Saoirse Ronan was in Dublin last night for Barry McCall’s photography exhibition called “Pho20graphy” at the Copper House Gallery off Synge Street. Now he is the guy who has put together that photo book in aid of the ISPCC with shots of loads of celebrities including Jedward, Cillian Murphy, Louis Walsh, Michael Fassbender, the late David Kelly and loads more. If you want to check out the exhibition, it’s on until the 11th of June and you can view the photos online at www.thecopperhousegallery.com.

Barry McCall told 98FM Saoirse had been on his wish list. He took the shot about 2 years when Saoirse was 16 and had just done “The Lovely Bones”. He put the feelers out and eventually the producers came back and said “we got her”.

There is a fab photo of ISPCC ambassador Saoirse Ronan wearing a chainmail headpiece borrowed from Ardmore Studios.

We were hanging out with Saoirse although she said she was more interested in looking at the other photos on show than looking at her own face. Saoirse said “I don’t like looking at photos of myself but all the other photos look great”.

It’s been a hectic 6 months for Saoirse who has working pretty much non-stop with just a few days at home. She’s just turned 18 so how did she celebrate her birthday? Saoirse told 98FM “I worked. I was on set but it was great because the production hired a band and they had cupcakes and decorated the hair and make-up truck. It was amazing – it was a really, really brilliant day”

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Domestic distributors will have a wide variety of choices at Cannes this year, from completed films in competition, to packages that have begun production or are only at the script stage with loose commitments from filmmakers and stars. Most of the buyers I spoke to claim they are in no rush to bid up the joint, but the pace of buying usually depends on several variables.

Will Harvey be buying? Last year, Harvey Weinstein, coming off a Best Picture win for The King’s Speech, reloaded with awards caliber films that included eventual Best Picture winner The Artist, as well as The Iron Lady, Lawless (which is in competition) and the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed The Master. TWC preempted the festival buying the Dustin Hoffman-directed Quartet already. The Weinstein Company comes in with a full slate for 2012, as do distributors like Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics and Focus Features. But all are looking for 2013 product. Some other variables: will CBS Films, which made the big buy of last Toronto with Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, be aggressive here? They certainly took a step in that direction acquiring Ends of the Earth just before the festival began. FilmDistrict is back after restaffing its executive roster after the exits of Bob and Jeanne Berney; will Peter Schlessel’s division be as hungry for product as last year, when it acquired Looper? And how will upstart distributors like Mickey Liddell’s LD Entertainment factor into the mix as that company looks to fill the pipeline? The final variable will be the element of surprise: after unveiling their intention to make Inside Llewyn Davis with no domestic distributor, will Joel and Ethan Coen walk away from Cannes with a deal?

Here are the titles most often mentioned by distributors:

..BYZANTIUM–Director, Neil Jordan. Cast, Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan. A mother and daughter, both vampires, form a deadly pact.

HOW I LIVE NOW–Director, Kevin Macdonald. Cast, Saoirse Ronan. A 15 year New Yorker is sent for a summer with cousins in England, and falls in love with her cousin Edmund before their season is shattered by the outbreak of war.

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