The character of Chief Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney) first appeared as a background player in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" pilot "Encounter at Farpoint" in 1987. Chief O'Brien was initially just an ancillary character who operated the transporters on the Enterprise-d, and who only passingly interacted with the show's main cast. As the series progressed, however, O'Brien's role became larger and larger, and he came to have his own backstories and relationship. O'Brien would eventually marry Keiko (Rosalind Chao) and have a daughter, and eventually reveal that he's suffering from some long-held war trauma. Ultimately, O'Brien appeared in 52 episodes of "Next Generation" before exiting in the show's sixth season.
The reason O'Brien left was because he had accepted a promotion. He was to become the chief engineer on a rundown Cardassian space station now designated Deep Space Nine by the Federation. Meaney, then, had signed on to be one of...
The reason O'Brien left was because he had accepted a promotion. He was to become the chief engineer on a rundown Cardassian space station now designated Deep Space Nine by the Federation. Meaney, then, had signed on to be one of...
- 12/27/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Dystopian novel Prophet Song by Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize.
Set in Dublin, the story follows a family dealing with a terrifying new world in which democracy falls away.
The prestigious book award has previously been won by novels including The English Patient, The Remains Of The Day, Life Of Pi, The White Tiger, and Wolf Hall, all of which have been adapted into successful movies or TV series.
Chair of Judges, Esi Edugyan, described Prophet Song, which was the bookmakers’ favorite to win the prize, as “soul-shattering and true,” adding that readers “will not soon forget its warnings.”
The subject matter rings especially true given the scenes of violence that have erupted in Dublin in recent days. Ireland’s police chief Drew Harris this weekend blamed the rioting and violence, which saw multiple people stabbed, on a “lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology...
Set in Dublin, the story follows a family dealing with a terrifying new world in which democracy falls away.
The prestigious book award has previously been won by novels including The English Patient, The Remains Of The Day, Life Of Pi, The White Tiger, and Wolf Hall, all of which have been adapted into successful movies or TV series.
Chair of Judges, Esi Edugyan, described Prophet Song, which was the bookmakers’ favorite to win the prize, as “soul-shattering and true,” adding that readers “will not soon forget its warnings.”
The subject matter rings especially true given the scenes of violence that have erupted in Dublin in recent days. Ireland’s police chief Drew Harris this weekend blamed the rioting and violence, which saw multiple people stabbed, on a “lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology...
- 11/27/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
London, Nov 27 (Ians) ‘Prophet Song’ by the celebrated Irish novelist Paul Lynch has been named the winner of the Booker Prize 2023, according to an official announcement by the organisers of the prestigious literary award.
The author received 50,000 pounds and was presented with his trophy by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, the 2022 winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London, on Sunday, November 26.
Nairobi-born accountant-turned-debutant novelist Chetna Maroo, who is of Indian origin and a resident of London, was one of the six writers shortlisted for the prize, which, since 1969, has been awarded to the top writers of our times. Six of the awardees have been writers of Indian descent.
The glitterting award event on Sunday was hosted by British journalist and writer Samira Ahmed and broadcast live as a special episode of BBC Radio 4 Front Row.
It was also livestreamed in an hour-long YouTube presentation, hosted by Jack Edwards...
The author received 50,000 pounds and was presented with his trophy by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, the 2022 winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London, on Sunday, November 26.
Nairobi-born accountant-turned-debutant novelist Chetna Maroo, who is of Indian origin and a resident of London, was one of the six writers shortlisted for the prize, which, since 1969, has been awarded to the top writers of our times. Six of the awardees have been writers of Indian descent.
The glitterting award event on Sunday was hosted by British journalist and writer Samira Ahmed and broadcast live as a special episode of BBC Radio 4 Front Row.
It was also livestreamed in an hour-long YouTube presentation, hosted by Jack Edwards...
- 11/27/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
London, Nov 27 (Ians) ‘Prophet Song’ by the celebrated Irish novelist Paul Lynch has been named the winner of the Booker Prize 2023, according to an official announcement by the organisers of the prestigious literary award.
The author received 50,000 pounds and was presented with his trophy by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, the 2022 winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London, on Sunday, November 26.
Nairobi-born accountant-turned-debutant novelist Chetna Maroo, who is of Indian origin and a resident of London, was one of the six writers shortlisted for the prize, which, since 1969, has been awarded to the top writers of our times. Six of the awardees have been writers of Indian descent.
The glitterting award event on Sunday was hosted by British journalist and writer Samira Ahmed and broadcast live as a special episode of BBC Radio 4 Front Row.
It was also livestreamed in an hour-long YouTube presentation, hosted by Jack Edwards...
The author received 50,000 pounds and was presented with his trophy by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, the 2022 winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London, on Sunday, November 26.
Nairobi-born accountant-turned-debutant novelist Chetna Maroo, who is of Indian origin and a resident of London, was one of the six writers shortlisted for the prize, which, since 1969, has been awarded to the top writers of our times. Six of the awardees have been writers of Indian descent.
The glitterting award event on Sunday was hosted by British journalist and writer Samira Ahmed and broadcast live as a special episode of BBC Radio 4 Front Row.
It was also livestreamed in an hour-long YouTube presentation, hosted by Jack Edwards...
- 11/27/2023
- by Agency News Desk
Lucca Comics & Games 2023 Fest Offers Something for Every Fan, From ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘Hunger Games’
After two pandemic years and a successful 2022 edition back in full swing, Lucca Comics & Games — Europe’s biggest geek meet, second in size globally only to Tokyo’s Comiket — is set to unspool again in the picturesque Tuscan town from Nov. 1-5. In the turbulent times of the SAG-AFTRA strike, the gathering will offer its 80,000 daily visitors a slew of movies, series, comics, games, video games, concerts and live events.
“We’re the only festival in the world having a red carpet and a large cinema-focused component that is not primarily a film festival. Lucca is a great hybrid event,” Lucca chief Emanuele Vietina tells Variety ahead of the event’s launch.
The big star of Day One will be Michel Gondry, who will attend the opening ceremony and host a masterclass covering his body of work, including his latest, “The Book of Solutions.”
Giovanni Cova, head of the entertainment...
“We’re the only festival in the world having a red carpet and a large cinema-focused component that is not primarily a film festival. Lucca is a great hybrid event,” Lucca chief Emanuele Vietina tells Variety ahead of the event’s launch.
The big star of Day One will be Michel Gondry, who will attend the opening ceremony and host a masterclass covering his body of work, including his latest, “The Book of Solutions.”
Giovanni Cova, head of the entertainment...
- 10/30/2023
- by Davide Abbatescianni
- Variety Film + TV
The event showcases UK titles and UK sales companies to mainly European buyers.
Animated features Kensuke’s Kingdom, an adaptation of a Michael Morpurgo novel directed by Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry.and sold by Bankside, and Tim Harper’s Ozi - Voice Of The Forest, about an orphan orangutang, that is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and sold by Gfm, are among the high-profile projects that will screen to distributors at this year’s London Screenings.
The three-day event will take place at Picturehouse Central in Piccadilly Circus from June 19 - 21 2023,
UK and international sales companies will be...
Animated features Kensuke’s Kingdom, an adaptation of a Michael Morpurgo novel directed by Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry.and sold by Bankside, and Tim Harper’s Ozi - Voice Of The Forest, about an orphan orangutang, that is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and sold by Gfm, are among the high-profile projects that will screen to distributors at this year’s London Screenings.
The three-day event will take place at Picturehouse Central in Piccadilly Circus from June 19 - 21 2023,
UK and international sales companies will be...
- 6/8/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
’The Martini Shot’, starring Matthew Modine, John Cleese and Derek Jacobi, will also world premiere.
