TAKE THE MONEY & RUN
Sneaky, underhanded and devious individuals will reap all the rewards in a new TV reality game show format sold by Belfast’s Wild Rover Productions to Jerry Bruckheimer, the famous producer behind the CSI television franchise.
Tag: entertainment
ARDMORE STUDIOS PROFITS FROM TUDORS
Ardmore Studios boosted operating profits by more than 70% in 2009 to €500,000 and the hit TV drama The Tudors was the main reason why, The Sunday Times reports.
ONCE
A movie that cost just €130,000 and 17 days to make will cost at least $6m to reprise as a Broadway musical next year according to its would-be producers, The Sunday Times reports.
THE SILENCE
The winner of the gong in ‘The One That Got Away’ category belongs to the hit BBC TV drama series, The Silence, which featured among 37 feature films and 47 documentaries refused funding by the Irish Film Board over the past two years, The Sunday Times reports.
TV LICENCES
They may have heard all the excuses and we know none of them work but TV licence inspectors may about to have an even bigger incentive to knock on more doors, according to The Sunday Business Post.
DISNEY IN DUBLIN
The US entertainment giant is believed to be about to take over the former Laura Ashley shop on Dublin’s Grafton St, according to The Sunday Tribune, quoting “numerous sources”. The seven-figure lease has been signed following the collapse of a deal to lease the neighbouring Dunnes Stores premises.
ENTERTAINMENT & MEDIA OUTLOOK
Irish Entertainment & Media to grow by a billion dollars over the next five years to 2014 – says PwC at the launch of its 11th Entertainment & Media Outlook
Overall, Irish E&M will grow by 4.1% compounded annually over the next five years to 2014 reaching US$5.6 billion.
MARIO ROSENSTOCK
It may not represent the kind of smart economy the government is so desperately punting as the panacea for all our economic ills but it is undeniably smart and eminently exportable.
THREE STRIKES AND UPC
The High Court is due to decide today (Monday) if UPC can be forced to stop its customers illegally downloading music from the Internet.
XTRA-VISION VS. CHARTBUSTERS
Xtra-vision is in talks to take over Chartbusters, its main rival, according to reports in several newspapers.
BROWN BAG ON CBEEBIES
The latest animation from Brown Bag Films will begin a run on the BBC from tomorrow, according to The Sunday Business Post.
GORDON GECKO
Gordon Gekko, the cinematic personification of 1980s excess who coined the famous line ‘greed is good’, makes an unlikely return as the harbinger of financial meltdown in Oliver Stone’s sequel to Wall Street, which opens this week.
THEATRE
Going up to Monto was never as dramatic as World’s End Lane the sell-out show at the Absolut Fringe Theatre festival based in the notorious red-light district.