Irish actor Cillian Murphy will star alongside Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman in Wally Pfister's “Transcendence,” a film about a scientist whose brain is uploaded to a supercomputer in order to create a thinking machine.  Depp will play the scientist and it is reported by the Irish Independent that Murphy will be one of the other two male leads. 

In Red Lights, the chilling new psychological thriller starring Cillian Murphy, the 36-year-old Cork-born actor is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go head to head with two cinema legends, Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver.

Cork native and Hollywood heavyhitter Cillian Murphy manages to remain endearingly modest in the company of such recent costars as Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver. Murphy, 36, worked with the acting vets on his latest project, ‘Red Lights.’

The Landmark Productions and Galway Arts Festival production of Enda Walsh’s play, “Misterman” starring Cillian Murphy, won two awards at the Irish Times Theatre Awards on Sunday night.

Red Lights, the new paranormal thriller starring Cillian Murphy and Elizabeth Olsen, debuted to strong word of mouth at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday.

Irish history is like a giant loop tape that keeps replaying the same disastrous results, over and over. That’s one of the darker thoughts that might occur to you watching Enda Walsh’s entertaining play Misterman, which is now playing at the St. Anne’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.

The New York Times critic Ben Brantley has given a rave review to Cillian Murphy and Misterman the one man play he is starring in in Brooklyn.

As Raymond Leon, the Time Cop who pursues runaway fugitives Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried in the sci-fi thriller In Time (opening nationwide today) Irish screen hunk Cillian Murphy is back in action on the big screen playing a terrifying avenging angel.

Who wants to live forever? That’s the question haunting every frame of In Time, the new sci-fi thriller that opens nationwide on Wednesday, October 26.

The Hollywood News website speculates that after accounts of Irish actor Cillian Murphy being seen on set, he will be resurrecting his role of Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow for Christopher Nolan’s third Batman installment ‘Dark Knight Rises.’

Cillian Murphy is set to tread the boards in New York City this year in the critically acclaimed hit play “Misterman”. The play written by Enda Walsh is set to transfer to New York’s St Ann’s Warehouse later this year as part of Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland’s year of Irish arts in America.

Cillian Murphy is set to star in the new Irish directed thriller, ‘Wayfaring Strangers’.

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It’s still early in 2011, but so far the Irish newcomer of the year has to be Colin O’Donoghue. The Drogheda native starred alongside Anthony Hopkins in the Exorcist-style thriller The Rite, which should be out on DVD soon. It was O’Donoghue’s film debut, and though some critics were a bit rough on the film, The Rite spent a week as the number one movie in America in January. O’Donoghue, 30, had previously starred (alongside fellow Irish thespian Jonathan Rhys Meyers) in the Showtime drama The Tudors. Prior to that, O’Donoghue had simply done theater work and television shows for Ireland’s TV network RTE. With his performance in The Rite (which also stars Irish screen veteran Ciaran Hinds), O’Donoghue certainly opened some eyes and set himself up for an interesting career. What’s next for O’Donoghue? He’s playing things coy. “I’ve got something else in the works,” he told About.com. “But I can’t talk about it.”

Cillian Murphy is set to star in, director, Rodrigo Cortes’ next movie “Red Light”.

Irish actor Cillian Murphy is in Wales this week shooting a psychological thriller “Retreat” alongside Thandie Newton and Jamie Bell.

Cillian Murhpy is set to join the cast of a new sci-fi drama “I’m.mortal”.

Cillian Murphy is set to star alongside Thandie Newton in a new island thriller called “The Retreat.”

In Inception, the hotly anticipated new thriller opening this week, Irish actor Cillian Murphy plays the kidnapped son of a tycoon who has to confront his darkest fears. CAHIR O’DOHERTY talks to Murphy about working with Hollywood’s golden boys, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and director Christopher Nolan.
 
Cillian Murphy is arguably the most consistently impressive screen actor that Ireland has produced. He’d deny it if you said so (he’s from Cork after all), but in a career that sees him alternating between low budget independent hits and multimillion dollar blockbusters, he has yet to put a foot wrong. 

An Oscar has never been awarded to a film that went straight from the cameras onto DVD shelves, but if a leading Hollywood producer has his way, Cillian Murphy might just buck that rule.