THE GUARD is the Number 1 DVD in Ireland
THE GUARD DVD is Number 1 in the Irish DVD charts in a week where Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows II and The Hangover II were also released. This is the biggest opening for any DVD release in 2011, an incredible result for an independently produced film.
Speaking on this success, Head of Home Entertainment at Element Pictures Karen O'Malley commented "THE GUARD has firmly established itself as the must-have DVD this Christmas. This is a tremendous Irish success story as it outperforms all other Hollywood heavyweights and we are thrilled with the support from the Irish market."
THE GUARD, which has wowed critics and audiences alike this year, is directed by John Michael McDonagh and 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.
THE GUARD is an Irish/UK co-production, backed by 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.