Paris-based company is also launching sales on live-action, animation hybrid A Winter’s Journey.
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has boarded sales on Irish animation director Paul Bolger’s family CGI animated feature Outfoxed!, featuring a screenplay by popular compatriot musician and screenwriter Barry Devlin.
The Ireland-set tale revolves around a family of urban foxes that embarks on an adventure-filled day-trip to the countryside, after one of its cubs asks to see where he was born. Devlin has delivered a screenplay that will appeal to both young and older audiences.
The UK-Ireland-Benelux-Germany production unites top European animation houses Dublin-based Monster Entertainment...
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has boarded sales on Irish animation director Paul Bolger’s family CGI animated feature Outfoxed!, featuring a screenplay by popular compatriot musician and screenwriter Barry Devlin.
The Ireland-set tale revolves around a family of urban foxes that embarks on an adventure-filled day-trip to the countryside, after one of its cubs asks to see where he was born. Devlin has delivered a screenplay that will appeal to both young and older audiences.
The UK-Ireland-Benelux-Germany production unites top European animation houses Dublin-based Monster Entertainment...
- 2/22/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Irish producer ShinAwiL has launched a drama division and has set a slate that includes a crime drama from Ballykissangel writer Barry Devlin, a period drama from author Ann-Marie Casey and a tween Canadian co-pro.
The company, which is best known for producing Irish versions of unscripted hits such as Dancing with the Stars and The Voice, has tapped Vikings and The Borgias producer Aaron Farrell to run the unit with Mary Callery, former commissioning editor of drama at Irish public broadcaster Rte.
ShinAwiL is launching its inaugural scripted slate ahead of Series Mania in Lille, France, where it will talk with broadcasters and production partners about its projects.
Kill is a six-part contemporary crime drama written by Devlin, who produced a number of music videos for U2 in the 1980s and has written episodes of The Darling Buds of May, PBS and BBC co-pro My Mother and Other Strangers...
The company, which is best known for producing Irish versions of unscripted hits such as Dancing with the Stars and The Voice, has tapped Vikings and The Borgias producer Aaron Farrell to run the unit with Mary Callery, former commissioning editor of drama at Irish public broadcaster Rte.
ShinAwiL is launching its inaugural scripted slate ahead of Series Mania in Lille, France, where it will talk with broadcasters and production partners about its projects.
Kill is a six-part contemporary crime drama written by Devlin, who produced a number of music videos for U2 in the 1980s and has written episodes of The Darling Buds of May, PBS and BBC co-pro My Mother and Other Strangers...
- 3/25/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Cu Chulainn will be portrayed as a brutal killer in the news "Lord of the Rings" style movie called "Hound". The movie is set to start production next year with computer-generated imagery and special effects helping to tell the ancient tales. The tag line to the movie is already being quoted as "Born to Kill, Dying to Defend". The movie will be directed by Paul Bolger, who worked on the cartoon "The Land Before Time", while the script is being written by, former Horslips front man, Barry Devlin. So far the Irish Film Board has given the movie $37,327 and $62,497 has come from the Northern Ireland Screen. The movie is expected for release in 2013. Although filming is expected to take place in Ireland it is reported that the production team is already in talks with U.S. studios. The film will capture all the violence and gore of the original fables.
- 9/14/2010
- IrishCentral
In the upcoming film “The Virgin of Las Vegas,” Liam Neeson portrays an Irish showband singer with a dead end career who heads to Las Vegas to turn things around. Now reports say the Irish veteran actor will sing his own songs in the movie. Ex-Horslips musician Barry Devlin of County Tyrone wrote the screenplay for the film, and tells the Belfast Telegraph: "Liam is a good singer. He'll be doing his own vocals." According to an insider, Neeson’s character will also be an alcoholic, but he’ll "find his life turned on its head following the arrival of a mysterious stranger.” The Irish showbands film will be produced by U2 star Bono, and American actress Eva Mendes is rumored to be co-starring alongside Neeson. Producers are also in talks with several famous Irish actors, including Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy and Gabriel Byrne, who would potentially play Neeson’s backup band members.
