| UTV Group Turnover Down 10% | |
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UTV has announced its financial development so far in 2009 which sees a group turnover down 10% at £54.5 million this year compared to last year's £60.9 million more |
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| IFTA Academy Puts Music Centre Stage | |
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The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has announced details for their inaugural IFTA Music Forum, focusing on Music for the Moving Image, which will take place in Dublin on 4 September 2009. Guests include Oscar winning composer Dario Marianelli (Atonement), Air Edel's Maggie Rodford and Irish director Kirsten Sheridan (August Rush). more |
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| Sheridan to Receive Dingle Gregory Peck Honour | |
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Irish writer/director/producer Jim Sheridan has been named the recipient of this year's Gregory Peck Award, an honour bestowed in recognition of Excellence in the Art of Film, at the 2009 Dingle Film Festival. more |
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| 'Game of Thrones' Adds Names to Cast | |
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HBO's 'Game of Thrones' pilot which is due to commence production at The Paint Hall, Belfast, in October has added more names to its growing cast list. more |
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- Pulse Recording:General Open Day - (Saturdays for 7 weeks) The Bil Keating Centre: Television Production, Direction and Presentation Course - Essential Legal Framework - Digital Content Distribution - Podcasting 101 - Podcasting 2 and Online Content - Writing Movies: Laurence Henson Two Day Screenwriting Masterclass - International Financing Forum (IFF) 2009, Canada more training information |
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- Funny People (Universal) - Mesrine: Public Enemy No (Momentum Pictures) - The Final Destination (Entertainment Film) - Broken Embraces (Eclipse) more distribution information |
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| RTÉ Diversity Greenlights Sideline's Choir Comp | |
| Sideline (The Model Agent, Hollywood Trials) are due to commence production on a new Irish language series for RTÉ One 'An Cor', a new Irish language singing competition that will be broadcast over four shows during Seachtain na Gaeilge March 2010. more | |
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| Singer and WB for 'Excalibur' Remake | |
| John Boorman's 1981 'Excalibur', a film that launched the careers of many actors including Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Ciaran Hinds, Helen Mirren and Patrick Stewart, is set for a remake by Warner Brothers and producer/director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, Superman Returns). more | |
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| 'Obama's Irish Roots' Documentary In Production | |
| Olympia Films' new two-part documentary , 'Obama's Irish Roots', currently being shot in Co. Offaly and Dublin seeks to trace President Barack Obama's ancestry along his maternal heritage, a journey of 5,000 miles from Offaly in 1682 to 1942 to the birth of Obama's mother in Kansas. more | |
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| 'Five Minutes of Heaven' US Screening in LA | |
| The award winning Irish feature film 'Five Minutes in Heaven', will be shown exclusively in west Los Angeles tomorrow (28.08.09) at Landmark's Nuart Theatre. more | |
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| CULA4 Joins Kids Zone on Chorus NTL Digital | |
| Chorus ntl yesterday announced that TG4's block of children's programming, CULA4, will broadcast as of 1 September as a separate channel in the kids zone on digital through Chorus ntl. more | |
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| 'The Tudors' Attracts 2.3 million BBC Audience | |
| The first episode of the third series of 'The Tudors', broadcast on BBC2 last Friday night, drew an average audience of 2.3 million over the 90-minute show which started at 9.00pm. This figure is almost 1 million more than the programme's usual audience average. more | |
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| Gallagher Crowned 'Lord of the Ring' | |
| Sean 'The Dragon' Gallagher has been crowned winner of 'Charity Lords of the Ring' in the climatic final part of the series which was broadcast on Saturday the 22nd of August. The Cavan businessman beat the favourite to win, showbiz reporter Paul Martin. more | |
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| First Yellow Fever Film Festival held in Belfast | |
| The first annual Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival was held last weekend at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast. Throughout two days audiences were invited to enjoy a large array of film screenings, workshops, Q&A sessions with filmmakers and other exclusive events more | |
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| New Kavaleer Short Animation in Production | |
| Kavaleer Productions' current project is a short animation entitled 'Hassan Everywhere' which explores the brief but passionate friendship of an Israeli writer, Dorit Rabinyan and a Palestinian artist, Hassan Hourani - both exiles during a freezing New York winter. more | |
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- Short Film News: 'Jesus of Limerick' wins Tuam Prize & Underground Fest Launched - Oscars Documentary Deadline 1 September - 'Rose of Tralee' Live from The Dome |
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