The Galway Film Fleadh has lined up a number of world premieres of Irish films for this year’s festival, which runs from July 11-16, including Lisa Mulcahy’s Lies We Tell, George Kane’s Apocalypse Clown and The Martini Shot, starring Matthew Modine, John Cleese and Derek Jacobi.
Lies We Tell is the story of an heiress who is forced to embrace her family’s dark legacy, starring Agnes O’Casey, David Wilmot, Holly Sturton and Chris Walley. Produced by Blue Ink Films and backed by Screen Ireland,...
The Galway Film Fleadh has lined up a number of world premieres of Irish films for this year’s festival, which runs from July 11-16, including Lisa Mulcahy’s Lies We Tell, George Kane’s Apocalypse Clown and The Martini Shot, starring Matthew Modine, John Cleese and Derek Jacobi.
Lies We Tell is the story of an heiress who is forced to embrace her family’s dark legacy, starring Agnes O’Casey, David Wilmot, Holly Sturton and Chris Walley. Produced by Blue Ink Films and backed by Screen Ireland,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Behind some bins – big wheelie ones down an alley on Dublin’s Northside – a man and a woman, both oldish, are coupling frantically. Their al fresco pleasure is interrupted when they are spotted by the man’s daughter, who’s just come out of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
“It’s not what it looks like, Shiv,” explains her flustered father, as he makes himself decent while the woman, short and of Asian heritage, with cropped silver hair, yanks up her tights.
“It looks like an old Irish man f***in’ a woman behind some bins,” she says.
This delicious scene is from The Dry, a daffy eight-part tragicomedy previously on Britbox, now coming to Itvx. The old man is played, with all his baffled hangdog charm, by Ciarán Hinds, who is 70. The woman behind the bins with him – and here’s the complicated surprise – is played by none other than Hinds’s French-Vietnamese wife,...
“It’s not what it looks like, Shiv,” explains her flustered father, as he makes himself decent while the woman, short and of Asian heritage, with cropped silver hair, yanks up her tights.
“It looks like an old Irish man f***in’ a woman behind some bins,” she says.
This delicious scene is from The Dry, a daffy eight-part tragicomedy previously on Britbox, now coming to Itvx. The old man is played, with all his baffled hangdog charm, by Ciarán Hinds, who is 70. The woman behind the bins with him – and here’s the complicated surprise – is played by none other than Hinds’s French-Vietnamese wife,...
- 3/18/2023
- by Jasper Rees
- The Independent - TV
Italian animation auteur Enzo D’Alò – whose globally known works include “The Blue Arrow,” “Lucky and Zorba,” “Momo” and “Opopomoz” – is back with Roddy Doyle adaptation “A Greyhound Of a Girl” launching from the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation Kplus section.
“Greyhound of a Girl” is about four generations of Irish women who embark on a car journey. One of them is dead, one of them is dying, one is driving, and the fourth is twelve-year old Dublin school girl Mary O’Hara. Mary shares her grandmother’s rebel spirit and love of cooking and is bravely dealing with the fact that her granny’s days are drawing to a close.
“The main theme of the book is delicate and difficult to describe, as it deals with death,” says D’Alò in his directors’ statement. “At first, the idea of tackling the notion of loss bewildered me a little,” he notes.
But...
“Greyhound of a Girl” is about four generations of Irish women who embark on a car journey. One of them is dead, one of them is dying, one is driving, and the fourth is twelve-year old Dublin school girl Mary O’Hara. Mary shares her grandmother’s rebel spirit and love of cooking and is bravely dealing with the fact that her granny’s days are drawing to a close.
“The main theme of the book is delicate and difficult to describe, as it deals with death,” says D’Alò in his directors’ statement. “At first, the idea of tackling the notion of loss bewildered me a little,” he notes.
But...
- 2/23/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
When the European Film Market kicks off in Berlin on Feb. 16, the three Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will share the stage as the EFM’s joint Countries in Focus. The showcase, which is supported by the Estonian Film Institute, the National Film Center of Latvia and the Lithuanian Film Center, will offer a range of events within the framework of the EFM, along with a selection of market premieres and screenings of Baltic films already making waves on the festival circuit. Twelve up-and-coming Baltic producers will also be presented to the international industry during a happy hour on Feb. 17 in the Gropius Bas.
Here’s a selection of Baltic buzz titles that the region’s top producers will be taking to Berlin:
Last Sentinel
Director: Tanel Toom
Producers: Ben Pullen, Ivo Felt, Jörg Bundschuh, Pippa Cross, Matthew James Wilkinson
Kate Bosworth stars in this sci-fi thriller from...
Here’s a selection of Baltic buzz titles that the region’s top producers will be taking to Berlin:
Last Sentinel
Director: Tanel Toom
Producers: Ben Pullen, Ivo Felt, Jörg Bundschuh, Pippa Cross, Matthew James Wilkinson
Kate Bosworth stars in this sci-fi thriller from...
- 2/17/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Steve Hudson wrote & directs; ‘Amazing Maurice’ director Toby Genkel co-directs.
Asa Butterfield and Joel Fry will lead the voice cast of Stitch Head, an animated feature co-production from Gfm Animation, Gringo Films, Wild Bunch and Fabrique d’Images.
The film is currently in pre-production and will begin CG animation soon; Gfm Animation will launch worldwide sales on the title at this week’s European Film Market.
Stitch Head is based on the first book in the series of the same name by Guy Bass, first published in 2011. It tells the story of Stitch Head, a small creature awoken to almost-Life by...
Asa Butterfield and Joel Fry will lead the voice cast of Stitch Head, an animated feature co-production from Gfm Animation, Gringo Films, Wild Bunch and Fabrique d’Images.
The film is currently in pre-production and will begin CG animation soon; Gfm Animation will launch worldwide sales on the title at this week’s European Film Market.
Stitch Head is based on the first book in the series of the same name by Guy Bass, first published in 2011. It tells the story of Stitch Head, a small creature awoken to almost-Life by...
- 2/13/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Figure is below record high of €500 million achieved after lockdowns eased in 2021.
Production spend in Ireland across feature films, TV and animation reached €361m in 2022, down on 2021’s record year, but an increase on a pre-pandemic 2019.
Although a fall from the record high of €500m in 2021, this has been deemed exceptional due to the increased level of activity taking place following the Covid-related production shutdowns.
Production investment in Ireland has grown at a steady level over recent years and 2022’s €361m is an increase of €4m on 2019.
Universal Pictures’ Cocaine Bear, Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla and Bron Studios’ and Headline Pictures’ crime series Kin,...
Production spend in Ireland across feature films, TV and animation reached €361m in 2022, down on 2021’s record year, but an increase on a pre-pandemic 2019.
Although a fall from the record high of €500m in 2021, this has been deemed exceptional due to the increased level of activity taking place following the Covid-related production shutdowns.
Production investment in Ireland has grown at a steady level over recent years and 2022’s €361m is an increase of €4m on 2019.
Universal Pictures’ Cocaine Bear, Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla and Bron Studios’ and Headline Pictures’ crime series Kin,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Bill Nighy (Living) and Jeremy Swift (Ted Lasso) have signed on to join the voice cast of CG animated family comedy 10 Lives.
The pair will join already-announced cast members Mo Gilligan (That’s My Jam), Simone Ashley (Bridgerton), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Girls), and musician Zayn Malik.
Nighy, who picked up an Oscar nom this week for his leading role in the Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted Living, will voice the character of Professor Craven, while Swift will lend his voice to a wise-cracking dog called Happy.
The pic tells the story of Beckett, a pampered and selfish cat who has taken the lives he’s been dealt for granted. After carelessly losing his ninth life, he begs to be given a second chance and an opportunity to show he can learn from his mistakes. Eventually, his wish is granted, but with certain stipulations.
