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Queen’s announces multimillion-pound investment to boost screen industries in Northern Ireland Virtual Production Queen’s University Belfast has announced a £2.5 million investment for an interdisciplinary research facility, MediaLab, focusing on virtual production that will help drive R&D for the screen industries and upskill the local sector in Northern Ireland. Advances in computer game engines, scanning technologies and 3D rendering have driven a much-predicted convergence of film, animation, games and virtual reality technologies into a new world of virtual production.   This ha...

According to IndieWire, production on Robert Eggers’ forthcoming Viking revenge film The Northman has finally been completed after almost four months of filming in Ireland. Further details about the director’s upcoming third feature are still under wraps but Anya Taylor-Joy previously described the film as something that the world hasn’t seen before. The Northman is described as a Viking revenge film that will be set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th Century. Eggers will direct from a script he co-wrote with Icelandic novelist Sjón. Eggers has put together an all-star ensemble fo...

THE NORTHMAN: Robert Eggers Wraps Viking Epic with Anya-Taylor Joy By Mike Sprague The Northman with Anya Taylor-Joy ( The New Mutants) wrapped shooting last week. Plot details are scarce. But we do know that The Northman takes place in the 10th century. It centers on a Nordic prince seeking revenge after his father is murdered. Co-written with Icelandic poet/novelist Sjón,  The Northman does not have an official release date but filming recently started near the eastern coast of Ireland. Taylor-Joy says: “ [We] have now ...