Ballincollig native Aidan O’Callaghan is set to play Kareg in the four-episode spin-off. The 34-year-old made his first on-screen debut in 2014 in KILL DAY, a post-apocalyptic TV series set in 2050’s Britain. But Aidan has been well acclaimed for his role in the English TV show EASTENDERS, where he played the antagonistic barman, Lewis Butler earlier this year.
A Belfast film director has won two prestigious awards for her new documentary on singer Sinéad O’Connor. Kathryn Ferguson was named winner of the Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary category at the 25th British Independent Film Awards in London on Sunday for her film NOTHING COMPARES, which was released in October. The film, produced with the support of NI Screen and Screen Ireland, and which charts the career of the Dublin-born singer from 1987 to 1993, also won the Best Feature Documentary category at the event.
DERRY GIRLS creator Lisa McGee has vowed to continue to write about the “place I come from, the place I love” as she received the freedom of the city. The writer was awarded the freedom of Derry City and Strabane at a ceremony this week. Ms McGee becomes the first woman to receive the council’s highest honour. It is an “honour and a privilege” to be recognised in a city “steeped in story and full of storytellers,” she said.
THE QUIET GIRL is one of two Irish films that have been ranked among the best movies of 2022 by Rotten Tomatoes. The film scored an enviable 100% on the ‘Tomatometer,’ receiving high marks from nearly 50 critics. US audiences will finally have the chance to see it, which is Ireland’s official entry in the International Feature category for the 2023 Oscars, in theaters this month.
THE PATIENT concludes the only way possible: With Domhnall Gleeson strangling Steve Carell to death. After 10 episodes, Gleeson’s character, Sam Fortner—a reticent serial killer with a Kenny Chesney obsession and a day job as a restaurant inspector—reaches the breaking point he was hoping to circumvent. Vanity Fair talked to the actor, whose exciting career has included projects as varied as ABOUT TIME, EX MACHINA and STAR WARS.
When Jessie Buckley first read Sarah Polley’s script for WOMEN TALKING, it bothered her. There they were, a bunch of women sitting in a barn in the back-blocks of Canada, talking about what they were going to do with their lives: they wouldn’t let her go. “There was so much unknown within it, which was the best part of it, because it kept nagging me,” she says. “Even after I’d read the original book and met Sarah, it was something that kept just returning. I was like, ‘Get out! Get out of my head!’”
Cillian Murphy will play the father of the hydrogen bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. A man who, despite inventing the deadly weapon, wanted to place International controls on his dangerous invention, post-Hiroshima. Director Christopher Nolan is currently in post on the film. Filming had started on February 21 and ended on May 22 with a cast that includes Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh. Rami Malek and Robert Downey Jr.
Legendary film director Martin Scorsese has revealed he is a fan of the popular Irish TV show DERRY GIRLS. The Hollywood legend, 80, made the revelation while speaking at The Economic Club of Chicago annual black tie dinner last month. He was asked what TV show he was currently watching before he told the packed room that he is currently watching the Channel 4 sitcom.