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Studiocanal announce Irish & UK acquisition of The Apprentice |
| 16 May 2024 | Studiocanal has today announced the acquisition for Ireland & the UK of The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi’s exploration of Donald Trump’s rise to power in 1980s America. The Apprentice will receive its world premiere in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. |
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Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother wraps filming |
| 16 May 2024 | Jim Jarmusch’s latest project Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, and Tom Waits, has wrapped filming. The film is a triptych with the ‘Mother’ section of the film set in Dublin. Blanchett was spotted filming in Stoneybatter earlier this year. |
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Wolfland, starring Pierce Brosnan, launching sales at the Marché du Film |
| 15 May 2024 | The Exchange is launching worldwide sales for Wolfland, a thriller starring Pierce Brosnan and directed by Sean Brosnan, at Cannes’ Marché du Film. |
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Audrey Diwan to direct adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait for Element Pictures |
| 15 May 2024 | Northern Irish writer Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait will be adapted into a film, marking the first Element Pictures-Wildside co-production. This follows news that Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley will star in a film adaptation of O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet. |
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MUBI acquires Ireland and UK rights to Bird, starring Barry Keoghan |
| 15 May 2024 | MUBI has acquired the Ireland/UK distribution rights to Andrea Arnold’s Bird, starring Barry Keoghan, with Volta Pictures distributing the film in Ireland. |
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First look at Giant, starring Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry |
| 15 May 2024 | A first look image of Pierce Brosnan as boxing trainer Brendan Ingle in Giant has been released. Production is currently taking place in Leeds, England. |
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Cannes 2024: Five Irish films to receive world premieres; Minister Martin to travel with Irish delegation to promote co-pro opportunities |
| 14 May 2024 | Five Irish films will receive their world premiere at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival, between May 14th – 25th, during a fortnight that also sees over 20 Irish projects selling at the festival’s marketplace and an Irish delegation of over 200 industry personnel travelling from Ireland. |
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Cinemagic Film Festival partner with aspiring youth filmmakers in Amman to film independent short, An Olive Branch |
| 13 May 2024 | Cinemagic Film Festival has just wrapped production on ‘An Olive Branch’ with youth participants in the Filmi Programme, in collaboration with filmmakers from Jordan. |
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Salt Films appoints Donal Geraghty as Head of Business Affairs |
| 13 May 2024 | Salt Films has announced the appointment of Donal Geraghty as Head of Business Affairs. Donal Geraghty has over three decades of experience in the film and television Industry. As financial controller and co-producer, he has worked on many international productions. |
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Anthony Boyle to star in Keeper Pictures’ Skintown |
| 13 May 2024 | Northern Irish actor Anthony Boyle is set to star in Skintown, produced by Keeper Pictures, and adapted from Northern Irish author Ciarán McMenamin’s novel of the same name. |
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IADT launches new Postgraduate Master of Arts in Media Narratives + Storytelling |
| 13 May 2024 | IADT have announced that they are now offering a new Postgraduate Master of Arts in Media Narratives + Storytelling from this September. |
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Top Boy, written by Ronan Bennett, wins BAFTA TV Award |
| 13 May 2024 | Top Boy, written by Northern Irish writer Ronan Bennett, won the BAFTA TV Award for Drama Series. The awards ceremony took place at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, May 12th. |
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Siobhan Cullen, Chris Walley, Paddy Breathnach and more discuss Bodkin |
| 09 May 2024 | We spoke with the cast, crew, and showrunners of Bodkin at the Netflix series’ Irish premiere at the Light House Cinema, Dublin. Bodkin is available to stream on Netflix from today, May 9th. |
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Wednesday season 2 begins production in Ireland, new series regular announced |
| 07 May 2024 | Today Netflix announced the start of production on Wednesday Season 2 in Ireland with several new cast members joining the series, including Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper, along with guest stars such as Christopher Lloyd and Haley Joel Osment. |
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Tilda Swinton joins Colin Farrell in The Ballad of a Small Player |
| 07 May 2024 | Tilda Swinton and Colin Farrell will co-star in The Ballad of a Small Player, an upcoming film from All Quiet on The Western Front director Edward Berger under his first-look film deal with Netflix. |
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Neil Jordan to direct adaptation of own novel The Well of Saint Nobody |
| 07 May 2024 | Oscar-winner Neil Jordan is set to direct an adaptation of his own novel, The Well of Saint Nobody, starring Jeremy Irons, Helena Bonham Carter, and Aidan Quinn. |
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Paul Rudd & Nick Jonas set to star in Power Ballad, directed by John Carney |
| 03 May 2024 | Filming is underway in Dublin on John Carney’s upcoming musical comedy, Power Ballad, starring Rudd and Jonas. |
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Director Simon Chambers discusses feature documentary Much Ado About Dying |
| 03 May 2024 | From director Simon Chambers and BAFTA-winning Irish producer David Rane (Young Plato), Much Ado About Dying is a poignant and endearing documentary about Simon’s eccentric “Uncle David” that goes on limited release in Ireland from May 10th. |
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Niamh Algar & Tom Hollander lead new thriller series Iris from Neil Cross |
| 02 May 2024 | Niamh Algar (Mary & George) and Tom Hollander (White Lotus) are leading a Sky-produced thriller series about a code-breaking genius from Neil Cross (Luther). |
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TG4 announce Tús & Céim Eile short film initiatives |
| 01 May 2024 | TG4 have announced two new short film initiatives following the success of Cine4, both of which are open for submissions until 3pm Monday 9th September 2024. |
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