Not since the Civil War has an event divided the nation as much as the row between Ireland football manager Mick McCarthy and team captain Roy Keane on the island of Saipan in the run-up to the 2002 World Cup campaign. Now the drama is to be re-enacted in a new movie starring Steve Coogan […]
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An Cailín Ciúin grosses €1m at box office
An Cailín Ciúin has grossed over €1 million at the box-office, a remarkable feat for an Irish language film after 22 weeks in cinemas in Ireland and the UK. Since its release last May, the film has been a hit at international film festivals, won a slew of awards and proved popular with critics. It […]
Wide Eye Media now Pearl & Dean
Cinema sales house Wide Eye Media has been rebranded to Pearl & Dean by its Irish parent company Deanforbes, which owns both businesses. WEM and P&D have been working closely together from a marketing perspective since 2015. The move will make the partnership official and establish brand consistency across the Republic of Ireland and the […]
Dingle Distillery sponsors new film festival
It was the backdrop to the Academy-award winning Ryan’s Daughter starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s Far And Away and it was even the home of Jedi Master Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Now the Kingdom will once again roll out the red carpet for the new […]
Study points to cinema’s high attention levels
Amplified Intelligence are capturing cinema attention data for the attention Plan platform, said to be the world’s first measurement of its kind. After a pilot study, fieldwork is now underway in Australasia. Data collection is conducted in real-life cinema sessions, using equipment imperceptible to the audience, reflecting a natural cinema experience. With Plan, there is […]
TG4’s An Cailín Ciúin entered for Oscars
An Cailín Ciúin is Ireland’s entry for the Oscars in the best international feature film category. It is the third year in a row that IFTA has chosen a film from the Cine4 scheme from TG4, Screen Ireland and the BAI as Ireland’s nomination. An Cailín Ciúin is the debut feature film from writer and […]
Cinema box office take hits €47m
The cinema box office take for the Republic of Ireland last year was €47.5 million, up from €29.5m in 2020, with £14.8m up North. Cinemas faced enforced closure during one half of the year due to the pandemic, while, for the other half, capacity restrictions were in place. The top 10 films of 2021 in […]
Omniplex confirm cinema re-openings
Omniplex Cinemas have announced a phased re-opening plan, starting with nine of its cinemas from next Monday, June 7. The cinemas are in Arklow, Cork, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, Rathmines, Sligo, Tralee and Wexford. On June 11, the company will open six more cinemas, in Carlow, Balbriggan, Drogheda, Monaghan, Roscommon and Waterford. On June 18, cinemagoers […]
Study shows cinema’s brand power
Cinemas in Ireland may be closed right now due to the pandemic but an ad campaign highlighting world hunger has shown that airing first with cinema helps amplify the rest of a campaign on other media later. To change the perception of their work for the greater good and stimulate donations, the UN World Food […]
Almost all cinemas now open for business
Cinema sales house Wide Eye Media reports that 95 per cent of cinemas in the Republic are now open. Admissions have been strong in recent weeks following the release of Chris Nolan’s Tenet, After We Collided and New Mutants. During September, Keanu Reeves is back in Bill & Ted Face the Music and Geraldine Viswanathan […]
One in two cinemas now open for business
Half of Ireland’s cinemas are now open for business, Wide Eye Media (WEM) reports. The Eclipse, Gate, IMC, Movieworld, Movies@, Odeon, Omniplex, The Arc, The Lighthouse and various independent screens are now operating again. Su Duff, marketing director, WEM, said other cinemas are due to reopen in the coming weeks as new releases come out. […]
Anti-racism ad created by Cannes Young Lions
Cinema and advertising interests teamed up with the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) to produce a Cannes Young Lions-winning cinema ad, relaunching the iReport.ie web resource as an app to make reporting and responding to racism easier. INAR co-ordinates a network of 102 civil society bodies developing racist incident reports since 2013. They logged thousands […]
1917: Two WW1 couriers on a mission
At a time when Ireland is divided over whether or not to commemorate the country’s police forces in charge of national security a century ago, an epic first World War drama unfolds in cinemas in time for honours at next month’s Oscars. In 1917, two British corporals are tasked with getting an urgent message to […]
