The Guard Continues Irish Box Office Success Ahead of Its UK Cinema Release
Irish feature THE GUARD continues to go from strength to strength with a gross box-office to date of over €3 million in Ireland and is strongly tipped to become the most successful Irish-made film ever.THE GUARD, directed by John Michael McDonagh is a comedy-thriller starring Brendan Gleeson as an unorthodox Irish policeman who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent, played by Don Cheadle, to take on an international drug-smuggling gang.
It is now well on its way to becoming one of the biggest film hits of the summer in Ireland, knocking off heavy-weight blockbuster films such as TRANSFORMERS, X-MEN, KUNG FU PANDA 2 and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN.
A hit at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and released in selected cinemas in the US last month, the film is expected to receive a wider release in the US where industry experts are predicting great success.
THE GUARD is an Irish/UK co-production, backed by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board and Section 481 as well as international financiers. It's produced by Chris Clark and Flora Fernandez Marengo for Reprisal Films and Ed Guiney (Garage) and Andrew Lowe (The Wind that Shakes the Barley) for Element Pictures.
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THE GUARD is released in the UK on August 19th