UTV have submitted an application to the BAI for the creation of a new channel in the Republic of Ireland, creating over 100 new jobs across offices based in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Waterford by the time of going to air in 2015.
Sunday night’s season finale of 'Love/Hate’ may not have unfolded according to plan for every character, but RTÉ was today celebrating its highest ratings yet for the Dublin gangland drama yet - with over one million viewers tuning in for the climactic episode.
James Mullighan, newly-appointed this year as the creative director of the Cork Film Festival, spoke to IFTN this week as his inaugural festival prepares to get underway this week.
John Crowley’s adaptation of Colm Tóibin’s novel 'Brooklyn’ - starring Saoirse Ronan as a young Irish woman who emigrates to America in the 1950s - has secured a number of distribution deals this week.
'Zoo' - a family movie inspired by the true story of a Northern Irish woman who rescued a baby elephant from being put down during World War II - is in development and scheduled to shoot from late summer 2014 in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Ontario, Canada.
Hundreds of Irish extras garbed as Scandinavian barbarians have laid their battle-axes to rest and wiped the last of the fake blood from their beards as the History Channel’s 'Vikings’ has completed filming on another season at Ashford Studios, Wicklow.
Irish co-production 'Run and Jump' has been picked up for US distribution by Sundance Selects, a subsidiary of AMC, the network behind 'The Walking Dead' and 'Breaking Bad'.
French political artist & author Tomi Ungerer will see the Cartoon Saloon adaptation of his children's book 'Moon Man’ and the documentary about his life 'Far Out Isn’t Far Enough’ both released in Irish cinemas by Wildcard Distribution this 27th and 13th December respectively.
Dublin-based training institution The Factory will offer five filmmakers the chance to shoot a professional-standard promo for a proposed micro-budget feature film, IFTN has learned.
Irish production company Vision Independent Productions has renewed an international distribution deal with Warner Brothers International Television Production, IFTN has learned.
IFTN shines the spotlight on another three film festival stories of Irish interest, from the premiere of short film 'All Mortal Flesh’ to 'The Red Bear’ winning a directing award in LA and a film series dedicated to the 1913 Lockout in Cork.
