Cork-set comedy The Young Offenders has been picked up for international sales this week.
Based on the true story of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, The Young Offenders is a road flick about two inner-city teenagers who look to cash in, when a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast of West Cork, spilling 61 bales of cocaine.
According to ScreenDaily:
Carnaby Sales and Distribution has acquired international sales rights to Irish comedy The Young Offenders.
The film has proven a box office hit in its local market, taking €1m for Wildcard Distribution. Vertigo recently snapped the film up for UK, US and Australia/NZ.
The deal was brokered by Carnaby International’s Head of Acquisitions, Lorianne Hall, together with Peter Foott of Vico Films.
As mentioned, the film has already been picked up for UK, American and Aussie releases.
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The collusion between major media outlets and the favored candidate, in this case Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, runs counter to the integrity upheld daily by a majority of hard-working community journalists in the United States,”
To date, the national media has acted more like a Clinton lapdog in its selective reporting on the campaign trail than a Clinton watchdog,” the editorial wrote, later adding, “Accountability is the only thing that can force Clinton to honor the best interests of America. And it must come from an unbiased media.”
Editorial in the The Lowell Sun, in the Democrat state of Massachusetts
The 2016 installment of the Other Voices festival in Dingle, and attendant tapings for the TV series of the same name, were announced today in a video (above) featuring headliner Lisa Hannigan.
Heading into its fifteenth series, it remains one of the few outlets on Irish television for independent music.
Liza Geddes writes:
Between Friday 2nd and Sunday 4th of December, Lisa will join a slew of Irish and international artists to record the fifteenth series of the music TV show, which airs on RTÉ2 in 2017. The St. James’s Church recordings will be hosted by BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, Dublin born/London made DJ and broadcaster Annie Mac and Fight Like Apes‘ leading light May Kay.
In an exclusive Other Voices performance filmed in Berlin, Lisa confirmed appearances in Dingle from internationally breaking Dublin hip hop artist Rejjie Snow, much lauded UK singer and writer Pixie Geldof, Californian musician and singer Margaret Glaspy, Rough Trade signed Irish indie act Girl Band and Mobo nominated musician, poet and artist Kojey Radical.
These and many more emerging and legacy artists will travel to Dingle for the December sessions.
Lisa also performed the track Snow from her latest No. 1 album At Swim, a taster of what to expect from the festival.
Tickets are will be given away free in various competitions, keep an eye on ’em here.
The last time I witnessed a Fox Hunting scene was on the place mats my Granny used to wheel out to impress the visiting aunts and uncles. This would be accompanied by her best dainty China cups and saucers with matching plates. A variety of small fairy cakes and scones would then be presented on an afternoon tea cake stand. They would then gently position their morsel of choice in the centre of a doily and desperately refrain from wolfing it down in one go.
One could be forgiven for thinking that we may have been in some very posh suburb of Dublin or in a grand country home but all this occurred in Crumlin and I witnessed similar scenes in the three bedroom semi-detached on the Glasnevin/Finglas border where I grew up.
So I had always associated Hunting scenes with gentry and privilege. Over the last week I visited two events to try capture a sense of these occasions and discovered that nothing could be further from the truth.
Farmers, long distance truck drivers, publicans and all sorts meet at a pub in Stamullen, Co Meath. At the back of the pub all one can hear is the hounds in full cry desperate to get some exercise. The trailer opens and they pour out. Horse boxes litter the village and are abandoned until their return. They tack up and head out en masse into a local field not knowing their path for the next 2-3 hours.
I find a local man who’s daughter is part of the hunt and he graciously agrees to take me along and attempt to follow them in his 4×4. He’s very familiar with the local countryside and anticipates their moves around the vast area with a good deal of success.
My first impression is one of frustration as I have no clue how to ride a horse and everyone seems to be having such great fun. For the first time in my life I regret not learning how to ride (despite being a lad from Finglas).
Btw, I didn’t see one dead fox. In fact, I’m told it’s more common for them to return foxless. The Hunt would appear to be much more fun than the kill. Jumping monster ditches and fences is the prize and the priority.
2. We can only hope Welsh will reprise his role as weaselly drug dealer Mikey Forrester; he has hinted as much on twitter. Russian sailors optional.
3. Set 20 years later and partially adapted from Welsh’s 2002 novel Porno, Mark Renton (McGregor) is back in Edinburgh to finally confront his friends after stealing £16,000 from them and fleeing to Amsterdam at the end of the first film. Sick Boy (Miller) and Spud (Bremner) are happy enough to see him, less so Begbie (Carlyle).
4. This feels like a good idea. Trainspotting launched the careers of its cast and director; reuniting exactly 20 years later feels distinctly uncynical. Less a cash-in than a genuine curiosity for them as much as the audience to learn what became of the characters.
5. Trainspotting 2 might have happened years ago, were it not for Boyle and McGregor falling out when the latter was passed over for the lead role in Boyle’s 2000 gap-year adventure The Beach. You dodged a bulled there Ewan, in fairness.
6. There are a quite a few visual references to the original in this trailer, and the remix of Renton’s iconic “Choose Life” monologue feels clunky. One would hope Boyle and co haven’t settled for a rehash. The only other sequel he has been involved in (as executive producer) was the excellent 28 Weeks Later (2007), and a rehash that most certainly was not.
7. On that note, Danny, how about you give us 28 Months Later next?
8. In a 2014 interview, Welsh called Boyle “a colossus”, saying “we’re all protective of the Trainspotting legacy and we want to make a film that adds to that legacy and doesn’t take away from it.”
9.Similarly Robert Carlyle told NME last year it’s one of the best scripts he’s ever read.
“This will be an emotional experience for people. [..] That’s really what the whole thing is about. Have these four characters changed? Have they remained the same? Have they f****d it up completely? Have they achieved anything? And of course the audience are going to be asking themselves exactly the same questions.”
Verdict: Let’s skip the garlic bread and proceed directly to January 27, 2017 (release date).
A deftly edited montage by Beyond The Frame celebrating the shared universe of Quentin Tarantino’s various films. To wit:
Everything’s connected. There are two universes shared by Tarantino’s characters. Everyone’s related, but unlike real families they talk to each other on the phone. They all eat Big Kahuna Burgers and smoke Red Apples, but somehow seem fit. K-Billy. Records scratching. Shots from trunks.
