Exclusive: Real-life ‘Catch Me If You Can’ drama being developed by ’71 producer Angus Lamont.
British TV director Brian Kelly is to make his feature film debut with Other People’s Money, the true story of a young con man who lived a first class lifestyle through credit card scams.
Kelly, who has directed episodes of Downton Abbey, NBC drama series Dracula and upcoming Starz series Outlander, is newly attached to the project, which is currently in development with Crab Apple Films’ Angus Lamont, producer of Yann Demange’s upcoming thriller ’71.
The development has been financed by BBC Scotland and Creative Scotland.
Neil Forsyth wrote the book, first published in 2008, with former con man Elliot Castro.
Castro was a working-class teenager in Scotland when he worked out how to use the credit card system to his advantage. Identifying banks’ security flaws, he went on a spending spree from London and New York to Ibiza and Beverly Hills, living...
British TV director Brian Kelly is to make his feature film debut with Other People’s Money, the true story of a young con man who lived a first class lifestyle through credit card scams.
Kelly, who has directed episodes of Downton Abbey, NBC drama series Dracula and upcoming Starz series Outlander, is newly attached to the project, which is currently in development with Crab Apple Films’ Angus Lamont, producer of Yann Demange’s upcoming thriller ’71.
The development has been financed by BBC Scotland and Creative Scotland.
Neil Forsyth wrote the book, first published in 2008, with former con man Elliot Castro.
Castro was a working-class teenager in Scotland when he worked out how to use the credit card system to his advantage. Identifying banks’ security flaws, he went on a spending spree from London and New York to Ibiza and Beverly Hills, living...
- 7/29/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
London, July 14: James McAvoy has gone from X-Men to X-Rated, as he takes on the raunchiest movie role of his career in new movie 'Filth'.
Jon S. Baird, the director of the hotly anticipated movie, said that McAvoy had no reservations about taking on the sex-fuelled script, the Sun reported.
McAvoy gets plenty of action in the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's hit novel, romping on-screen with Bob Servant Independent babe Pollyanna McIntosh, Trainspotting's Shirley Henderson and Red Road actress Kate Dickie.
The raunchy scenes are almost identical to those in Welsh's last big-screen sensation Trainspotting, involving.
Jon S. Baird, the director of the hotly anticipated movie, said that McAvoy had no reservations about taking on the sex-fuelled script, the Sun reported.
McAvoy gets plenty of action in the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's hit novel, romping on-screen with Bob Servant Independent babe Pollyanna McIntosh, Trainspotting's Shirley Henderson and Red Road actress Kate Dickie.
The raunchy scenes are almost identical to those in Welsh's last big-screen sensation Trainspotting, involving.
- 7/14/2013
- by Meeta Kabra
- RealBollywood.com
Currently in production and flying the flag for cream of the crop independent horror is Simeon Halligan's White Settlers, starring genre fave Pollyanna Mcintosh – with whom most of you are more than likely familiar due to her spectacular performance in the titular role in Lucky Mckee's The Woman.
Also starring fellow up-and-coming British talent Lee Williams ("The Tudors") and produced by the people behind Manchester horror festival Grimmfest, not to mention penned by BAFTA nominated writer Ian Fenton, White Settlers looks like it could be the much awaited breath of life that British horror needs.
While working on set, Pollyanna was gracious enough to take some time to speak with us between takes and let us all know what horrors lie in store in this tale of a young couple trying for an idyllic life in the country that soon find themselves besieged by unspeakable terrors...
Aaron Williams...
Also starring fellow up-and-coming British talent Lee Williams ("The Tudors") and produced by the people behind Manchester horror festival Grimmfest, not to mention penned by BAFTA nominated writer Ian Fenton, White Settlers looks like it could be the much awaited breath of life that British horror needs.
While working on set, Pollyanna was gracious enough to take some time to speak with us between takes and let us all know what horrors lie in store in this tale of a young couple trying for an idyllic life in the country that soon find themselves besieged by unspeakable terrors...
Aaron Williams...
- 7/5/2013
- by Aaron Williams
- DreadCentral.com
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