Martin Sheen in 'Stella Days,' Fethard.

Three Irish movies are now set to do battle at the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTA), having obtaining nine nominations each. The films nominated are the period piece “Albert Nobbs,” the Tipperary rural drama “Stella Days,” and the excellent black comedy “The Guard.”

All three will now go ‘head to head,’ with results promised at a showbiz ceremony on the 11th of next month, at the Convention Centre in Dublin.

All three movies indeed warrant recognition and all demonstrate the professionalism of our small but talented Irish film industry, which in recent years, despite our economic problems, have achieved world recognition for their talent.

Actors nominated for a lead role are Martin Sheen for his role as an Irish priest in “Stella Days,” and a man, Thurles rightly regards as a native son, (my own personal favourite) Brendan Gleeson, for his role as a member of the Gardaí in “The Guard.” Co-star Marcella Plunkett has also been nominated for her part in “Stella Days.”

But it’s “Stella Days,” adapted from the book penned by Borrisokane, Co.Tipperary native, Michael Doorley, Tipperary will be particularly interested in. Its success should be good for Tourism in Co. Tipperary, since it was filmed here in the small South Tipperary rural town of Fethard and indeed  actor Martin Sheen’s late mother Mary Ann Phelan originally hailed from Kilbarron, near Borrisocane in the North of the County.

Thurles Town also contributed to “Stella Days,” with the much loved local Thurles Bóthar na Naomh (Tran: Road of the Saints) Church Choir featuring in the film.

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UPDATE: Prices updated to reflect 2012 prices.

IMC Cinema Thurles is situated at Thurles Shopping Centre, Slievenamon Rd, Thurles, Co.Tipperary, beside Dunnes Stores. The Irish Multiplex Cinema(IMC) in Thurles has 5 state of the art Digital cinema screens. To see what movies are on at the moment, please visit the IMC Thurles website.

Phone:- 0504 – 26422

E-Mail:- thurles@imccinemagroup.com

Opening Hours:- Mon-Fri 1:00pm / Sat-Sun 12:00pm

Current Movies Showing:- http://www.imccinemas.ie/home.asp?idcinema=32

Facilities include:- Box Office, Concessions, Concessions Self-Service, Ticketing Self-Service, Games Area, Free/Discount Parking, Fully Digital Cinema, Wheelchair Accessible and  Loop System.

Admission Prices

Type of ticket                                  Regular     3D Price

Adult Before 6:00pm:-                       €6.20      €7.20
Adult After 6:00pm:-                         €8.20      €9.20
Unemployed Rate:                              €3.80       €4.80
Child all day:-                                       €5.30       €6.30
Family Ticket* before 6:00pm:-       €19.20    €23.00
Family Ticket* after 6:00pm:-          €23.00   €27.00
OAP & Student all day:-                      €5.80     €6.80
Student Tuesday:-                                €4.30     €5.30
Kids Club Sat/Sun only:-                     €3.30     €4.30

*( 2 adults and 2 children/1 adult 3 children)

Ask management about special concessions for Groups, Schools, and their ‘Corporate Rates’.

Family Meal Deal:- Large Popcorn + 2 medium drinks + 2 kids meals all for the recession busting price of €14.20.

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UPDATE! The IMC Cinema is now open! To see cinema times, pricing and facilities offered by the IMC Cinema in Thurles, please visit our latest article here.

April 9th next, will see the opening of the new five screen IMC Cinema in Thurles, situated at the newly revamped Thurles Shopping Centre

Irish Multiplex Cinemas (IMC), one of Ireland’s leading innovators in the film entertainment business, and RealD, the world’s leading outfitter of 3D-enabled theatres, announced today that IMC will add RealD 3D capabilities to this multiplex location in Thurles. The rollout will begin immediately with completion of all RealD 3D installations expected in April in time for the release of Monsters vs. Aliens (Dreamworks Animation).

Paul Ward, director of IMC said,

“The RealD 3D technology being installed in all IMC Cinemas shows IMC’s commitment to providing not only the best in customer service, but also the best customer enjoyment of the cinema going experience by the early introduction of the newest technological advances available.”

Bob Mayson, managing director of RealD Europe Ltd. said,

“Ireland is an important market for us in Europe and we’re extremely pleased to be working with IMC to outfit all of their multiplex locations. Paul Ward and his team understand the potential of RealD 3D and are grasping the opportunity with both hands.”

RealD  uses a single projector that alternately projects the right-eye frame and left-eye frame, and circularly polarizes these frames, clockwise for the right eye and counter clockwise for the left eye, using a liquid crystal screen placed in front of the projector lens. Circularly polarized glasses make sure each eye sees only “its own” picture, even if the head is tilted.  The very high frame rate, which is 72 frames per second per eye, makes sure the image looks continuous. In RealD Cinema, each frame is projected three times to reduce flicker.

RealD’s next-generation technology is deployed across the world’s largest 3D platform in more than 34 countries with over 8,000 screens under contract and nearly 2,600 RealD 3D screens today. RealD is the global leader in 3D, bringing the most advanced and realistic digital 3D experience to cinemas worldwide.

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