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05 Feb 2021 : Nathan Griffin Screen Producers Ireland CEO Susan Kirby. We spoke with Screen Producers Ireland CEO Susan Kirby to get an update on the status of production in Ireland at present, the implications of COVID on film sets, the need for industry-focused PUP, the need for more support from insurance brokers, the future potential of SVOD markets, and settling into the new role at SPI. Kirby took up her role at the beginning of January 2021, replacing previous CEO Elaine Geraghty who was appointed Chief Executive of Ardmore Studios and Troy Studios ...

29 Jan 2021 : Nathan Griffin Troy Studios and Foundation With a budget of over €45m, and employing up to 500 people, Apple TV+’s Foundation is Ireland’s largest scale production ever. Filmed at Troy Studios in Limerick and based on the hugely influential series of books from Isaac Asimov, the ambitious series is set to be the centrepiece of Apple’s slate of original content when it premieres later this year. Both Troy and Foundation have had fascinating journeys and evolved enormously to get to where we find them today. IFTN takes a look at the projec...

15 Jan 2021 : Nathan Griffin Game of Thrones set in Titanic Studios COVID 19 has left the Film & TV industry in something of a contradictory situation at the moment. With lockdown driving more and more audiences towards streaming platforms this has increased the need for original content while simultaneously making it more and more difficult to shoot content.  Going forward however one thing is certain, studio space will be key to attracting high-level productions to these shores.  There is currently an acute global shortage of studio space to meet the g...

Irish content is already proving successful on streaming platforms, with titles such as The Young Offenders, Angela’s Christmas finding success on Netflix, TV shows such as Normal People reaching a huge international audience on Hulu, and, more recently, Oscar-tipped Animated Feature Wolfwalkers becoming the jewel in the crown of Apple TV+’s first slate of acquisitions. But as the VoD market continues to rapidly change and evolve, there are huge opportunities for the Irish Film & Television Sector to capitalise on emergent trends and cement Ireland’s place as a global production hub...

WandaVision represents a hastening of the shift away from old distribution modes by Disney, which has been hugely disrupted by coronavirus. Other Disney + shows due in 2021 include The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, which is set for a March release. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Tom Hiddleston is back, too, as god of mischief Loki in May. He will star alongside Owen Wilson and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in a limited-run romp with a time-travel plot that feels like a second cousin to Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. And then Jeremy Renner will strap on h...