State papers: Hollywood producers blamed Government for failing to promote country as a location
An IDA Ireland official, Bart Daly, who met with several vice-presidents of major studios in Hollywood in 1987, said they felt Ireland was 'not even on the table' when it came to countries that could be used as a film location because there was a total lack of information about facilities.
Some of Hollywood’s leading movie producers blamed the Irish government for not doing anything to promote Ireland as a location for shooting films in the late 1980s.
Newly-released State papers show leading executives from some of LA’s best-known movie studios including Paramount, MGM, Columbia and Universal felt there was a total lack of marketing of the film industry in Ireland.
