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Creative Europe Monthly Roundup - March |
| 26 Mar 2024 | IFTN brings you a round-up of Creative Europe’s key updates including the latest round of Creative Europe MEDIA Co-development funding results, a webinar on Virtual Production, and inaugural writers’ room programme that will use virtual and augmented reality. |
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Big Things Films to produce Blood Runs Coal starring Cillian Murphy |
| 26 Mar 2024 | Cillian Murphy will star in Blood Runs Coal, a Universal adaptation of a true crime story. Murphy and Alan Moloney will produce through Big Things Films. |
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Directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor discuss Baltimore |
| 21 Mar 2024 | We spoke with directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor about their latest film, Baltimore. The film releases in Irish cinemas this Friday, March 22nd. |
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Netflix commission Lisa McGee’s How To Get To Heaven From Belfast |
| 19 Mar 2024 | Lisa McGee’s How To Get To Heaven From Belfast has been commissioned for Netflix from Hat Trick Productions, having moved from Channel 4 to the streamer. |
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Adaptation of Marian Keyes’ Grown Ups among new Netflix commissions |
| 19 Mar 2024 | Netflix has announced several new commissions, including a series adaptation of Marian Keyes’ novel Grown Ups, Jamie Dornan-led series The Undertow, and House of Guinness from Peaky Blinders showrunner Steven Knight. |
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Thaddea Graham & Eve Hewson join cast of untitled Noah Baumbach film |
| 19 Mar 2024 | Thaddea Graham and Eve Hewson have been announced among the actors joining George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern and more in the next Noah Baumback film. |
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World Breaker starring Luke Evans and Milla Jovovich filming in Northern Ireland |
| 19 Mar 2024 | Sci-fi film World Breaker, produced by Martin Brennan and directed by Brad Anderson, has begun filming in Northern Ireland. |
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XYZ Films release official trailer for All You Need is Death |
| 19 Mar 2024 | XYZ Films have released the official trailer and poster for Paul Duane’s All You Need is Death. The film had its world premiere at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles last year, followed by an Irish premiere at Cork International Film Festival 2023. |
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Lee Cronin signs first-look deal with New Line Cinema |
| 14 Mar 2024 | Writer/Director Lee Cronin (Evil Dead Rise, The Hole In The Ground) signs first-look deal with New Line Cinema, with producers John Keville and Macdara Kelleher under new production company Doppelgängers. |
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Disco Pigs to Big Things: A Cillian Murphy Career Retrospective |
| 13 Mar 2024 | IFTN looks back at Cillian Murphy’s career and the films he made along the way to becoming the first Irish-born performer to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. |
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Bride! starring Jessie Buckley to release in October 2025 |
| 13 Mar 2024 | Warner Brothers have pushed The Batman Part II, understood to star Barry Keoghan, to a 2026 release. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s remake of The Bride of Frankenstein starring Jessie Buckley will take its place on October 3rd, 2025. |
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Deadline approaching for Screen Ireland’s Frameworks scheme |
| 13 Mar 2024 | The deadline for 2024’s Frameworks short film scheme is this Friday, March 15th. |
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Official trailer released for ShinAwil-produced VR series The Faceless Lady |
| 11 Mar 2024 | The Faceless Lady is a VR horror series from ShinAwil, Meta, Crypt TV, and directed by Eli Roth. The upcoming series was shot in Ireland. |
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Applications open for Storyland 2024 |
| 11 Mar 2024 | Applications are now open for the 2024 round of the award-winning short drama series Storyland, supported by RTÉ and Screen Ireland. |
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Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy wins Best Actor Oscar, Element Pictures' Poor Things wins four awards |
| 11 Mar 2024 | Cillian Murphy has become the first Irish-born actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role as the titular character in Oppenheimer. Element Pictures’ Poor Things has received four Academy Awards including Best Actress for Emma Stone. |
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Emer Durcan and Jason Branagan named among 2024 JETS Winners |
| 08 Mar 2024 | Producer Emer Durcan and Director Jason Branagan were among the 2024 JETS winners for their project The Others. |
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Netflix release final trailer for 3 Body Problem starring Liam Cunningham and Benedict Wong |
| 07 Mar 2024 | Netflix has launched the final trailer for upcoming series 3 Body Problem, ahead of its world premiere at the SXSW Film & Television festival in Austin this Friday. |
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UK government reveal 40% Independent Film Tax Credit (IFTC) |
| 06 Mar 2024 | The UK government has unveiled details of a new tax credit for supporting UK independent films as part of UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget. Following this, Sky Group CEO Dana Strong announced that Jurassic World 4 will shoot in the UK. |
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“Working on a Ridley set is the best film school you could ever attend”, Director Táine King discusses The Wilde Sisters, working with Ridley Scott |
| 06 Mar 2024 | We spoke with director-producer Táine King to discuss her latest short film The Wilde Sisters, as well as her background in art direction. |
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EFP Producers on the Move 2024: Screen Ireland Call for Applications |
| 06 Mar 2024 | Screen Ireland is now seeking applications from producers who wish to be considered as the Irish selection for the 2024 EFP Producers on the Move programme, held each year at the Cannes Film Festival. |
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