The film is directed by...
The pair will join already-announced cast members Mo Gilligan (That’s My Jam), Simone Ashley (Bridgerton), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Girls), and musician Zayn Malik.
Nighy, who picked up an Oscar nom this week for his leading role in the Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted Living, will voice the character of Professor Craven, while Swift will lend his voice to a wise-cracking dog called Happy.
The pic tells the story of Beckett, a pampered and selfish cat who has taken the lives he’s been dealt for granted. After carelessly losing his ninth life, he begs to be given a second chance and an opportunity to show he can learn from his mistakes. Eventually, his wish is granted, but with certain stipulations.
The film is directed by...
- 1/26/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the final titles for its Generation sidebar of youth and children’s films, adding the animated feature Greyhound of a Girl, which features the voices of Irish actors Brendan Gleeson and Sharon Horgan; the Ukrainian documentary We Will Not Fade Away on teenagers living in the war-torn Donbas region; and the highly-anticipated German drama Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before from director Sonja Heiss to its lineup.
Directed by Enzo d’Alò, Greyhound of a Girl is an adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s children’s book about a 12-year-old girl and her beloved, joke-cracking grandmother who is nearing the end of her life. In addition to Gleeson and Horgan, the film’s voice talents include Mia O’Connor, Charlene McKenna, and Rosaleen Linehan. When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before, based on the autobiographical bestseller by actor and writer Joachim Meyerhoff...
Directed by Enzo d’Alò, Greyhound of a Girl is an adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s children’s book about a 12-year-old girl and her beloved, joke-cracking grandmother who is nearing the end of her life. In addition to Gleeson and Horgan, the film’s voice talents include Mia O’Connor, Charlene McKenna, and Rosaleen Linehan. When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before, based on the autobiographical bestseller by actor and writer Joachim Meyerhoff...
- 1/18/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Musician Zayn Malik, Simone Ashley (Bridgerton), and comedian Mo Gilligan are among the stacked cast who will lend their voices to the new CG-animated family comedy 10 Lives from director Chris Jenkins (Duck Duck Goose).
Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) and Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Girls) round out the cast.
The flick is the story of a pampered and selfish cat who takes for granted the lives he has been dealt. After carelessly losing his ninth life, he begs to be given a second chance, an opportunity to show he can learn from his mistakes. Eventually, his wish is granted but with hilarious stipulations. Gfm Animation will present first-look footage at AFM.
In the film, Gilligan voices Beckett, the pampered feline with a taste for fine food & lazy days who doesn’t know what’s about to hit him when he begs for a new set of lives. Ashley voices Rose, a...
Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) and Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Girls) round out the cast.
The flick is the story of a pampered and selfish cat who takes for granted the lives he has been dealt. After carelessly losing his ninth life, he begs to be given a second chance, an opportunity to show he can learn from his mistakes. Eventually, his wish is granted but with hilarious stipulations. Gfm Animation will present first-look footage at AFM.
In the film, Gilligan voices Beckett, the pampered feline with a taste for fine food & lazy days who doesn’t know what’s about to hit him when he begs for a new set of lives. Ashley voices Rose, a...
- 10/28/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
In football – and sport in general – there aren’t many who make their mark both as a player and a manager, but one man who did was Jack Charlton. Talented certainly, but it was the big man’s personality that really stood out, and this feature-length documentary captures it in some style.
Finding Jack Charlton is nothing short of a masterpiece, deftly balancing the film’s three main sub-plots: his glorious reign as manager of the Republic of Ireland, relationship with his brother, Bobby Charlton, and the unfortunate onset of dementia in his twilight years. The geniuses behind it all are ITV Sport reporter, Gabriel Clarke, who has also produced features on Joe Calzaghe and Brian Clough, and filmmaker Pete Thomas.
But this blows them all out of the water. The way each aspect of Charlton’s life is intertwined over and over again is filmmaking of the highest calibre.
Finding Jack Charlton is nothing short of a masterpiece, deftly balancing the film’s three main sub-plots: his glorious reign as manager of the Republic of Ireland, relationship with his brother, Bobby Charlton, and the unfortunate onset of dementia in his twilight years. The geniuses behind it all are ITV Sport reporter, Gabriel Clarke, who has also produced features on Joe Calzaghe and Brian Clough, and filmmaker Pete Thomas.
But this blows them all out of the water. The way each aspect of Charlton’s life is intertwined over and over again is filmmaking of the highest calibre.
- 6/21/2021
- by Dan Green
- The Cultural Post
Animated Roddy Doyle adaptation and a feelgood-feature starring Olivia Colman also secure backing.
Frank Berry’s Provision, starring Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor, has received a boost of €700,000 in the latest round of funding from Screen Ireland.
Dublin-based Subotica Entertainment is producing the drama, in which Wright plays an African woman fleeing persecution who ends up spending more than two years in Ireland’s asylum system, where she befriends a security guard, played by O’Connor.
Irish writer-director Berry’s previous feature was teenage prison drama Michael Inside, which won best film at the 2018 Irish Film and Television Awards and...
Frank Berry’s Provision, starring Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor, has received a boost of €700,000 in the latest round of funding from Screen Ireland.
Dublin-based Subotica Entertainment is producing the drama, in which Wright plays an African woman fleeing persecution who ends up spending more than two years in Ireland’s asylum system, where she befriends a security guard, played by O’Connor.
Irish writer-director Berry’s previous feature was teenage prison drama Michael Inside, which won best film at the 2018 Irish Film and Television Awards and...
- 3/24/2021
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Private St Patrick’s Day parties? The Cheltenham Festival behind closed doors? Surely there’s a movie in there somewhere. In the meantime, we thought we’d pay homage to Ireland’s cinematic contribution, an unsung hero of the entertainment world.
A is for Accents. Some have been entertaining, if a little dubious, over the years. Brad Pitt, the late Sean Connery, we’re looking at you…
B is for Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan. See what we did there?
C is for The Commitments. Starts with ‘T’, but Alan Parker‘s thoroughly enjoyable musical had to make an appearance somewhere, especially as it’s in the main pic above.
D is for Dublin. The Fair City has been the location for countless movies.
E is for Eejit. Possibly the most endearing insult going, and a word that’s a staple of many a film script.
F is for Folk music. Traditional...
A is for Accents. Some have been entertaining, if a little dubious, over the years. Brad Pitt, the late Sean Connery, we’re looking at you…
B is for Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan. See what we did there?
C is for The Commitments. Starts with ‘T’, but Alan Parker‘s thoroughly enjoyable musical had to make an appearance somewhere, especially as it’s in the main pic above.
D is for Dublin. The Fair City has been the location for countless movies.
E is for Eejit. Possibly the most endearing insult going, and a word that’s a staple of many a film script.
F is for Folk music. Traditional...
- 3/15/2021
- by Dan Green
- The Cultural Post
Martin Scorsese to present the best film award.
The Irish Film and Television Academy awards ceremony will take place online on October 18th with Martin Scorsese lined up to present the best film award.
Actress and comedian Deirdre O’Kane returns to host the awards and other guest presenters include Liam Neeson, Daisy Ridley, Ruth Negga, Pierce Brosnan and Caitriona Balfe.
Normal People lead actors Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones will reunite to present a showcase of this year’s Irish nominees. The president of Ireland will give a special presentation to the nominees on the night.
Films in the running...
The Irish Film and Television Academy awards ceremony will take place online on October 18th with Martin Scorsese lined up to present the best film award.
Actress and comedian Deirdre O’Kane returns to host the awards and other guest presenters include Liam Neeson, Daisy Ridley, Ruth Negga, Pierce Brosnan and Caitriona Balfe.
