Irish among Golden Globe Nominations
Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Irish feature ‘Albert Nobbs’ and Irish filmed drama ‘Game of Thrones’ are among the nominees for the 69th Annual Golden Globes.
Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Irish feature ‘Albert Nobbs’ and Irish filmed drama ‘Game of Thrones’ are among the nominees for the 69th Annual Golden Globes.
John Michael McDonagh’s ‘The Guard’ is at the centre of a storm that erupted at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
‘Ireland’s answer to Gérard Depardieu ‘ interviewed in The Guardian ahead of the release of ‘The Guard’ across UK.
Element Pictures’ ‘The Guard’ took in $194,000 this past weekend August 5-7th in the US bringing its total to $309,000. But once again it is its average revenue per screen figure that is worth shouting about.
On the back of its incredible average revenue per screen figures last week at the US Box Office, independent Irish feature ‘The Guard’ will open across 100 screens in 50 cities in the US in August.
Element Pictures ‘The Guard’ phenomenal success continues as it comes second at the US Box Office in average revenue per screen in its opening weekend 29-31 July, trouncing blockbuster new releases such as ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ and ‘The Smurfs’.
Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle have been given a lifetime membership to the legendary New York comedy club, the Friars Club and the odd couple has been awarded the Best New Buddy Comedy Duo Award.
The Guard has drunk the milkshake of the Transformers, the Pirates Of The Caribbean, X-Men babies, and that Kung Fu fighting Panda.
Darkly comic Irish thriller ‘The Guard’ continues to storm the Irish box office with takings of €397,000 this weekend taking its total past €1.42 million.
John Michael McDonagh’s comedy-thriller THE GUARD is a box-office smash with a weekend gross of over half a million euro, knocking BRIDESMAIDS from the coveted No 1 position.
Irish feature, The Guard, had its world premiere in Park City, Utah as part of the prestigious Sundance film festival. The Guard was selected as the opening film of the World Dramatic Competition at the 2011 festival.