Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is Ireland’s top-grossing film at the box office this year.

Bridget Jones’s Baby has toppled more fancied blockbusters to be officially crowned the highest-grossing film at the Irish box office last year.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens has helped generate a bumper year for the Irish cinema industry, with overall box office receipts predicted to soar to more than €100m by the end of the year.

Our enduring love affair with the silver screen has helped generate box office receipts of almost €100m over the past year, with Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie topping the film charts for 2014.

An unlikely alliance of a foul-mouthed Dublin stall holder and a rag-tag group of intergalactic outlaws have joined forces to save Irish cinemas this summer.