Normal People lead actors Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones will reunite to present a showcase of this year’s Irish nominees. The president of Ireland will give a special presentation to the nominees on the night.
Films in the running...
- 10/8/2020
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Anna Pokorska is named senior vice president of international sales.
UK-based Gfm Animation has appointed Anna Pokorska as senior vice president of international sales.
She took up the position on August 1, having previously handled international sales, co-production and licensing at Wizart Animation, the Russian outfit behind the Snow Queen and Sheep And Wolves franchises.
Pokorska has also acted as line producer on projects for European network Arte and worked with Russian production firm Amedia and Odessa International Film Festival.
In her new role, she will focus on sales and licensing activities across Gfm’s growing slate of animated features including Blazing Samurai,...
UK-based Gfm Animation has appointed Anna Pokorska as senior vice president of international sales.
She took up the position on August 1, having previously handled international sales, co-production and licensing at Wizart Animation, the Russian outfit behind the Snow Queen and Sheep And Wolves franchises.
Pokorska has also acted as line producer on projects for European network Arte and worked with Russian production firm Amedia and Odessa International Film Festival.
In her new role, she will focus on sales and licensing activities across Gfm’s growing slate of animated features including Blazing Samurai,...
- 8/7/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Alan Parker is not one of the name auteurs you learn about in Film History 101. That’s partly because he wasn’t known for doing one thing. The working-class Londoner made his mark in the 70s with commercials and television before breaking out with period child-gangster musical “Bugsy Malone” (1976), starring Jodie Foster. He died Friday morning at age 76.
True story “Midnight Express” (1978) took viewers on a harrowing descent into Turkish prison hell (starring Brad Davis as Billy Hayes), established Oscar nominee Parker as a taut manipulator of suspense, and won Oscars for screenwriter Oliver Stone and composer Giorgio Moroder. In drama “Birdy” (1984), Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage went on another unpredictable journey, from kids hanging in Philadelphia to soldiers fighting in Vietnam and finally, a grim hospital ward.
Always skilled at using music in his movies, from New York high-school musical “Fame” (1980) to Madonna vehicle “Evita” (1996), Parker became a stylish Hollywood director-for-hire.
True story “Midnight Express” (1978) took viewers on a harrowing descent into Turkish prison hell (starring Brad Davis as Billy Hayes), established Oscar nominee Parker as a taut manipulator of suspense, and won Oscars for screenwriter Oliver Stone and composer Giorgio Moroder. In drama “Birdy” (1984), Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage went on another unpredictable journey, from kids hanging in Philadelphia to soldiers fighting in Vietnam and finally, a grim hospital ward.
Always skilled at using music in his movies, from New York high-school musical “Fame” (1980) to Madonna vehicle “Evita” (1996), Parker became a stylish Hollywood director-for-hire.
- 7/31/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
British director Sir Alan Parker — whose vast filmography included gangster flicks, musical projects, crime thrillers and comedies — has died, Variety reports. He was 76.
The British Film Institute confirmed Parker’s death Friday morning. An exact cause wasn’t given, but he reportedly died after a long illness.
We're deeply saddened to learn that British filmmaker Alan Parker passed away this morning. Also a former Chairman of the BFI, his works as director include Midnight Express, The Commitments and Angela's Ashes https://t.co/wuBtJvHG1b pic.twitter.com/TDEqyxWgWb
— BFI (@BFI) July 31, 2020
Over three decades,...
The British Film Institute confirmed Parker’s death Friday morning. An exact cause wasn’t given, but he reportedly died after a long illness.
We're deeply saddened to learn that British filmmaker Alan Parker passed away this morning. Also a former Chairman of the BFI, his works as director include Midnight Express, The Commitments and Angela's Ashes https://t.co/wuBtJvHG1b pic.twitter.com/TDEqyxWgWb
— BFI (@BFI) July 31, 2020
Over three decades,...
- 7/31/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Best film nominees separated into 2019 and 2020 categories.
Tom Sullivan’s Great Famine drama Arracht and Paddy Breathnach’s homelessness story Rosie lead the film nominations at the 2020 Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards.
Arracht picked up 11 nominations from 15 feature film categories; with Rosie scoring nine.
Full IFTA 2020 nominations below
IFTA is finalising plans for a virtual 2020 awards ceremony in September; there will be no physical IFTA awards ceremony until April 2021. This year’s best film nominees have been split into two categories: five titles are nominated for best film 2019 and a further five have been nominated for best film...
Tom Sullivan’s Great Famine drama Arracht and Paddy Breathnach’s homelessness story Rosie lead the film nominations at the 2020 Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards.
Arracht picked up 11 nominations from 15 feature film categories; with Rosie scoring nine.
Full IFTA 2020 nominations below
IFTA is finalising plans for a virtual 2020 awards ceremony in September; there will be no physical IFTA awards ceremony until April 2021. This year’s best film nominees have been split into two categories: five titles are nominated for best film 2019 and a further five have been nominated for best film...
- 7/14/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has decided to cancel its 2021 awards, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The guild’s chair Lisa Holdsworth said the industries its members work within face an “existential threat,” and the guild needed to focus on protecting their rights.
The red-carpet, gala event was due to take place at London’s Royal College of Physicians in January in a special ceremony to mark their 60th anniversary.
Holdsworth said: “Our awards happen because of two things: the generous support of our loyal sponsors, and the same collective strength our union is founded on. Wggb members, all working writers, volunteer their time and energy to sit on juries, shortlist entries, and pull endless strings behind the scenes to make the event the glittering success it is every year.”
“This year, those same members are working tirelessly to protect writers’ rights in industries which are facing an unprecedented,...
The red-carpet, gala event was due to take place at London’s Royal College of Physicians in January in a special ceremony to mark their 60th anniversary.
Holdsworth said: “Our awards happen because of two things: the generous support of our loyal sponsors, and the same collective strength our union is founded on. Wggb members, all working writers, volunteer their time and energy to sit on juries, shortlist entries, and pull endless strings behind the scenes to make the event the glittering success it is every year.”
“This year, those same members are working tirelessly to protect writers’ rights in industries which are facing an unprecedented,...
- 5/20/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Helping you stay sane while staying safe… featuring Leonard Maltin, Dave Anthony, Miguel Arteta, John Landis, and Blaire Bercy from the Hollywood Food Coalition.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Plague (1979)
Target Earth (1954)
The Left Hand of God (1955)
A Lost Lady (1934)
Enough Said (2013)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Down to Earth (2001)
Down To Earth (1947)
The Commitments (1991)
Once (2007)
Election (1999)
About Schmidt (2002)
Sideways (2004)
Nebraska (2013)
The Man in the Moon (1991)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Casablanca (1942)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Night Walker (1964)
Chuck and Buck (2000)
Cedar Rapids (2011)
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Duck Butter (2018)
The Good Girl (2002)
The Big Heat (1953)
Human Desire (1954)
Slightly French (1949)
Week-End with Father (1951)
Experiment In Terror (1962)
They Shoot Horses Don’t They? (1969)
Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (1987)
Airport (1970)
Earthquake (1974)
Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
Pushover (1954)
Waves (2019)
Krisha (2015)
The Oblong Box (1969)
80,000 Suspects (1963)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
It Comes At Night (2017)
Children of Men (2006)
The Road (2009)
You Were Never Really Here...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Plague (1979)
Target Earth (1954)
The Left Hand of God (1955)
A Lost Lady (1934)
Enough Said (2013)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Down to Earth (2001)
Down To Earth (1947)
The Commitments (1991)
Once (2007)
Election (1999)
About Schmidt (2002)
Sideways (2004)
Nebraska (2013)
The Man in the Moon (1991)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Casablanca (1942)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Night Walker (1964)
Chuck and Buck (2000)
Cedar Rapids (2011)
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Duck Butter (2018)
The Good Girl (2002)
The Big Heat (1953)
Human Desire (1954)
Slightly French (1949)
Week-End with Father (1951)
Experiment In Terror (1962)
They Shoot Horses Don’t They? (1969)
Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (1987)
Airport (1970)
Earthquake (1974)
Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
Pushover (1954)
Waves (2019)
Krisha (2015)
The Oblong Box (1969)
80,000 Suspects (1963)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
It Comes At Night (2017)
Children of Men (2006)
The Road (2009)
You Were Never Really Here...
