All articles by Ted Sheehy – Page 10
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Woods confirmed as Irish Film Board chief
The Irish Film Board has confirmed the appointment of Mark Woods as its new CEO, as predicted on ScreenDaily.com (July 25). According to a statement from the agency, Woods will take up the position at the beginning of October, succeeding Rod Stoneman who departs today after ten years at the ...
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Ireland's Breathnach cranks up comedy caper
Irish director Paddy Breathnach (Ailsa, I Went Down, Blow Dry) gets back behind the camera on 25 August on the caper comedy Man About Dog, set in the Irish greyhound racing milieu. The film will shoot for seven weeks on location in Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow and Belfast.Written by Pearse Elliott, ...
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UGC beefs up key Dublin multiplex
The Euros 13m redevelopment by UGC of its nine-screen Parnell Centre site in Dublin city centre will conclude at the end of November, making it Ireland's biggest cinema according to the company.The Dublin site recorded more than one million paid admissions last year and, according to UGC, "is already set ...
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Geraghty leaves Screen Producers Ireland
Tracy Geraghty has stepped down as director of Irish producers' association Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) as of August 1 after seven months in the job. According to sources it was a decision arrived at "mutually" with the board of SPI. The SPI board will consider the development along with other ...
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Irish viewers elect favourite films for broadcast
Irish terrestrial broadcaster RTE has launched an innovative, interactive scheme which allows its viewers to vote for and choose the film they want to watch each week. Called Cinepicks, the scheme sees viewers vote for one of two possible films. Viewers vote by calling one of two premium rate telephone ...
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Veronica Guerin gains ground in Ireland
Joel Schumacher's Veronica Guerin has crossed the Euros 2m mark in Ireland for distributor Buena Vista International.Ireland marks the first phase of BVI's international roll out for the film, which goes on to launch in the UK this weekend. Helped by poor weather, Veronica Guerin took an extraordinary Euros 99,000 ...
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Woods tipped to take Irish Film Board post
Mark Woods, an expatriate Irishman based for many years in Australia is being strongly tipped as the new CEO of the Irish Film Board following Rod Stoneman's departure in September. However, a spokesperson for the Irish Film Board has refused to give air to the unofficial news, which has had ...
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Irish government funds key arthouse venues
The Irish Minister for Arts John O'Donoghue has announced the first recipients of capital funding through the Cultural Cinema Consortium scheme to assist the development of specialist cinemas. Euros 750,000 each has been offered to Kino Cinema in Cork and Limerick Filmhouse in Limerick which allow both operators to develop ...
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Debut Irish features impress at Galway
The fifteenth Galway Film Fleadh (July 8-13) closed on a high over the weekend, with the universally shared view that it had been one of the best years for new Irish cinema at the event. Significantly, most of the new Irish feature films were made by debuting directors each of ...
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Schumacher's Veronica Guerin takes pole position
Joel Schumacher's Veronica Guerin began its worldwide roll out in Ireland over the weekend - and opened to exceptionally strong business.After a world premiere in Dublin on Tuesday night and a special preview screening at the Galway Film Fleadh, the story of the Irish investigative journalist took the number one ...
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Specialist distributor launches in Ireland
Tribal Films, a new US-Irish specialist distributor of art house and indie titles was launched by former Shooting Gallery exec Will Silke at the Galway Film Fleadh last week. Its first acquisition for the territory, the dialogue free Hungarian film Hukkle, was shown at the festival on Thursday. Hukkle is ...
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Ireland backs upcoming production outfits
The production outfit behind Spin The Bottle - the highly anticipated closing film of this months's Galway Film Fleadh (July 8-13) - has been named as one of four companies to receive backing from the Irish Film Board.Grand Pictures is one of the participant companies in the Film Board's second ...
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Bollywood reaches Ireland
Shooting has started in county Wicklow on Ayodhiya, Ireland's first Bollywood co-production. Having shot for five weeks in the southern province of Tamil Nadu in India, a 36 person cast and crew have travelled to Ireland for the final two weeks of principal photography.The story is a 'love divided' tale ...
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Sheridan sounds warning to Irish government
Jim Sheridan today gave the Irish government a bleak warning - retain the Section 481 tax incentive or 80% of Irish film industry activity will disappear and with it 80% of the direct employment it currently provides.He was launching a report commissioned by Screen Producers Ireland (formerly Film Makers Ireland) ...
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Galway festival confirms world premiere for Jordan's Intermission
Intermission, the second title from Neil Jordan and Steve Woolley's Company of Wolves production outfit is to have its world premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh on July 11. It's addition was welcomed by Fleadh programme director Sally Anne O'Reilly, "This is the kind of high octane, edgy drama that ...
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Ireland gears up for renewed production activity
A stagnant period of film production in Ireland comes to an end this week with the start of shoot on Pierce Brosnan's Laws Of Attraction, followed next week by Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur .Arthur, which has a budget of $85m, is the biggest production ever to come to Ireland, dwarfing ...
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Banff winner tipped for US theatrical run
A feature-length version of documentary Chavez - Inside the Coup, the critically acclaimed winner of the top award at this week's Banff television festival, is under negotiation for a US theatrical release says its producer, David Power of Ireland's Power Pictures. Speaking to Screen Daily, David Power said that theatrical ...
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Local debuts dominate Galway festival line-up
New Irish films from directors Shimmy Marcus, Karl Golden and Sean Walsh dominate Galway Film Fleadh's initial line-up for its fifteenth edition on July 8-13. These comprise the debut features, Headrush, with Wuzza Conlon, Laura Pyper, Steven Berkoff, and Huey Morgan directed by Shimmy Marcus; The Honeymooners with Jonathan Byrne ...
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Dead Bodies
Dir: Robert Quinn. Ireland. 2003. 85mins.Dead Bodies achieves most of what it hopes to be: a low-budget, jokey thriller peopled by plot-expedient characters who are too young to develop character or motivation. But the debut feature from director Robert Quinn, , the first film shot in Ireland on high-definition, lacks ...
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Rod Stoneman to step down as CEO of the Irish Film Board
Rod Stoneman, CEO of the Irish Film Board, is stepping down to take up the position of director at the newly-established Huston School of Film and Digital Media at the National University of Ireland Galway.The Huston School has been established by NUIG in tribute to John Huston and with the ...