Movie finance boss: Major productions in Ireland will double

Major rise in activity driven by hunger for content from streamers such as Apple, Disney and Netflix as government moves on budget funding promises

John Gleeson, head of the Irish operations of film and TV finance house Saffery Champness;

The Irish boss of Hollywood’s go-to film and TV finance adviser is predicting a doubling of big-ticket productions made here in the next few years.

John Gleeson leads the newly launched Dublin office of Saffery Champness, which handles some 70 per cent of the global film and TV market and helped to finance major productions such as Game of Thrones and Star Wars.

“Our prediction would be that the volume of high-end television ...