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Exclusive: Irish producer McKimm’s credits include My Name Is Emily and 1,000 Times Good Night.

The Irish Film Board (Ifb) has appointed Lesley McKimm as project manager in the outfit’s production and development team.

In the role, McKimm will manage part of the Ifb’s slate of supported projects across all genres from initial development stage through financing and market exploitation.

Boasting 25 years’ experience in the independent film and TV industry, McKimm has worked as a producer on feature films including Simon Fitzmaurice’s drama My Name Is Emily, Frankie Fenton’s documentary It’s Not Yet Dark, and as a co-producer on Erik Poppe’s war drama 1,000 Times Good Night.

Her TV credits include Ifta-winning mini-series Whistleblower and Dublin-set comedy-drama Any Time Now for the BBC.

McKimm will be taking up her new position alongside incumbent project managers Keith Potter and Mary Callery.

She is also a founding member of Women in Film & TV Ireland...

Despite its seemingly kiddie-friendly name, the new film Jay and Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie is not suitable for children — unless they’re very young. “You can sit down with a child that doesn’t perceive vulgarity and that child will totally delight in it, because it’s colorful to look at,” says director and prolific podcaster Kevin Smith, who wrote the film. “But if that child understands content at all, you’re going to have a lot of explaining to do.”

In the animated movie, which is available on VOD starting May 6, the much-beloved, Smith-created characters of...

Books: They’re just like movies, only without CGI.

So it’s no wonder that over the past century, Hollywood has consistently turned to books to provide the basis for some of its best works. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” for instance, was based on a book, while “Gigli” wasn’t. See how that works?

With that in mind, then, we decided to put together a sneak peak of all the coolest books currently being turned into major motion pictures (like “The Help,” left). Because these days, the best library you can go to is your local Cineplex.

‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’

Attached: Georgie Henley, Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Liam Neeson

Status: The third book from the classic C. S. Lewis series to make it to the big screen, “Voyage of the Dawn Treader” has flown a bit under the radar thanks to the media...

Robert Quinn, the only Irish director involved with the fourth season of the sci-fi caper, 'Primeval' currently in production in Ireland recently spoke with Iftn from the set of the popular sci-fi series. Award winning director of programmes such as 'Na Cloigne', 'Seacht' and 'Rasai na Gaillimhe', Robert is currently in the process of shooting the 5th and 6th episode of the show's fourth series. Robert is one of the large Irish crew working on the series alongside new Irish cast members including Ifta nominee Ciarán McMenamin (Any Time Now, Hunger), Ruth Kearney (Shark City, Hard Boiled Eggs), Peter Hanley (Braveheart), Rory Keenan (The Guard) and Briain Gleeson (Single Handed).

From trashing the Terminator to praising the baboon – here's a selection of the stories you chose as your favourite in 2009

Anything by Lucy Mangan, because of the hooting hilarity that invariably ensues (Wookey Hole wants to hire a witch. Well, I can cackle ... G2 shortcuts, 9 July) – Sadie Clifford, Stockport

The greatest named place in Britain is inviting applicants for possibly the country's greatest job – to become the modern-day counterpart to the legendary witch of Wookey Hole.

The Somerset caves have long been home to a witch turned to stone in the middle ages by a Benedictine monk with a flair for that kind of thing called Father Bernard. Now, however, the popular tourist attraction is in need of someone with a wider skill set than that possessed by the average vaguely person-shaped rocky outcropping, and is advertising for a living witch to take up residence in the caves at weekends,...