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Grant Thornton report finds no record of RTÉ Board approving Toy Show Musical |
| 25 Jan 2024 | Grant Thornton’s investigation into the Toy Show musical, which made a total loss of €2,272,859, found that the production did not receive a written approval from the RTÉ Board. |
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Trailer released for Alice & Jack starring Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough |
| 25 Jan 2024 | Channel 4 has released the first trailer for upcoming TV series Alice & Jack starring Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough. Aisling Bea joins them in the cast. |
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Bryan Dobson to retire from RTÉ in April |
| 24 Jan 2024 | Bryan Dobson is set to retire at the end of April, after working as a broadcaster at RTÉ for 37 years. |
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Creative Europe Monthly Round-Up - January |
| 24 Jan 2024 | IFTN brings you a round-up of Creative Europe’s key updates such as an A.I. Tools for Film & TV, information events on the European Film Market, and the European Co-development funding deadline. |
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Irish children’s series Louise Lives Large to launch sales at Kidscreen Summit |
| 24 Jan 2024 | Louise Lives Large, commissioned by Ireland’s RTÉ, Canada’s Family Channel and Belgium’s Ketnet will be launching sales at Kidscreen Summit. The market takes place in San Diego from February 4th - 7th, 2024. |
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Netflix release teaser trailer and release date for Ripley starring Andrew Scott |
| 24 Jan 2024 | Netflix have announced that Ripley starring Andrew Scott will launch on the streaming service on April 4th, 2024. The first teaser trailer for the series has also been released. |
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Screen Ireland launches its 2024 slate |
| 24 Jan 2024 | Screen Ireland its 2024 slate, with over 40 Film, TV Drama, Documentary and Animation Projects. Highlights this year include Small Things Like These starring Cillian Murphy, TV thriller The Boy That Never Was, and Bring Them Down, starring Barry Keoghan. |
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Applications open for Greenlight Screenwriting Lab 2024 |
| 23 Jan 2024 | Danú Media, in association with Greasán na Meán Skillnet and National Talent Academy TV and Film has partnered with Philip Shelley to bring Greenlight Screenwriting Lab back for 2024. |
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3 of the 5 most-watched programmes in Ireland during 2023 aired on Virgin Media Television |
| 17 Jan 2024 | Final year-end figures released by TAM/Nielsen for 2023 have revealed that Virgin Media Television had a 19.8% share of viewing among audience members aged 15+, the highest ever in the broadcaster’s history. This represents a growth of +5% year-on-year. |
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Alison Oliver & Sam Keeley cast in Mark Ruffalo-led HBO series Task |
| 17 Jan 2024 | Alison Oliver (Saltburn) and Sam Keeley (Kin) have been cast in Task, a new HBO crime drama series from Brad Inglesby (Mare of Easttown), led by Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things). |
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Cartoon Saloon’s Screecher’s Reach nominated for two Annie Awards |
| 17 Jan 2024 | Cartoon Saloon’s Screecher’s Reach, the Paul Young-directed episode of anthology series Star Wars: Visions, has been nominated for two Annie Awards. |
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Primetime Emmys Roundup: The Bear sweeps with 10 awards |
| 16 Jan 2024 | FX series The Bear sweeped the 75th Emmy Awards with 10 wins. Irish prosthetic makeup artist Johnny Murphy and his team won the Creative Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup bringing The Last of Us up to 8 Emmy awards in total. Limited series BEEF also received eight awards. The cast of Succession took a number of the top acting awards home. |
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Cartoon Saloon-produced Star Wars: Visions episode receives Creative Emmy |
| 09 Jan 2024 | ‘Screecher’s Reach’, the Cartoon Saloon-produced episode of Star Wars anthology Star Wars: Visions has received a Creative Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation in the Production Design category. |
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Creative Europe MEDIA to host information webinar on European Co-Development Funding |
| 09 Jan 2024 | An information webinar on Creative Europe MEDIA’s European Co-Development Funding will take place on January 18th, 2024. The European Co-development call deadline is 6th March, 2024. |
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Irish prosthetic makeup artist Johnny Murphy wins Creative Emmy |
| 09 Jan 2024 | Prosthetic makeup artist Johnny Murphy (The Pope’s Exorcist, Vikings) and his colleagues have received a Creative Emmy award for their work on HBO series The Last of Us. |
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Cillian Murphy wins first Golden Globe for Oppenheimer; Poor Things wins Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy |
| 08 Jan 2024 | The 81st annual Golden Globes saw Irish actor Cillian Murphy honoured with his first award in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama category for his performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster Oppenheimer. |
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Irish talent abroad: Upcoming 2024 releases starring Irish actors |
| 05 Jan 2024 | 2024 promises lots of exciting projects featuring Irish talent to look forward to. Among these projects are Paul Mescal in Gladiator 2, Barry Keoghan in Andrea Arnold’s new film Bird, and Alison Oliver in crime thriller The Order. |
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Screen Ireland announce recipients of fifth round of Screen Mentoring scheme |
| 03 Jan 2024 | Screen Ireland has announced that 25 screen professionals based in Ireland have been selected as mentees for the fifth round of the Screen Mentoring scheme. |
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Éanna Hardwicke Selected for European Shooting Stars Award 2023 |
| 03 Jan 2024 | Irish actor Éanna Harwicke has been named among the ten selected actors of the European Shooting Stars 2023. The selected actors will be presented to the international press, industry, and public at the 74th Berlinale in February 2024. |
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IFTN Christmas Guide: Where to find your favourite Christmas films |
| 18 Dec 2023 | IFTN provides a guide to finding your favourite Christmas films across the various streaming platforms available in Ireland. |
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