02/09/2003

The Irish film industry is enjoying a very busy production schedule with no less than eight feature films in production (including the animated version of Moby Dick), two films in post-production and two in pre-production.
Among the films in production is the biggest budget project ever shot in Ireland: the €90m World 2000/Touchstone Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Pictures co-production of King Arthur shooting until November this year. Also on the highest end is the Intermedia Films/Hell's Kitchen €30m film Laws of Attraction with Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore which just finished production.

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Fintan Connolly’s romantic comedy Bite produced by Fubar Productions started filming in July, Margo Harkin’s Are You Looking At Me, a Besom Productions has just finished shooting while three other projects are just beginning their shoot: Lakeshore Productions’ The Blackwater Lightship, Treasure Films’s Man About Dog directed by Paddy Breathnach, and Starfish, a low budget film directed by Stephen Kane.
In post-production are the IFB’s ultra-low budget project Dead Meat and Octagon and Granada Films’ The Return. Octagon also has two other projects in pre-production: Damian O’Donnell’s Inside I’m Dancing and Tristan & Isolde.