- 5/1/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
The Irish have put up with a lot of bullshit over the years. There’s England. The Troubles. The kittening of the Celtic Tiger. Enya. It’s not been an easy history. And black people, those living in mostly white countries anyway, they’ve put up with a whole bunch of bullshit, too. So if we pretend there’s an iota of depressing truth being bandied about when, in Roddy Doyle’s novel The Commitments, the irrepressible yet wee bit naïve protagonist Jimmy says that the Irish are the blacks of Europe,...
- 3/17/2020
- by David Marchese
- Rollingstone.com
Rosie Blue Fox Entertainment Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Paddy Breathnach Screenwriter: Roddy Doyle Cast: Sarah Greene, Molly McCann, Darragh McKenzie, Ruby Dunne, Ellie O’Halloran Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/27/19 Opens: July 19, 2019 Movies with Hollywood endings—to the extent that they still exist in our […]
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- 7/14/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The Newport Beach Film Festival, which kicks off April 24 and continues through April 27, will honor five talented artists who will be on hand to accept their awards. The event kicks off opening night with the West Coast premiere of Sundance indie hit “Luce,” a provocative racial drama from director Julius Onah starring Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth and rising star Kelvin Harrison Jr. The fest closes with the world premiere of “Part of Water,” a documentary about local lifeguard hero Ben Carlson who lost his life saving a drowning swimmer in 2014.
Between those bookends, Nbff screens the Ted Bundy crime drama “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” starring Zac Efron as the notorious serial killer; “Official Secrets,” Gavin Hood’s political thriller starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes; and the world premiere of “The Tony Alva Story,” which chronicles the life of the skateboarding legend.
The fest and Vans...
Between those bookends, Nbff screens the Ted Bundy crime drama “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” starring Zac Efron as the notorious serial killer; “Official Secrets,” Gavin Hood’s political thriller starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes; and the world premiere of “The Tony Alva Story,” which chronicles the life of the skateboarding legend.
The fest and Vans...
- 4/24/2019
- by Iain Blair
- Variety Film + TV
A family of six are forced on to the street after losing their rented house in a powerful and moving drama written by Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle has written a very moving and insightful film about homelessness. Paddy Breathnach directs and it is powerfully acted, especially by Sarah Greene in the leading role – which put me in mind, just a little, of Hayley Squires in Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake. The potency of the film lies in showing us that the “homeless” are not a caste or tribe whose condition has been ordained at birth, and their situation is not a cosmic punishment for laziness – they are people like everyone else whose situation has been created by economic forces.
Rosie (Greene) is a mother of four, her partner John Paul (Moe Dunford) works in a restaurant kitchen; they were living entirely happily and responsibly in a rented house in north Dublin,...
Roddy Doyle has written a very moving and insightful film about homelessness. Paddy Breathnach directs and it is powerfully acted, especially by Sarah Greene in the leading role – which put me in mind, just a little, of Hayley Squires in Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake. The potency of the film lies in showing us that the “homeless” are not a caste or tribe whose condition has been ordained at birth, and their situation is not a cosmic punishment for laziness – they are people like everyone else whose situation has been created by economic forces.
Rosie (Greene) is a mother of four, her partner John Paul (Moe Dunford) works in a restaurant kitchen; they were living entirely happily and responsibly in a rented house in north Dublin,...
- 3/7/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Variety has been given the exclusive first-look image for coming-of-age comedy “How to Build a Girl,” which Protagonist Pictures is selling at Afm.
The movie is directed by Coky Giedroyc, and stars “Lady Bird’s” Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, best known for “Game of Thrones,” Paddy Considine and Sarah Solemani. Adapted by Caitlin Moran from her semi-autobiographical novel, it is set in 1993 and centers on a “fat, bright, funny” working-class 16-year-old girl trying to break free from her provincial town in England, and reinvent herself as a “swashbuckling top-hat-wearing rock critic” in London.
Other cast in the film include Laurie Kynaston, Joanna Scanlan, Arinzé Kene, Frank Dillane, Tadhg Murphy and Ziggy Heath. Emma Thompson and Chris O’Dowd have cameo roles.
Produced by Alison Owen and Debra Hayward at Monumental Pictures, the pic was co-developed by Film4, which is co-financing with Tango. Lionsgate will distribute in the U.K.
Protagonist,...
The movie is directed by Coky Giedroyc, and stars “Lady Bird’s” Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, best known for “Game of Thrones,” Paddy Considine and Sarah Solemani. Adapted by Caitlin Moran from her semi-autobiographical novel, it is set in 1993 and centers on a “fat, bright, funny” working-class 16-year-old girl trying to break free from her provincial town in England, and reinvent herself as a “swashbuckling top-hat-wearing rock critic” in London.
Other cast in the film include Laurie Kynaston, Joanna Scanlan, Arinzé Kene, Frank Dillane, Tadhg Murphy and Ziggy Heath. Emma Thompson and Chris O’Dowd have cameo roles.
Produced by Alison Owen and Debra Hayward at Monumental Pictures, the pic was co-developed by Film4, which is co-financing with Tango. Lionsgate will distribute in the U.K.
Protagonist,...
- 10/31/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Various factors have set housing costs skyrocketing in many major cities worldwide, creating numerous problems — not least the increasing forcing-out of native residents in favor of better-heeled newcomers. Penned by Irish novelist Roddy Doyle, “Rosie” offers a microcosm of that crisis in Dublin, as a working-class family finds itself literally (if hopefully just temporarily) homeless.
The excruciating difficulties of being stuck in a car with four restless children all day, and no certainty of proper beds at night, are made all too vivid in this drama set over one 36-hour period. It’s not an experience many viewers will want to share, even vicariously, and the lack of star names will further limit commercial prospects. Still, Paddy Breathnach’s film is an admirable distillation of a jam happening to more and more people who never imagined being in such straits — and who, until recently, would have scarcely been at risk of it.
The excruciating difficulties of being stuck in a car with four restless children all day, and no certainty of proper beds at night, are made all too vivid in this drama set over one 36-hour period. It’s not an experience many viewers will want to share, even vicariously, and the lack of star names will further limit commercial prospects. Still, Paddy Breathnach’s film is an admirable distillation of a jam happening to more and more people who never imagined being in such straits — and who, until recently, would have scarcely been at risk of it.
- 9/27/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Anthony Buckner joins from Kaleidoscope.
Anthony Buckner has been appointed sales director at London-based sales and financing outfit Gfm Films.
Buckner will join the company on October 1, 2018 and will lead the company’s sales activities across its Gfm Films, Gfm Animation and Gfm Evolution slates.
He joins from Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, where he held the position of director of sales, and has also had roles at Magnolia Pictures, the Solution and Icon Entertainment International.
Buckner has also worked as an executive producer on Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus and Julie Taymor’s The Tempest and was an associate producer on David Blair...
Anthony Buckner has been appointed sales director at London-based sales and financing outfit Gfm Films.
Buckner will join the company on October 1, 2018 and will lead the company’s sales activities across its Gfm Films, Gfm Animation and Gfm Evolution slates.
He joins from Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, where he held the position of director of sales, and has also had roles at Magnolia Pictures, the Solution and Icon Entertainment International.
