Breakfast on Pluto leads success overseas for Irish movies

The Irish Film Board (IFB) has said films co-financed by the board in the first three months of 2005 have been snapped up for overseas distribution.

Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American, Latin American, German , Austrian and South African rights to Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto while sales agent Pathe Pictures International has sold Spain (Vertigo), Japan (Elephant/Pony Canyon), Scandinavia (Nordisk) and Holland (A Film), as well as Portugal, Greece, Eastern Europe and Israel.