The BAI has released the results of Round 18 of its Sound and Vision funding scheme today, with €3.78m (of the €4.462m total) allocated to TV projects, and the top amount of €600,000 awarded to Abú Media's Gold Rush drama 'The Klondike'.
'Once' director & writer John Carney has seen his latest film 'Can a Song Save your Life?', starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, picked up for US distribution by the Weinstein Co. at the Toronto International Film Festival.
'Stones in his Pockets', the Kerry-set play by Belfast playwright Marie Jones, is set to be adapted for the big screen - starring 'Game of Thrones' actor Conleth Hill and 'Boyzone' singer Ronan Keating.
Dublin director Gary Shore's 'Dracula' - which is currently shooting in Northern Ireland - will become the first film to be released in a newly struck five year co-production agreement between Universal Pictures and Legendary Entertainment.
'Corp + Anam', TG4's IFTA-nominated series about a crime correspondent determined to pursue the truth behind every story, began filming its second season today in Galway.
'Game of Thrones' - HBO's hugely successful fantasy series which is now filming its fourth series in Northern Ireland, Iceland & Croatia - has added some new faces to well-known characters for the new season.
'What Richard Did' is among the 46 films on the 26th European Film Awards' selection, the shortlist of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2013.
Graham Linehan - best known for creating & writing 'Father Ted' with Arthur Mathews - is bringing his more recent Channel 4 sitcom 'The IT Crowd' back to TV screens later this month for a special farewell episode.
The BFI London Film Festival 2013 line-up, running from 9-20th October, features three films of Irish interest this year - with screenings of 'Philomena', '12 Years a Slave' and 'Saving Mr. Banks'.
'Peaky Blinders' - a new Birmingham crime family saga starring Irish actors Cillian Murphy & 'Love/Hate's Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, set in the 1920s - begins this Thurs 12th Sep on BBC Two.
