Some of the biggest movies ever were filmed in Ireland and we bet you never knew! Ireland has a wonderful history on the silver screen. From John Wayne’s famous The Quiet Man to Roddy Doyle’s utterly irreplaceable Commitments, Ireland has a huge legacy in the film world. However, there are a couple of movies.
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.
John le Carre British spy novelist John le Carre, who died on Dec.14 at the age of 87, and master spy George Blake who died at 98 two weeks later, are forever linked by Cold War intrigue. Blake, a real life British spy who defected to the Soviet Union, was the opposite number of John Le Carre’s fictional character Alec Leamas, who was sent by Britain to Communist East Berlin to pretend to defect.
Real-life Blake defected and survived, fictional Leamas died on the Berlin Wall after being betrayed by his own side in le Carre’s novel, “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.”
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Frailties: The poster of the 1965 cinematic adaptation starring Richard Burton as Leamas.
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From the day his third novel,
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, was published in 1963, John le Carré realised that he was to be branded “the spy turned writer, rather than a writer who, like scores of his kind, had done a stint in the secret world, and written about it.” Le Carré, a mask for David Cornwell, had worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, in the 1960s.
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