MOVIE INDUSTRY RETURNS
The cinema industry is jumping for joy at a bumper third quarter, with admissions up by over 6% despite a scorcher of a summer, The Sunday Independent reports.
The cinema industry is jumping for joy at a bumper third quarter, with admissions up by over 6% despite a scorcher of a summer, The Sunday Independent reports.
Richard Curran’s column in The Sunday Business Post focuses on the life and times of Richard Murphy, whose Chartbusters video rental chain went into voluntary liquidation last week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It looks like Christmas will be coming earlier to a TV screen near you – whether you like it or not. RTE is apparently considering lifting its self-imposed ban on early festive ads, according to a front-page story in The Sunday Business Post.
‘You don’t have to be super-rich to invest in films – generous tax relief means that an investment of the maximum €50,000 would save you €20,500, and even better, you get the benefit up front’.
Sometimes it’s hard not to feel like a complete fool when viewing life from hindsight. Why O why didn’t we see this coming – how differently life would have turned out. Well, console yourself with the thought that it wasn’t just you!
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A Kerry-based entrepreneur who trousered €103m in 2006 when he offloaded his Stockbyte stock photography business to US giant Getty Images is ready to launch his first new business since becoming a multimillionaire, The Sunday Times reports.
Amazon in the UK has tabled a €240m offer to buy out Lovefilm, the online movie rental business, in a bid to increase its grip on all aspects of Britain’s entertainment industry, according to The Sunday Times.