11 May 2021 : Nathan Griffin Deadly Cuts The news of the acquisition comes ahead of next months virtual Cannes pre-screenings with Los Angeles-based Myriad Pictures picking up international rights for the film excluding Ireland and the UK.
The comedy is the feature debut from writer/director Rachel Carey, which debuted at the Dublin International Film Festival in March, and saw Carey pick up a Discovery Award.
“We are pleased to be working with the producers on this original and comedic film firmly set in Ireland,”Myriad Pictures president and CEO Kirk D’Amico told Screen Daily.
“Rachel Carey, the writer and director, has created a very believable world of hair salons and stylists confronted with an existential problem. The performances are terrific. The final cut of this film will leave you smiling.”
German generals sign unconditional surrender to the Allied Forces at Reims bringing five years of war to an end.
Winston Churchill, Harold Truman and Joseph Stalin prepare to synchronise the announcement of the end of the war.
Telephone talks between London, Washington and Moscow have been ongoing to synchronise the announcement of peace between all three capitals.
It has been reported on German radio that the German Foreign Minister had announced that Admiral Kark Dönitz had ordered the unconditional surrender of all German troops.
The High Command had ordered the unconditional surrender of all fighting German troops.
Germany s General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender documents marking the end of the Second World War stating
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Maria Bailey said she was silenced in fear during the nine months of online abuse she received after details of a legal action she had taken were made public.
The former Fine Gael TD believes that despite the negative commentary, she still would have entered politics if she knew then what she knows now.
She brought a personal injury claim against the Dean Hotel after she alleged she fell from a swing in the hotel s restaurant in 2015.
Amid significant public criticism of the claim when its details were made public in 2019, the Dublin TD withdrew her case in May.
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has made an offer to the Danish authorities for Poland to buy back doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson after the product was pulled from the Danish vaccination programme due to rare cases of blood clots potentially linked to the vaccine, Polsat News TV has reported. Read more.
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China Atlantic base to spark ‘strong concern’, Portuguese minister says. Any Chinese military base in the Atlantic Ocean is unnecessary and any such hypothesis would be viewed with “strong concern”, Portugal’s minister of defence, João Gomes Cravinho, has said, adding that it was “not a good idea” to transform this region into a scenario of “geopolitical conflict”. More
The Irish parliament has proposed legislation that would establish a new media commission. The proposed body would see staff transferred from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) and establish an Online Safety Commissioner tasked with the regulation of social media platforms with a focus on the online abuse of female politicians and journalists.
“We take note of the targeting of journalists and politicians and women journalists and politicians in particular,” said the BAI’s deputy chief executive, Celine Craig.
“This draft law envisages that the era of self-regulation is over and there will be a requirement for platforms to be accountable to the independent regulator,” she added.