The Irish production firm behind Jamie Dornan's The Tourist TV thriller series has secured TV and movie corporation tax credits between €5m and €10m from the Revenue Commissioners, new figures show.
The figures show that the Irish producers of The Tourist Series 2, Metropolitan Films International Ltd, received the €5m to €10m in July of this year.
Series 2 features Dornan reprising his role as an amnesia-afflicted car crash victim struggling to piece together his past and Series 1 of the global TV hit has already featured on RTE and BBC.
Filming on Series 2 commenced in Dublin in April of this year.
The third quarterly Revenue figures also show a movie adaptation of acclaimed novelist Claire Keegan's bestseller "Small Things Like These", starring Oscar tipped Best Actor nominee Cillian Murphy, received between €2m to €5m in movie tax credits.
The movie - set in an Irish town at Christmas 1985 - is to also star Ciaran Hinds and Emily Watson.
Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy said earlier this year "I'm honoured and thrilled to have the opportunity to bring Claire Keegan’s magnificent novel to the screen."
A spokeswoman for Revenue said today that payments made under Section 481 of the Tax Consolidation Act to movie and TV production companies for the first nine months of this year total €104m.
The payout represents a 34% increase on the €77.5m paid out for the corresponding nine months of last year.
The spokeswoman explained that the totals provided for the nine months of this year and last year comprise a mixture of first instalment of claims and final balancing claims made on completion, and relate to projects certified over multiple years.
The quarterly figures published by Revenue also show that Keeper Pictures Ltd - formerly Blinder Films Ltd - received between €500,000 and €1m in tax credits for Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming in August of this year.
The figures also show that Salt Films Ltd received between €2m to €5m for the TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s best seller, Moonflower Murders.
Shinawil Ltd, making another production featuring Jamie Dornan, Borderline, received tax credits of between €2m to €5m last month.
In the action thriller, Dornan plays an IRA operative sent to London in the mid-1970s - the production company put out a call for extras to feature in the production where parts of the drama were shot in Dundalk.
The figures also show that Sackville Film and Television Productions Ltd, which is behind Series 2 of The Dry - starring Roisin Gallagher - received between €1m to €2m in tax credits in the last quarter.
The Revenue figures also show Port Pictures Ltd has received less than €500,000 for the movie adaptation of novelist Niall Williams's best seller "Four Letters of Love", starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne.
Last week as part of Budget 2024, the Government announced an expansion of the Sector 481 tax credit scheme.
Currently, the Section 481 credit offers a 32% corporation tax credit on qualifying expenditure for films or television productions made in Ireland, up to a limit of €70m per project.
That cap has now been raised to €125m and the change is expected to come into effect in early 2024.
Reporting by Gordon Deegan
