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The son of murdered French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier and Ireland’s Olympic heroes will be among the first guests on the new series of The Late Late Show, EVOKE can reveal.

Jim Sheridan has dispelled rumors around a possible return to acting by Daniel Day-Lewis, who gave an Oscar-winning performance in the Irish director’s drama My Left Foot and also starred in his subsequent films In The Name Of The Father and The Boxer.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Upscale crossover sales agent Latido Films has acquired international sales rights to “Re-creation,” directed by legendary Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan, whose “In the Name of the Father” won a Berlin Golden Bear in 1994. Starring Vicky Krieps, a Cannes’ Un Certain Regard winner for “Corsage,” the docu-drama is co-written and co-directed by Irish artist and filmmaker David Merriman (“Rock Against Homelessness”). It will be unveiled to buyers at the European Film Market.

A Manchester-born freelance journalist who was the main suspect in the murder of French producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier has died in Cork, Ireland, his solicitor has revealed.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Vicky Krieps, best performance prize winner in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard for “Corsage,” will star as Sophie Toscan du Plantier in six time-Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s “Re-creation,” which is being presented in the Venice Gap-Financing Market. The docu-drama, which centers on the brutal murder in 1996 in Ireland of French film and TV producer Toscan du Plantier, has been co-written and will be co-directed by Sheridan, best known for “My Left Foot” and “In the Name of the Father,” and Merriman.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The Venice Gap-Financing Market is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this year with record-breaking attendance and impressive new figures on the projects that the core component of Venice’s industry side has helped bring to the big screen. All told, over the span of a decade, “We have had 370 films (including immersive) from 70 countries and 80% of them have been completed within six months after the festival,” says Pascal Diot who heads the Venice Production Bridge, as the Lido’s market is known.

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s brutal murder, light has once again been shone on the case. Jim Sheridan’s documentary Murder at the Cottage and Netflix’s Sophie: A Murder in West Cork both aired just weeks apart.

Jim Sheridan has said he offered his acclaimed documentary series on Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder to RTÉ and Virgin Media — but both turned him down.

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Netflix will not remove interviews with Ian Bailey from its Sophie Toscan du Plantier documentary despite repeated requests from the journalist it has emerged.

The brother of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier has recalled the agonising moment his sister’s neighbour confirmed she had been found beaten to death near an isolated house in West Cork.

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Ian Bailey has threatened to sue Netflix ahead of its upcoming series about the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

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Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s death, two documentaries are set to air, one on Sky and another on Netflix, and will land on their respective platforms just days apart.

Ian Bailey has hit out at the Netflix documentary on Sophie Toscan du Plantier comparing the streaming site to vultures ‘trying to feed off my carcass.’

Ireland knows the devastating case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier all too well. However, the rest of the world will be introduced to the case as a slew of documentaries are set to come out.

Armchair sleuths have been pouring over Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s chilling murder since the release of the phenomenally successful West Cork podcast series.

Ireland knows the devastating case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier all too well. However, the rest of the world will be introduced to the case as a slew of documentaries are set to come out.

Jim Sheridan, the six-time Oscar nominee known for films including My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, is set to make his documentary series debut with Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie, a five-parter examining the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork in 1996.

Netflix will also air a new three-part documentary series about the life and murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier next year.The series is being made in collaboration with the du Plantier’s family and will feature their testimony as well as that of Ian Bailey.Simon Chinn, co-Founder of Lightbox and Executive Producer said: ‘This series will take viewers on a journey filled with unexpected twists and turns as we carefully unravel an extraordinary story from its beginning, 24 years ago, to the

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Atresmedia commissions a Spanish version of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” trailer drops, Lightbox will produced a three-part docu-series about  Sophie Toscan du Plantier for Netflix, Hardcash announces a new coronavirus doc for ITV, and the Seville and Zagreb festivals announce their 2020 winners.¡Hola Hola Hola! Media company World of Wonder is teaming with Spanish broadcaster Atresmedia and production company Buendía Estudios on “Dr

Naman Ramachandran Six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan (“My Left Foot,” “In the Name of the Father”) is to make his documentary series debut with “Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie.”The five-part series examines the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork, Ireland in 1996.In 1996, two days before Christmas, Sophie, the wife of French filmmaker Daniel Toscan du Plantier, was murdered at her holiday cottage in Schull, West Cork.

The West Cork podcast is one of the most successful crime podcasts in recent years.