Buckner has also worked as an executive producer on Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus and Julie Taymor’s The Tempest and was an associate producer on David Blair...
- 9/27/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
UK animation outfit strikes two-picture deal.
London-based production and sales outfit Gfm Animation has unveiled two new projects on the eve of Toronto.
A Greyhound Of A Girl is based on the novel by Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle. It will be directed by Italian director Enzo D’Alo (Pinocchio) and is produced by Paul Thiltges Distributions, in association with the Luxembourg Film Fund, Aliante and The Illuminated Film Company. The ghost story follows four generations of women travelling on a midnight car journey.
Production on this animated feature film will commence in Q2 2019 after eight months of storyboarding and character designs.
London-based production and sales outfit Gfm Animation has unveiled two new projects on the eve of Toronto.
A Greyhound Of A Girl is based on the novel by Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle. It will be directed by Italian director Enzo D’Alo (Pinocchio) and is produced by Paul Thiltges Distributions, in association with the Luxembourg Film Fund, Aliante and The Illuminated Film Company. The ghost story follows four generations of women travelling on a midnight car journey.
Production on this animated feature film will commence in Q2 2019 after eight months of storyboarding and character designs.
- 9/4/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Paddy Breathnach directs drama set for Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema strand.
Protagonist Pictures has bolstered its sales slate ahead of Tiff with the acquisition of Rosie, the Irish drama from director Paddy Breathnach (Viva) and Element Pictures.
The film will have its premiere in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section. It stars Tony Award-nominee Sarah Greene (Burnt) as a mother trying to protect her family after her landlord sells their rented home, leaving them homeless.
Moe Dunford (Vikings) plays her partner, with newcomers Ellie O’Halloran, Ruby Dunne, Darragh McKenzie and Molly McCann featuring as their children.
Protagonist has taken world sales rights,...
Protagonist Pictures has bolstered its sales slate ahead of Tiff with the acquisition of Rosie, the Irish drama from director Paddy Breathnach (Viva) and Element Pictures.
The film will have its premiere in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section. It stars Tony Award-nominee Sarah Greene (Burnt) as a mother trying to protect her family after her landlord sells their rented home, leaving them homeless.
Moe Dunford (Vikings) plays her partner, with newcomers Ellie O’Halloran, Ruby Dunne, Darragh McKenzie and Molly McCann featuring as their children.
Protagonist has taken world sales rights,...
- 8/23/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Anna Ferguson will take charge of a slate including ‘Ripper Street’.
Irish production company Element Pictures has hired Anna Ferguson in the new role of head of TV drama, starting this autumn.
Ferguson joins Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s company from Sky, where she was executive producer of Delicious, Tin Star and A Discovery Of Witches.
She will take charge of a slate which has previously included Ripper Street, the gangster drama produced with Tiger Aspect and Lookout Point for the BBC and Amazon, and has forthcoming BBC / TNT co-production The Dublin Murders with Euston Films and Veritas.
Ferguson...
Irish production company Element Pictures has hired Anna Ferguson in the new role of head of TV drama, starting this autumn.
Ferguson joins Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s company from Sky, where she was executive producer of Delicious, Tin Star and A Discovery Of Witches.
She will take charge of a slate which has previously included Ripper Street, the gangster drama produced with Tiger Aspect and Lookout Point for the BBC and Amazon, and has forthcoming BBC / TNT co-production The Dublin Murders with Euston Films and Veritas.
Ferguson...
- 8/1/2018
- by Alex Farber Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
His fans include Donna Tartt and Roddy Doyle; Andrew Haigh has adapted his third novel, Lean on Pete, into a film. So why does Vlautin still struggle with self-belief?
For Willy Vlautin, a book tour is not just about books. Yes, his fifth novel, Don’t Skip Out on Me, the melancholy tale of a young, half-Paiute wannabe prizefighter, was published recently. It’s written in the sort of scorched, bare-bones prose, stripped of metaphors and similes, that has won him fans such as Roddy Doyle, Donna Tartt and Colm Tóibín. But there are also gigs to play – Vlautin, who is 51, was the frontman of the twangy alt-country outfit Richmond Fontaine, which he founded in his mid-20s shortly after moving from Reno, Nevada, where he grew up, to Portland, Oregon.
He disbanded the group in 2014 after 20 years, keen to part on good terms rather than, as he puts it,...
For Willy Vlautin, a book tour is not just about books. Yes, his fifth novel, Don’t Skip Out on Me, the melancholy tale of a young, half-Paiute wannabe prizefighter, was published recently. It’s written in the sort of scorched, bare-bones prose, stripped of metaphors and similes, that has won him fans such as Roddy Doyle, Donna Tartt and Colm Tóibín. But there are also gigs to play – Vlautin, who is 51, was the frontman of the twangy alt-country outfit Richmond Fontaine, which he founded in his mid-20s shortly after moving from Reno, Nevada, where he grew up, to Portland, Oregon.
He disbanded the group in 2014 after 20 years, keen to part on good terms rather than, as he puts it,...
- 4/23/2018
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Emma Norton has been promoted to development producer.
Element pictures is set to expand on the company’s development and production activities after making a number of new and in-house appointments.
The Irish company behind the Oscar-nominated Room and Yorgos Lanthimos’ forthcoming The Favourite has made a number of key promotions.
Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures made the announcement as it prepares to go into production with its latest project, Rosie, directed by Paddy Breathnach (Viva) from a script by Roddy Doyle (The Snapper).
Emma Norton has been promoted to development producer at Element, after previously working...
Element pictures is set to expand on the company’s development and production activities after making a number of new and in-house appointments.
The Irish company behind the Oscar-nominated Room and Yorgos Lanthimos’ forthcoming The Favourite has made a number of key promotions.
Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures made the announcement as it prepares to go into production with its latest project, Rosie, directed by Paddy Breathnach (Viva) from a script by Roddy Doyle (The Snapper).
Emma Norton has been promoted to development producer at Element, after previously working...
- 3/26/2018
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Other recipients include Rosie, written by Roddy Doyle and Pat Collins’ Folkland.
Source: Wiki Commons
George Rr Martin
The Irish Film Board has backed a major new international production from the creator of Game of Thrones in its latest round of funding decisions.
Filming is due to get underway this spring on Nightflyers, the first production based out of Limerick’s newly built Troy Studios. The forthcoming production was granted €850,000 by the Ifb - the single biggest award in its latest round of funding decisions. New features by Cathy Brady, Brian Kirk and Paddy Breathnach are also being supported.
Sets are currently being constructed in Troy’s vast studio space based in Ireland’s mid-west, with filming due to begin in the coming weeks. Originally commissioned as a pilot, Syfy confirmed it was going to series after creator George Rr Martin revealed the plans on his blog. Martin and Jeff Buhler are credited as co-writers, with Mike Cahill (Another...
Source: Wiki Commons
George Rr Martin
The Irish Film Board has backed a major new international production from the creator of Game of Thrones in its latest round of funding decisions.
Filming is due to get underway this spring on Nightflyers, the first production based out of Limerick’s newly built Troy Studios. The forthcoming production was granted €850,000 by the Ifb - the single biggest award in its latest round of funding decisions. New features by Cathy Brady, Brian Kirk and Paddy Breathnach are also being supported.
Sets are currently being constructed in Troy’s vast studio space based in Ireland’s mid-west, with filming due to begin in the coming weeks. Originally commissioned as a pilot, Syfy confirmed it was going to series after creator George Rr Martin revealed the plans on his blog. Martin and Jeff Buhler are credited as co-writers, with Mike Cahill (Another...
- 1/26/2018
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Other recipients include Rosie, written by Roddy Doyle and Pat Collins’ Folkland.
