You could say it was ‘down in one’, because one day is all it took for Heineken to blot out the pint of stout that dominates an iconic mural in Macroom.

New accounts filed by Metropolitan Films International and subsidiaries show the group received almost €25.5m last year, and €37.5m in Section 481 film tax credits in 2017.

Octagon Films, the Wicklow-based production company behind dramas like Love/Hate and The Borgias, has repaid all of the start-up money advanced to it by a German investor 15 years ago.

Former taxing master James Flynn and a company of which he is a director have consented to judgment in favour of AIB.

A dispute is before the High Court involving AIB, a company, and a retired High Court taxing master over an alleged settlement of a demand by the bank for repayment of monies it claims are due and owing.

The filming of ’Star Wars’ should have a knock-on effect that will boost the film and tourist industries, writes John Daly

The multi-award-winning production company behind the Love/ Hate phenomenon, Octagon Films was sitting on accumulated profits of €242,365 at the end of last year.

The US wife of Irish property developer John Flynn is asking the Commercial Court to declare she has no interest in a Dublin office park as part of Nama’s bid to recover a €22m debt owed by the Flynn family.

Philomena Lee, Robbie and Claudine Keane, The Strypes and Snow Patrol were some of the guests at the US-Ireland Alliance’s ninth Oscar Wilde party which saw TV host Conan O’Brien and YouTube founder Chad Hurley honoured.

A claim that IBRC overcharged developer John Flynn €100,000 on loans has to be seen in the context of Nama’s claim Mr Flynn and his family owe the agency €21m, the Commercial Court has heard.

The new series of Love/Hate will match the standards set by last year’s hit series.

Employee numbers at one of Ireland’s best-known TV and movie production companies, Octagon Films, have increased to 850 as a result of new series of The Borgias and Vikings currently in production.

A law firm that charged a client €200 an hour for “suicide abatement” by a solicitor came under fire from the president of the High Court yesterday.

RTE's hit drama 'Love/Hate' looks set to clean up at the 2012 IFTAs this year, with ten nominations announced today.

A REPORT has identified the film sector as a key area of growth and employment in the Irish economy over the next five years.

AMAZING was how writer-director Juanita Wilson described her recent triumph at the IFTAs, when her film As If I Am Not There won the Best Script, Best Director and Best Film awards.

IT WAS often a source of bemusement for the wonderful Marcus Dunlop (RIP) that when it came to racehorses, the more he knew, the less he won.

Ireland’s Oscar nominations will be celebrated this week with a special screening of all three films up for a prestigious award.

A film-maker nominated for an Oscar today revealed how she braved the most radioactive place on earth to relive a true story.

A new €6m movie will be filmed in Ireland later this year, it was revealed at the Cannes Film Festival today.

THE vast, almost bottomless and uncharted, internet can enrage and inform, entertain and educate, mislead and have a negative or positive influence, but even in this huge resource, the sites devoted to trying to find missing people are amongst the most poignant.

MORE than €150 million worth of film and television projects are in the “pipeline” as a result of recent tax relief changes, Arts Minister Martin Cullen has claimed.

More than 20 Irish production companies will travel to Los Angeles this month to promote the country’s film industry to some of the world’s top studio executives.

MULTI-MILLION euro epic movie Tristan and Isolde is expected to attract more films to shoot on Ireland's western shores after it opens in cinemas across Europe this week.

Multi-million euro epic movie Tristan and Isolde is expected to attract more films to shoot on Ireland’s western shores after it opens in cinemas across Europe this week.

A lavish ball from the late 18th century was recreated in an Irish castle tonight for a multi-million euro movie telling the tale of author Jane Austen’s own life.

A new business-to-business online exchange aimed at promoting bartering has been launched.

Damien O'Donnell's latest film has been selected for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in Utah as part of the prestigious festival's Premieres programme.

WHEN you’re a builder in Ireland in the middle of a boom you can afford to be lavish with your own house.

Irish film-maker Damien O'Donnell is today toasting the success of his movie Inside I'm Dancing, after it scooped the prestigious Standard Life Audience Award at the 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival.

An independent film producer has claimed the State is making more than it is losing when films are made in Ireland.