- 10/12/2009
- IrishCentral
To the best of our knowledge Bono and Liam Neeson have never worked on a project together, so it’s high time the two Irish icons joined forces to create something special. And that’s exactly what they plan to do with the news that Neeson will star in a movie called “The Virgin of Las Vegas,” to be produced by Bono, this according to Variety magazine. The film will see Neeson portray an Irish showband singer with a dead end career who heads to Las Vegas to turn things around. According to an insider, Neeson’s character will also be an alcoholic, but he’ll "find his life turned on its head following the arrival of a mysterious stranger.” The screenplay was written by Barry Devlin, who’s best known in Ireland as a member of the oldie but goodie band the Horslips. Bono is putting up the estimated...
- 9/10/2009
- IrishCentral
Even though he's riding high on a professional wave of success following Taken, with upcoming appearances in potential blockbuster movies like Clash of the Titans and The A-Team, actor Liam Neeson still has time to pay tribute to his roots by performing in a low-budget movie about an Irish "show band" singer called The Virgin of Las Vegas. The Virgin takes place before television, when cover bands were wildly popular. Neeson plays an aging alcoholic performer working in Las Vegas whose life changes "following the arrival of a mysterious stranger."
No strangers to the music scene are two of the Irishmen behind the project: U2's Bono is producing the movie from a script by Horslips' Barry Devlin, with a production budget of only $14 million.
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No strangers to the music scene are two of the Irishmen behind the project: U2's Bono is producing the movie from a script by Horslips' Barry Devlin, with a production budget of only $14 million.
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- 9/8/2009
- by BrentJS Sprecher
- Reelzchannel.com
Variety reports that Liam Neeson has signed to star in The Virgin of Las Vegas, which recalls the phenomenon of Irish show bands. In the days before television became widespread, many Irish would go to live venues to see singers cover early rock and roll songs. The bands become increasingly popular in Ireland beginning in the 1950s and evenutally amassed large followings across the country.
This movie will see Neeson as an aging show band performer who has moved to Las Vegas and spends his days in a drunken haze until a mysterious stranger arrives to change his fortunes. The script is being penned by Barry Devlin, who also wrote A Man of No Importance, which tells the story of a gay Irish bus driver with a passion for Oscar Wilde plays. The connection, of course, is a maladjusted Irishman who finds redemption in the arts.
Although no other casting decisions have been announced,...
This movie will see Neeson as an aging show band performer who has moved to Las Vegas and spends his days in a drunken haze until a mysterious stranger arrives to change his fortunes. The script is being penned by Barry Devlin, who also wrote A Man of No Importance, which tells the story of a gay Irish bus driver with a passion for Oscar Wilde plays. The connection, of course, is a maladjusted Irishman who finds redemption in the arts.
Although no other casting decisions have been announced,...
- 9/4/2009
- by Rich Z Zwelling
- Reelzchannel.com
Sean Stokes – CEO of Screen Producers Ireland talks to Iftn on the Section 481 Panel discussion held at the week in Cannes and two new features to be shot in Ireland are announced; Octagon Film's 'The Last Furlong' and Ignition Film's 'Lend Me Your Face'. Ignition Film's 'Lend Me Your Face' to be directed by Maurice Linnane and written by Barry Devlin, is reported to commence filming this week in Dublin with Jayne Wisener (Sweeney Todd) and Mark O'Halloran (Adam and Paul) attached. French director Agnes Merlet, who shot 'Dorothy Mills', looks to direct 'The Last Furlong', written by Nick Murphy (The Running Mate). The project will be a co production with Dublin's Octagon Films and France's Fidelite. Production is likely to happen in November of this year in Dublin and Wicklow.
- 5/20/2009
- IFTN
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