Source: Wiki Commons
George Rr Martin
The Irish Film Board has backed a major new international production from the creator of Game of Thrones in its latest round of funding decisions.
Filming is due to get underway this spring on Nightflyers, the first production based out of Limerick’s newly built Troy Studios. The forthcoming production was granted €850,000 by the Ifb - the single biggest award in its latest round of funding decisions. New features by Cathy Brady, Brian Kirk and Paddy Breathnach are also being supported.
Sets are currently being constructed in Troy’s vast studio space based in Ireland’s mid-west, with filming due to begin in the coming weeks. Originally commissioned as a pilot, Syfy confirmed it was going to series after creator George Rr Martin revealed the plans on his blog. Martin and Jeff Buhler are credited as co-writers, with Mike Cahill (Another...
Source: Wiki Commons
George Rr Martin
The Irish Film Board has backed a major new international production from the creator of Game of Thrones in its latest round of funding decisions.
Filming is due to get underway this spring on Nightflyers, the first production based out of Limerick’s newly built Troy Studios. The forthcoming production was granted €850,000 by the Ifb - the single biggest award in its latest round of funding decisions. New features by Cathy Brady, Brian Kirk and Paddy Breathnach are also being supported.
Sets are currently being constructed in Troy’s vast studio space based in Ireland’s mid-west, with filming due to begin in the coming weeks. Originally commissioned as a pilot, Syfy confirmed it was going to series after creator George Rr Martin revealed the plans on his blog. Martin and Jeff Buhler are credited as co-writers, with Mike Cahill (Another...
- 1/26/2018
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films’ Sundance comedy “Band Aid” hits theaters on Friday, a much-anticipated debut for one of the most original movies about music in years. Written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, who also plays one of the lead roles, “Band Aid” tells the story of a dysfunctional married couple whose shared love of music leads to an unconventional form of couple’s therapy when they form a band with their neighbor (Fred Armisen). The film is Lister-Jones’ feature directing debut.
Read More: ‘Band Aid’ Trailer: Zoe Lister-Jones and Adam Pally Start a Band to Save Their Failing Marriage — Watch
Because music documentaries and biopics about famous musicians often hog up all the attention, original movies that incorporate music can sometimes slip through the cracks. These films often feature fictional bands playing original music or popular music. (The 2007 film “Once” beat the odds by gaining mainstream exposure, thanks in part to an...
Read More: ‘Band Aid’ Trailer: Zoe Lister-Jones and Adam Pally Start a Band to Save Their Failing Marriage — Watch
Because music documentaries and biopics about famous musicians often hog up all the attention, original movies that incorporate music can sometimes slip through the cracks. These films often feature fictional bands playing original music or popular music. (The 2007 film “Once” beat the odds by gaining mainstream exposure, thanks in part to an...
- 6/1/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The star of The Journey reveals how his own involvement with Sinn Féin helped him understand the late Ira commander turned peacemaker
As a Dubliner who has lived in Los Angeles for three decades, Colm Meaney says he always keeps an eye out for Irish scripts – but he confesses to a slight feeling of dread when one lands on his doormat. Cliched characters, simplistic politics, shonky dialogue – he’s seen them all. The 63-year-old has been lucky with some – particularly the trilogy of Roddy Doyle adaptions that began with 1991’s The Commitments and won him a Golden Globe nomination for The Snapper two years later – and less blessed with others that have come his way. “Oh yes. Mentioning no names but … oh yeah.”
So when he first heard about the Northern Irish novelist Colin Bateman’s script for a drama about Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, with the latter role potentially his,...
As a Dubliner who has lived in Los Angeles for three decades, Colm Meaney says he always keeps an eye out for Irish scripts – but he confesses to a slight feeling of dread when one lands on his doormat. Cliched characters, simplistic politics, shonky dialogue – he’s seen them all. The 63-year-old has been lucky with some – particularly the trilogy of Roddy Doyle adaptions that began with 1991’s The Commitments and won him a Golden Globe nomination for The Snapper two years later – and less blessed with others that have come his way. “Oh yes. Mentioning no names but … oh yeah.”
So when he first heard about the Northern Irish novelist Colin Bateman’s script for a drama about Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, with the latter role potentially his,...
- 5/3/2017
- by Esther Addley
- The Guardian - Film News
Alan Parker: ‘The cast improvised like crazy, breaking the record for most swearwords used in a film’
I was offered a chance to film Les Misérables in the late 80s, but I chose The Commitments instead. After making several films in America, I had a yearning to do something closer to home and to my working-class roots. Dublin’s Northside, where Roddy Doyle’s novel was set, closely resembled the Islington of the 1960s where I grew up. Everyone I knew wanted to be in a band to escape the world we found ourselves in.
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I was offered a chance to film Les Misérables in the late 80s, but I chose The Commitments instead. After making several films in America, I had a yearning to do something closer to home and to my working-class roots. Dublin’s Northside, where Roddy Doyle’s novel was set, closely resembled the Islington of the 1960s where I grew up. Everyone I knew wanted to be in a band to escape the world we found ourselves in.
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- 9/20/2016
- by Interviews by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Director of The Queen, Philomena and the upcoming Lance Armstrong biopic to receive honour at BFI London Film Festival.
British director Stephen Frears is to receive a BFI Fellowship on Oct 18, ahead of the close of the 58th BFI London Film Festival.
The BFI Fellowship is awarded to individuals in recognition of their outstanding contribution to film or television and is the highest honour bestowed by the organisation.
BFI chairman Greg Dyke described Frears as one of the UK’s most important directors.
“Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen has produced a body of work which never fails to surprise – from sweeping costume drama to powerful social realism, his films strike a perfect balance between drama, humour and pathos helping to make them a hit with audiences and critics alike,” added Dyke.
Frears said he was “thrilled” to be receiving the honour. “I’ve spent much of my life in the cinema and quite a lot of it at...
British director Stephen Frears is to receive a BFI Fellowship on Oct 18, ahead of the close of the 58th BFI London Film Festival.
The BFI Fellowship is awarded to individuals in recognition of their outstanding contribution to film or television and is the highest honour bestowed by the organisation.
BFI chairman Greg Dyke described Frears as one of the UK’s most important directors.
“Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen has produced a body of work which never fails to surprise – from sweeping costume drama to powerful social realism, his films strike a perfect balance between drama, humour and pathos helping to make them a hit with audiences and critics alike,” added Dyke.
Frears said he was “thrilled” to be receiving the honour. “I’ve spent much of my life in the cinema and quite a lot of it at...
- 10/7/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this year
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
- 11/23/2013
- by Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Tom Stoppard, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, William Boyd, Bill Bryson, Shami Chakrabarti, Sarah Churchwell, Antonia Fraser, Mark Haddon, Robert Harris, Max Hastings, Philip Hensher, Simon Hoggart, AM Homes, John Lanchester, Mark Lawson, Robert Macfarlane, Andrew Motion, Ian Rankin, Lionel Shriver, Helen Simpson, Colm Tóibín, Richard Ford, John Gray, David Kynaston, Penelope Lively, Pankaj Mishra, Blake Morrison, Susie Orbach
- The Guardian - Film News
Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 10 Oct 2013 - 03:27
Another 25 unsung greats come under the spotlight, as we provide our pick of the underappreciated films of 1993...
What a year 1993 was. It saw the release of Star Fox on the Super Nintendo. Bill Clinton became president. Season three of Deep Space Nine premiered on Us television. UK politician Douglas Hurd visited Argentina. Cyndi Lauper released her album Hat Full Of Stars.
Aside from those earth shattering events, we'll probably remember 1993, in cinema terms, as the year Jurassic Park dominated the box office like an angry Tyrannosaurus. A true phenomenon, its profits doubled those of the second most watched film in 1993 cinemas, Mrs Doubtfire, and almost three times as much as the movie below that - the Harrison Ford thriller, The Fugitive.
