All articles by Ted Sheehy – Page 8
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Irish box office shock: Starsky & Hutch vs The Passion
BVI's Starsky & Hutch squared up to Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ and took the round one opening weekend in cinemas in the Republic of Ireland.Given the reported demand for The Passion in the territory - Irish distribution company Eclipse Pictures, which is handling the local release of ...
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Irish production industry in low budget regime
For full Irish production listings, click HEREAdam And Paul, Man About Dog, Freeze Frame, Timbuktu, The Halo Effect, Cowboys And Angels, Headrush, Dead Meat, Bite, Starfish, Inside I'm Dancing, The Honeymooners, Jonjo Mickybo. It's a long list, a veritable catalogue of recently made Irish films, some of them just completed ...
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Irish producers body appoints new director
Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) has appointed Malcolm Byrne as its new director.Byrne is a law graduate and previously held the positions of Press and Research Officer at the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland. He has broad experience of working with member and voluntary-based organisations.He is a former vice president of ...
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Irish exhibitors clamour for Passion prints
Irish distribution company Eclipse Pictures, which is handling the Irish release of The Passion Of The Christ for Icon UK, has had to secure an additional 10 prints for the Irish release, such is the demand for the picture from exhibitors.Of the 60 prints now available, approximately 50 will play ...
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Catholics called on to denounce Gibson's Passion
Following a viewing on Monday of Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ, the Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Dr Yaakov Pearlman, has asked the majority Catholic Church to denounce the film as anti-Semitic.He is reported in the Irish press today as urging the Catholic Church to clarify its official position, ...
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Irish Censor issues statement on Gibson's Passion
The Irish Film Censor, John Kelleher, has taken the unusual step of issuing a press release which sets out the reasoning behind his granting of a 15PG certificate for Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ.The statement [see below] deals with the issue of the film's purported anti-semitism, and with ...
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Irish Film Institute announces honourees, travelling programme
The Irish Film Institute (IFI) has announced that the recipients of its 2004 awards for outstanding contribution to Irish film are Brendan McCaul, vice president and general manager of Buena Vista International, Ireland, and Rod Stoneman, director of the Huston School of Film and Digital Media and former chief executive ...
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Ireland bucks downward Euro admissions trend
Irish box office revenues continued to climb - up 4% to Euros 97.5m in 2003, while admissions bucked the downward European trend and rose by 1% to 17.4 million, according to year-end analysis of cinema-going in the Republic of Ireland from Carlton Screen Advertising.The population of the Republic of Ireland ...
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Northern Ireland Film Production Fund launched
The Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission (NIFTC) is inviting applications to its new Northern Ireland Film Production Fund.The NIFTC will invest between £150,000 and £600,000 up to a ceiling of 25% of the overall project costs in a live action or animated feature film or a live action or ...
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Timbuktu premiere to open Dublin festival
The Dublin International Film Festival is marrying strong local and international fare for its second edition with 97 features and numerous shorts being shown over ten days at three city centre cinemas.The festival opens on February 12 with the world premiere of Alan Gilsenan's Timbuktu with Eva Birthistle and closes ...
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Irish Film Board looks to recruit key staff
The Irish Film Board (IFB), Ireland's national screen agency, has advertised for five full time positions.The IFB currently has 15 staff and the positions advertised largely arise from vacancies created by departing staff.The positions advertised are deputy head of production investment, development manager, business executive, policy executive, and executive assistant.Staff ...
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Doolan joins Irish Arts Council as film specialist
The Irish Arts Council has appointed Jane Doolan to the new part time consulting role of Film Specialist. She will be responsible for developmental work and for providing policy advice to the Arts Council on film.The Arts Council is a major source of funding in Ireland for cultural organisations such ...
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Channel 4's Omagh drama wraps
Production has wrapped in Navan and Dublin on Omagh, the dramatisation of events leading up to and the aftermath of the terrorist bomb atrocity which struck the Northern Ireland town of Omagh on August 15, 1998.Based on extensive research and consultation with the families of the 29 people killed by ...
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UGC offloads main Belfast multiplex
UGC Cinemas UK has sold its ten-screen Belfast site for a reported £5.5m to Michael McAdam's Movie House Cinemas. Movie House already operate three sites in Northern Ireland - in Belfast (Yorkgate), Glengormley and Maghera.The cinema will be rebranded Movie House, Dublin Road and an improvement scheme is being implemented. ...
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BVI Ireland celebrates record breaking year
Buena Vista Ireland has set a number of Irish distribution records in 2003 to become the number one Irish distributor for the first time in its ten years in business.The top slot has been achieved with a combination of strongly performing titles from the Disney and Miramax stables together with ...
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Ireland's Tribal looks to Bloom with Joyce adaptation
Tribal Films, the new Irish distribution and sales outfit set up in July, has announced its acquisition of all Irish rights to Sean Walsh's Bloom with plans for an early February theatrical release.Bloom (formerly Bl,.m) is an adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. The film's Dublin premiere will coincide with the ...
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Irish minister fires tax abuse broadside
The Irish Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, John O'Donoghue, has issued a stern warning to producers about abusing the film industry's Section 481 tax break.Speaking at the launch of the Irish Film Board's Annual Review, O'Donoghue said: "No-one is suggesting that the majority, or anything close to it, of ...
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Report reveals Irish gov't thinking over Section 481
The thinking behind the Irish government's decision to grant a reprieve to Section 481 in last week's Budget is revealed today in a major PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) report.The report was commissioned jointly by the Irish Film Board and the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and was sent to the Department ...
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Ward Anderson move prompts Dublin speculation
There is considerable speculation in the Irish industry about the direction of the family owned Ward Anderson Group, the country's largest exhibitor.Last Friday, the staff associated with the Ward family's side of the business moved out of Ward Anderson Group headquarters, Filmhouse, on Dublin's Abbey Street.On Monday morning, the Ward ...
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Irish relief as Section 481 wins extension
Irish Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy confirmed in his Budget Speech today (Nov 3) that the film Section 481 tax incentive will be extended to the end of 2008 and that the cap on total investment in any one film will be increased from Euros 10.48m to Euros15m from 2005. The ...