. Already a flood of Titanic documentaries, television drama series and feature films are to this week arrive on-screens having set sail from production houses all over the world over the past 12 months. |
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Sky’s Multi-Million Film Deal May Benefit Ireland |
| 05 Apr 2012 | Sky’s announcement that they are to invest heavily in British film, news about this week’s “leaked” Cannes list and Tom Cruise’s rock star debut are amongst the international stories in today’s Daily Bite. |
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BBC's 'Nick Nickleby' to Film in Northern Ireland |
| 04 Apr 2012 | Northern Ireland is the current go-to filming location for international production companies as new BBC drama ‘The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby’ is due to begin filming there in June. |
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Irish Animation ‘Fear of Flying’ Takes Off at South Studios |
| 03 Apr 2012 | Irish short animation, ‘Fear of Flying’, has completed production in preparation for its premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh this July. Shot at Dublin-based South Studios, ‘Fear of Flying’ was funded by the Irish Film Board’s Frameworks project, with RTÉ and the Arts Council. |
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'Trivia' Production Begins on Second Series |
| 02 Apr 2012 | The second series of Irish comedy drama ‘Trivia’ has begun filming in Co Kildare. Principal photography for Grand Pictures’ six-part series got underway last week in Celbridge with Tom Hall (Bachelors Walk) once again returning to direct, while Fionn Comerford (Camera Op, Life’s a Breeze, Roy) joins the series as director of photography. |
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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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Shooting on ‘The Fall’ to get underway in Belfast as Gerard McCarthy joins cast |
| 22 Mar 2012 | Shooting on BBC2 thriller ‘The Fall’ is to get underway next Monday (March 26) in various locations around Belfast with Irish actor Gerard McCarthy (Hollyoaks) the latest talent to join the cast. |
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Britain to Introduce Tax Incentive for TV Dramas |
| 21 Mar 2012 | A tax credit scheme for TV and animation production companies is to be introduced in Britain in a bid to keep big budget British television productions in the UK. British chancellor George Osborne today (March 21) unveiled the plans as part of the 2012 British Budget. |
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'Ripper Street' Begins 19-week shoot in Dublin |
| 21 Mar 2012 | ‘Ripper Street’, an eight-part series for the BBC based on the Jack The Ripper murders, has begun filming in various locations around Dublin. Created by Richard Warlow (Waking the Dead) and starring Matthew Macfadyen (Pride and Prejudice, Frost/Nixon), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) and Adam Rothenberg (House), ‘Ripper Street’ is currently using a Dublin army barracks and the area in and around Dublin Castle to re-create London's East End in 1889. |
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'Vikings' TV Series Eyes Summer Production Start Date for History Channel |
| 20 Mar 2012 | The History Channel has ordered a full-series of ‘Vikings’, the Irish co-produced 10-part series which is due to begin pre-production next month. The series, which will chronicle the world of the Norsemen during medieval times, will be the first scripted drama to air on the cable network TV channel and will also be the first to make use of Joe O’Connell’s newly-built Ballyhenry Studios in Ashford, Co Wicklow, which has been constructed for a reported cost of €22m. |
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