Kneecap - New Footage *Read OP for Mod Warning*

I've been feckin' Googling all morning, on Wike, Instagram and every other thing I could think of and I couldn't find any instance of a flag starving any children or blowing their legs off. Maybe you could try as I haven't had any luck?

Yep. Point out the legal inaccuracies. Pretty please.

Free Palestine! Crowd entirely in support.

The message the UK, US and Israeli administrations don't want to see.

The digs against kneecap are largely pathetic at this stage.

They have a huge support and burying your heads in the sand, saying, "No they don't" or "The film was a flop" or "This is just a publicity stunt to make them more successful" is really pathetic.

Well done Kneecap. Great to see people stick to their guns*.

*Metaphorical, before I'm accused of supporting violent means or whatever.

Dear god how in the fùck did they spend 4.5m?

I know the film industry can be a bit murky at times but its not like its was CGI heavy and Fassbender aside it wasn't full of talented actors/crew.

Do you have a list of other movies / TV shows funded by UK public funds and how they did at the box office? Did the movie / TV makers return any of the money?

Sure but with Anora you can see filming in Las Vegas and Brooklyn plus the mansion rented for I think two weeks would have ate up budget not to mention better filming equipment being used. The cost of filming between America and Belfast is radically different. You can easily understand where the money went for Anora but not Kneecap.

My problem was not with the funding they reviewed. But how certain posters on here would be only too quick to omit that fact. Instead focusing on how Kneecsp gave away 14,500 sterling the value of their arts grant. As if it was some grand gesture. Showing “action”.

Also I would surmise that the Labour government did not further contest the arts grant case, because it would give Kneecap more oxygen of publicity. Which is what Kneecap really crave in my opinion. Whether it is good/bad.

I just read that soup of words disguised as an article. No links anywhere to back up, and also plain doesn't make sense.

Look at it, and tell me it doesn't have a bias against the group:

The heavily state-funded film (why is this important? Most Irish films made in Ireland are) Kneecap the Movie – which largely launched the controversial rap band of the same name (No, it didn't, they were already selling out the Point) – has recorded a whopping loss of €3.6 million, despite €3m government funding from state bodies and other agencies north and south of the border, Extra.ie can exclusively reveal.

Kneecap the Movie premiered in 2024, and while the film won a plethora of awards, the producers failed to turn the plaudits into profits.

The movie was brought to the screen by acclaimed producer Trevor Birney, who is listed as a co-director of the UK-registered company, Kneecap the Movie.

The company was set up in 2023 (This is how films are made. Companies are set up to make movies, in case they don't make money, so the producers aren't personally held financially responsible if they can't pay back debts), but despite being the director’s choice film at the Sundance Film Festival, the financial picture for the flick looks pretty bleak.

The most recent accounts for Kneecap the Movie show the firm is running at a substantial loss amounting to £3,134,704 (€3,683.051). (Where is this person getting their info from?)

The accounts further show that the company has creditors totalling €3,318,399 (Is she saying this is ON TOP of the creditors that were paid back a minimum of €3,683.051? Her point just doesnt make sense), and the firm has a cash amount of just £2,092 in the bank.

The significant losses incurred by the company are surprising giving the largesse afforded the film in terms of millions in government grants and funding from various other sources. 

In fact, Kneecap the Movie benefited from grants of some €3 million, including £810,000 (€951,078) from the UK National Lottery; £805,000 (€945,211) from the British Film Institute and almost €1 million in grants from the Irish Government. (She already said this above, must be getting paid by word count)

The rappers from Belfast are at the centre of an international storm of controversy over their alleged chants of ‘Up Hamas’ and ‘Up Hezbollah’, both designated terrorist organisations and chants of ‘Kill your local MP’ and the ‘Only good Tory is a dead Tory’ at UK concerts. They also accused the US and Israel of complicity in genocide at Coachella, leading calls for their US visas to be revoked ahead of their October US tour.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer now said there will be no more funding from the UK. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called for the band to be prosecuted after one of them called for the deaths of Tory MPs as UK police counter terrorism police assess the footage.

Yeah, this article is utter bull.

The person who put these words together has no idea how movie finance in general and in particular in this country works.

What factors make filming in Belfast cheaper than US cities? Equipment, crew, actors, publicity, distribution and advertising costs don't really differ. Anora and Kneecap had similar costs including going to Sundance and advertising in the same markets. Fassbender would have taken a much lower fee.

It wasn’t true altruism though. It was playing to the gallery to people like yourself. I must admit I thought it was a very clever move. They can claim to be “cross community” while giving two fingers to the British government.

However, unlike that performative gesture - which worked well. They did work the PR well in their recent “apology” on x. Read in full it was laced with insincerity, and they even tried to frame themselves as “victims”.

Which again plays well with Republican strongholds as everyone knows Republicans love a victim/martyr complex. A moral victory in defeat etc.

To me I just view kneecap as chancers. And half back trackers. With no real sincerity or principles. And no real integrity. A novelty act, whose hype outweighs their actual artistic output.

And you're wrong on all accounts.

Their community is where they live. They hate England and they hate the British Government. But unionists and young unionists especially (Those born after the GFA) are their mates and their community. That's why they support them.

I don't use X, the only apology I'm aware of was to the families of the dead MP's. Again, that was a genuine apology. It's on you (and the families) whether to accept it or not. The band only have the power to apologise.

Was there another one?

Another ridiculous comment - Hezbollah, the murdering bastards and child rapists which that very flag represents, have done plenty wrong and you know it- and your continued distraction attempts don’t change that.
Considering you’re using the same tactics Kneecap have done- in other words absolutely no justification for doing and saying what they did- I actually hope he does get a conviction- a simple apology or admittance that it was iljudged would have done - but no, we get this rubbish in reply- I’m done with this sh01te- if he gets a conviction he deserves it

Do you ever take a step back and read your posts?

Israel have blocked aid & food for weeks.

Israel have bombed hospitals.

Israel have shot journalists.

Every day more children end the day as orphans with no brothers and sisters.

Just last week Israel shot at Irish diplomats.

Do you not see what Israel are doing is incredibly counter-productive UNLESS the objective is to wipe out the Palestinian people as a whole. Do you think that Israel will magically announce that Hezbollah & Hamas are no more, and the couple of thousand Palestinians left can have a town to themselves? Do you think those children who's families were eradicated by Israel won't grow up with anger and hate in their heart?

But yeah, f*ck that Irish guy for waving a flag, if he goes to prison for taking a stand against the above, he deserves it?

Millions of people in Africa are close to dying of starvation every year - there’s approaching 20k people in Ireland homeless or in temporary accommodation - all of that is true as indeed are all the things you have said around the atrocities - doesn’t change the fact the lad done wrong - if I were your neighbour and flew a UVF flag in my front garden you’d be the very person to snitch to the guards so less of this high and mighty rubbish - the law is the law- tell me, what other crimes would you let kneecap away with just because they’re shouting free Palestine?