Galway’s arthouse Pálás cinema to close after ‘stark’ financial losses
Closure of seven-year-old venue blamed on rising costs, Covid and ‘oversaturation of commercial cinemas’
Element Pictures
Film production powerhouse Element Pictures sees profits halve
Producer of award-winning Normal People and Poor Things reports pretax profit of €2.64m in 2023
The Listeners review: Creepy and absorbing thriller is a showcase for Irish actor Ollie West
Television review: West plays a school student struggling with a sound only he and teacher Rebecca Hall can hear
Oscar winner David Puttnam says film production can play role in ‘shared’ Ireland
Acclaimed producer says governments North and South should invest in cross-Border culture to build mutual understanding
‘The intimacy co-ordinators are kind of unshockable’: Emma Stone on her new film with Yorgos Lanthimos
If you thought their Oscar-winning collaboration Poor Things was unconventional, wait for the full-throttle madness of Kinds of Kindness
Normal People stars Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones hint at reunion
The actors rose to prominence after starring in an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel
Ripper Street stagehand loses unfair dismissal case against Element Pictures
Labour Court confirms Workplace Relations Commission ruling against founding member of Irish Film Workers Association
Barry Keoghan on playing a working-class dad: ‘I see a lot of traits in Bug that remind me of home. He’s a pure chancer’
Cannes diary 2024: Meryl Streep ‘didn’t quite nail’ the Australian accent and Megalopolis staggers its way to nowhere worth going
Ifta awards: Cillian Murphy and That They May Face the Rising Sun take home top prizes
Lies We Tell claims most awards of the night, including best actress for Agnes O’Casey, as Paul Mescal wins best supporting actor for All of Us Strangers
Fresh drama at RTÉ: Can the broadcaster still afford to make landmark Irish television?
No ghosts, vampires or mummies, RTÉ has told pitching producers. But as it plots its way out of its financial crisis, what type of stories is it bringing to viewers?
Cannes 2024: Irish films to have unprecedented prominence at festival
Three Element Pictures productions will feature in official selection, with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness competing for the Palme d’Or
Irish cinema’s green wave: There are many stories about Ireland better than Irish Wish that need to be told
Aoife Barry: How do we make sure that the stories Ireland tells about itself on screen are not reductive?
Ifta nominations 2024: Lisa Mulcahy’s Lies We Tell tops table with 13 nods
Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Barry Ward and Andrew Scott nominated in best actor category
Oscars 2025: Donald Clarke predicts these 10 films will get best-picture nominations
He missed out on a Poor Things prediction this year – how successful will he be for next year?
Irish Times view on Irish Oscar successes: flowering of a confident cinema culture
The latest strong Irish showing amid the dazzle and glitz of this year’s Academy Awards was no flash in the pan
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy now a ‘favourite’ for the next James Bond, plus other things we learned from the 96th Academy Awards
Amid the kerfuffle, it was somewhat lost that the second-biggest winner of the evening was Poor Things – a remarkable feat for an Irish production
Oscars 2024 as it happened: Cillian Murphy winning best actor crowns ‘huge year’ for Ireland on screen
Oppenheimer wins seven awards including best director and best film, while Irish-produced Poor Things takes home four statuettes including best actress for Emma Stone
Oscars 2024: ‘Very proud Irishman’ Cillian Murphy wins best actor, one of seven awards for Oppenheimer
Emma Stone wins best actress Oscar as Irish-produced Poor Things picks up four Academy Awards
If we want to grow the next generation of Cillian Murphys, we need to treat film like the tech industry
Politicians will stampede to be photographed with the actor if he wins the Oscar. But where are they when the industry is looking for support?
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy leads sky-high Irish hopes as nominees fly out
Irish-made Poor Things is also up for several awards
‘We have to tell our own stories’ – Ed Guiney on new Dublin screenwriting festival
At a ‘very tough’ moment for the international industry, the Element Pictures co-founder hopes this month’s Storyhouse event at the Light House can help screenwriters ‘move to the next phase’
Mike Murphy’s D4 pad, Eamon Ryan’s TV crew and keeping Barry Keoghan’s clothes on
Plus Michael Lynn and the missing penthouse, is James Dyson moving to Waterford, and the value of Artist Hughie O’Donoghue’s Original Sin paintings
BBC orders further two series of hit Belfast police drama Blue Lights
Drama slate also includes The Listeners, a novel adaptation made by Poor Things producers Element Pictures
Baftas 2024: the complete list of winners
Oppenheimer takes top Baftas as Irish-produced film Poor Things and Zone of Interest also triumph
Oscars 2024: How Dublin’s Element Pictures has set new records for Irish film
Analysis: Relationships with director Yorgos Lanthimos and Disney-owned backer Searchlight Pictures have been key to Irish production company’s success
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy’s best actor nomination leads a strong showing for Irish film
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things scores a huge 11 nominations, a record for an Irish-produced film
Seán Quinn: The most eye-catching name on the artists’ tax exemption list
Colin Coyle’s new column also tackles the rich taste of Barry’s tea, the raunchy side of Element Pictures and Trump’s distaste for Nato
Baftas 2024: Full list of nominations
Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan and Paul Mescal recieve nods as Andrew Scott and Lily Gladstone miss out
Bafta nominations 2024: Irish actors Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan and Paul Mescal shortlisted
Andrew Scott and Lily Gladstone, who were both hotly tipped for nominations, miss out in major upset
‘Emma Stone came up with a lot of the sex stuff that we did’: Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos
The master of cerebral weird has made a string of angular comedies with Element Pictures. Their latest, Golden Lion-winning collaboration is their wildest ride yet
Oscars 2023 shortlist: Irish film Flora and Son among the 15 contenders for original song
Irish production Poor Things, by Yorgos Lanthimos, nominated in three categories
Golden Globes: Irish actors Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan and Andrew Scott nominated
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, produced by Dublin’s Element Pictures, receives a whopping seven nominations
Actors in Ireland should receive similar terms to those in Britain, union says
Talks are ongoing with film industry body to improve deal offered to talent amid production boom
Venice film festival: Irish-produced Poor Things wins top Golden Lion award
Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and produced by Irish company Element Pictures, wins Golden Lion
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