Hackman Capital Partners and partner Square Mile Capital Management, announced today that they are making significant further investment in the Irish creative industries. The group, who was behind the acquisition of Ireland’s Ardmore Studiosand Troy Studios in August 2021, has been selected to develop the new Greystones Media Campus, a planned and shovel-ready state-of-the-art film
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Should RTÃ keep its âcitadelâ in Donnybrook?
Variants of this question pop up now and again, but it doesnât take much imagination to see why they might be asked after a year in which a pandemic has hollowed out its Montrose campus and spurred workplaces everywhere to embrace the pleasures of Zoom.
At last Tuesdayâs meeting of the Dáilâs Committee of Public Accounts (PAC), the future location of RTà was raised twice, once by Labourâs Seán Sherlock in the context of using telecoms to decentralise from âDonnybrook and the citadel that is RTÃâ and âgive voice to the regionsâ, and once by Fianna Fáilâs Marc MacSharry, who suggested the broadcaster might âcash in the chipsâ of its prime acreage.
15 Jan 2021 : Nathan Griffin Game of Thrones set in Titanic Studios COVID 19 has left the Film & TV industry in something of a contradictory situation at the moment. With lockdown driving more and more audiences towards streaming platforms this has increased the need for original content while simultaneously making it more and more difficult to shoot content.
Going forward however one thing is certain, studio space will be key to attracting high-level productions to these shores. There is currently an acute global shortage of studio space to meet the growing demands of those engaged in the aforementioned content creation race. High demand for studio infrastructure and skyrocketing domestic real estate prices in the USA - particularly in California and New York - are compounding the problem. In 2016, the Los Angeles soundstage occupancy rate was 96%. Since then demand has increased considerably.