Monthly Archives: November 2012

What you may need to know

1. Here’s the first teaser for the new movie from Guillermo Del Toro. Full trailer to follow.

2. The plot, in short: Monsters Vs. Giant Robots.

3. The word genius gets flung around with gay abandon these days, but GDT is the real deal, from Devil’s Backbone (2001) and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) to his Hellboy movies.

4. He’s spent the last five years trying to get a movie made, while moonlighting for Dreamworks as a creative consultant on  Puss In Boots (2011) and Rise Of The Guardians (2012), which is out today.

5. Pacific Rim stars Idris Elba, plus Sons Of Anarchy stars Charlie Hunnam and Ron Perlman, the latter a Del Toro regular. Wall-to-wall badasses, basically.

Release Date: Summer 2013

Accountancy firm Ernst & Young has been appointed the new auditors to the Quinn Group, which is part-owned by the former Anglo Irish Bank.

The appointment comes just two days after the bank started a legal action against the firm over its role as auditors to the bank before it was taken into State ownership in 2009.

Ernst & Young has replaced rival accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditors to the group formerly owned by the bankrupt and imprisoned businessman Seán Quinn.

A spokesman for Quinn Manufacturing Group confirmed it had just appointed Ernst & Young as its new auditors on a multi-year contract after a competitive tender for the job.

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan told reporters he was aware of the State-owned bank’s action against the firm. “On they go,” he said.

Indeed.

Quinn hires audit firm co-owner is suing (Simon Carswell, Irish Times)