'The Tourist' secures Revenue tax credits of €5m to €10m 

Revenue said a total of €104m in payments under Section 481 of the Tax Consolidation Act were made to film and TV production companies for the first nine months of the year

Jamie Dornan stars in 'The Tourist'.

The Irish production firm behind Jamie Dornan's The Tourist television thriller has secured corporation tax credits of between €5m and €10m from the Revenue.

The figures show Metropolitan Films International Ltd of the second series of The Tourist received the payment in July. 

Series two features Mr Dornan reprising his role as an amnesia-afflicted car crash victim struggling to piece together his past. Series 1 of the global hit has been broadcast on RTÉ and BBC. Filming on series two started in Dublin in April. 

The third quarterly Revenue figures also show a film adaptation of acclaimed novelist Claire Keegan's bestseller Small Things Like These, which stars Cillian Murphy, received between €2m to €5m in movie tax credits.

The film is set in an Irish town at Christmas 1985 and also stars Ciarán Hinds and Emily Watson.

Cillian Murphy had said earlier this year he was "honoured and thrilled" to help bring Ms Keegan’s novel to the screen.

A spokeswoman for Revenue said a total of €104m in payments under Section 481 of the Tax Consolidation Act were made to film and TV production companies for the first nine months.

The payout is up 34% from the €77.5m paid out for the same period last year.

The spokeswoman said the payments included first instalments and final balancing claims over multiple years.

The quarterly figures published by Revenue also show Keeper Pictures Ltd — formerly Blinder Films Ltd — received between €500,000 and €1m in tax credits for Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, in August. 

Salt Films Ltd received between €2m to €5m for the TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s bestseller Moonflower Murders, while Shinawil Ltd, in another production that featured Mr Dornan, received tax credits of between €2m to €5m last month for Borderline. 

In the action thriller, Mr Dornan plays an IRA man sent to London in the mid-1970s. 

The production company had also put out a call for extras to feature in the drama, which was also made in Dundalk.

The figures also show Sackville Film and Television Productions Ltd, which is behind series two of The Dry, and which stars Róisín Gallagher, received between €1m to €2m in tax credits in the last quarter.

Revenues figures also show Port Pictures Ltd received under €500,000 for the film adaptation of novelist Niall Williams’s best seller Four Letters of Love. The production stars Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne.

As part of last week's budget, the Government announced an expansion of the Sector 481 tax credit scheme.

Section 481 currently offers a 32% corporation tax credit on qualifying expenditure for films or television productions made in Ireland, up to a limit of €70m per project.

The new cap, which has now been raised to €125m, is expected to come into effect early next year.