Irish storyboard artist Fergal Reilly is set to make his directorial debut this coming year when production begins on the 3D adaptation of hugely popular mobile game, 'Angry Birds'.
Steve Carson - RTÉ Chief Editorial Advisor & Director of Factual Group - is set to take up the role of Head of BBC Northern Ireland Productions before the end of the year.
'Starred Up' - director David Mackenzie's prison drama filmed in Crumlin Road jail in Belfast - has been picked up by Fox Searchlight for UK distribution, following a successful run at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals.
'Love/Hate' actress Ruth Negga, who played Rosie in the first two seasons of Stuart Carolan's crime epic, has been cast alongside fellow Irish actor Brendan Gleeson in HBO pilot 'The Money'.
'Haunted Ireland' - a new paranormal TV pilot from Hood Films & Climbing the Ladder productions - will begin production in Ireland this November, with six contestants invited to visit secret locations around the country.
'Blue Zoo', an Irish-Australian co-production featuring four Irish teenagers training to become marine animal experts, has begun filming in New South Wales.
Irish-Scandinavian co-production 'Call Girl' has been nominated for the European Discovery 2013 Prix FIPRESCI - an annual award presented by the European Film Academy to acknowledge young, up and coming directors who have recently completed their first feature.
Viewers are set to witness a landmark event on Irish television this coming weekend, with Ireland's first animated series for adults to hit our screens Saturday the 12th of October, on TV3's sister channel 3e.
'Get Off The Couch' - a new Setanta Sports series focusing on six ordinary people as they attempt to shed their sedentary lifestyles and take up sporting challenges - begins this 24th October at 10pm.