But as ever, there was so much more to the 1993 movie landscape than dinosaurs and Robin Williams dressed as an old woman.
Another 25 unsung greats come under the spotlight, as we provide our pick of the underappreciated films of 1993...
What a year 1993 was. It saw the release of Star Fox on the Super Nintendo. Bill Clinton became president. Season three of Deep Space Nine premiered on Us television. UK politician Douglas Hurd visited Argentina. Cyndi Lauper released her album Hat Full Of Stars.
Aside from those earth shattering events, we'll probably remember 1993, in cinema terms, as the year Jurassic Park dominated the box office like an angry Tyrannosaurus. A true phenomenon, its profits doubled those of the second most watched film in 1993 cinemas, Mrs Doubtfire, and almost three times as much as the movie below that - the Harrison Ford thriller, The Fugitive.
But as ever, there was so much more to the 1993 movie landscape than dinosaurs and Robin Williams dressed as an old woman.
- 10/9/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Life and work of Iain Banks to be honoured at 30th festival, with Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman also featuring in two-week event partnered by the Guardian
The life and works of the late Iain Banks will be celebrated by close friends including Ian Rankin and Val McDermid in a special event at this August's Edinburgh international book festival, for which the Guardian is media partner.
"Scotland and the world were rocked by his death last weekend," said Nick Barley, the festival director. "We'd been planning a celebration anyway as we're marking our 30th birthday, and his first novel, The Wasp Factory, was out in 1984. I spoke to him many times about what he'd like to do. He wanted to be there – sadly he can't be."
Instead, the event on the festival's closing Sunday will see Scottish authors including Rankin, McDermid and Ken MacLeod looking back over Banks's 29-year career.
The life and works of the late Iain Banks will be celebrated by close friends including Ian Rankin and Val McDermid in a special event at this August's Edinburgh international book festival, for which the Guardian is media partner.
"Scotland and the world were rocked by his death last weekend," said Nick Barley, the festival director. "We'd been planning a celebration anyway as we're marking our 30th birthday, and his first novel, The Wasp Factory, was out in 1984. I spoke to him many times about what he'd like to do. He wanted to be there – sadly he can't be."
Instead, the event on the festival's closing Sunday will see Scottish authors including Rankin, McDermid and Ken MacLeod looking back over Banks's 29-year career.
- 6/20/2013
- by Alison Flood
- The Guardian - Film News
Based on Roddy Doyle’s novel of the same name, The Commitments is a 1991 film that defied all expectations and has since been voted the best Irish film of all time. The film’s success is undoubtedly partially due to the casting process, with an emphasis placed on musical rather than acting ability; some of the original cast members still perform together globally in a soul revue now, which attests to their talent and chemistry together.
With a plot based around the formation and conflicts of an Irish soul band, music is obviously an essential part of the concept. However, Roddy Doyle has recently (and perhaps controversially) admitted that the reason it’s taken 25 years for the story to reach the stage is that he thought he didn’t like musicals. The essential thing to remember is that films and musicals are very different genres: each have their own fields of possibilities and limitations,...
With a plot based around the formation and conflicts of an Irish soul band, music is obviously an essential part of the concept. However, Roddy Doyle has recently (and perhaps controversially) admitted that the reason it’s taken 25 years for the story to reach the stage is that he thought he didn’t like musicals. The essential thing to remember is that films and musicals are very different genres: each have their own fields of possibilities and limitations,...
- 5/22/2013
- by Charlotte Tobitt
- Obsessed with Film
Writers often worry about the dangers of outside influence, but what about the non-literary inspirations they are far more comfortable admitting to? Andrew O'Hagan talks to six novelists about their passion for a second artform
The divine counsels decided, once upon a time, that influence is bad and that too much agency is the enemy of invention. Harold Bloom can't be blamed for that: he certainly pointed to the danse macabre of influence and anxiety, but to him the association was perfectly creative. Elsewhere, writers have always been blamed for being too much like other writers, or too much like themselves, and even now, in the crisis of late postmodernism, we find it hard to believe that writers might live happily in a state of influence and cross-reference. Yet anybody who knows anything about writers knows that they love their sweet influences.
What I've noticed, though, is that the influences...
The divine counsels decided, once upon a time, that influence is bad and that too much agency is the enemy of invention. Harold Bloom can't be blamed for that: he certainly pointed to the danse macabre of influence and anxiety, but to him the association was perfectly creative. Elsewhere, writers have always been blamed for being too much like other writers, or too much like themselves, and even now, in the crisis of late postmodernism, we find it hard to believe that writers might live happily in a state of influence and cross-reference. Yet anybody who knows anything about writers knows that they love their sweet influences.
What I've noticed, though, is that the influences...
- 4/27/2013
- by Andrew O'Hagan, Lavinia Greenlaw, John Lanchester, Alan Warner, Sarah Hall, Colm Tóibín
- The Guardian - Film News
Roddy Doyle says admiration for shows such as The Producers finally persuaded him to allow staging of bestselling novel
One very big reason why it has taken 25 years for The Commitments to hit the stage is because Roddy Doyle thought he did not like musicals. "I'd never been to one," the writer said, admitting that he had batted away about 20 requests to bring it to a live audience.
Doyle was in London to announce a West End production of what was both a bestselling book and, in 1991, a hugely successful and popular film directed by Alan Parker. It will begin previews in September at the Palace theatre, where Singin' in the Rain closes in June.
The Booker-prize-winning novelist said he'd had something of an epiphany when he started going to musicals once his children grew up.
"I think the first was The Producers. It was quite a revelation because the...
One very big reason why it has taken 25 years for The Commitments to hit the stage is because Roddy Doyle thought he did not like musicals. "I'd never been to one," the writer said, admitting that he had batted away about 20 requests to bring it to a live audience.
Doyle was in London to announce a West End production of what was both a bestselling book and, in 1991, a hugely successful and popular film directed by Alan Parker. It will begin previews in September at the Palace theatre, where Singin' in the Rain closes in June.
The Booker-prize-winning novelist said he'd had something of an epiphany when he started going to musicals once his children grew up.
"I think the first was The Producers. It was quite a revelation because the...
- 4/24/2013
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
London — London's West End is developing an Irish lilt.
The Tony Award-winning, Dublin-set musical "Once" is a hit, and on Tuesday producers announced that a long-awaited stage version of Irish soul saga "The Commitments" will open later this year.
Roddy Doyle's exuberant 1987 novel about a bunch of working-class Dubliners who form an unlikely soul band is considered a literary landmark, and was made into a successful 1991 movie. But a stage adaptation has been a long time coming.
Doyle, who has scripted the stage version, says it's partly because the runaway success of "The Commitments" made it "something of a monster" from which the needed a break.
It's also, he admits, partly because he never really liked musicals.
"In the house I live in, if `The Sound of Music' comes on, all the male members, including the dogs, stand up and walk out," he said. "And the female members stay and cry.
The Tony Award-winning, Dublin-set musical "Once" is a hit, and on Tuesday producers announced that a long-awaited stage version of Irish soul saga "The Commitments" will open later this year.
Roddy Doyle's exuberant 1987 novel about a bunch of working-class Dubliners who form an unlikely soul band is considered a literary landmark, and was made into a successful 1991 movie. But a stage adaptation has been a long time coming.
Doyle, who has scripted the stage version, says it's partly because the runaway success of "The Commitments" made it "something of a monster" from which the needed a break.
It's also, he admits, partly because he never really liked musicals.
"In the house I live in, if `The Sound of Music' comes on, all the male members, including the dogs, stand up and walk out," he said. "And the female members stay and cry.
- 4/23/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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