Producer of feature starring Hollywood and UK talent guilty of £1.5m ($2.3m) fraud.
The producer and director of horror-musical Eldorado, starring former Dr Who Sylvester McCoy, Darryl Hannah, David Carradine and the voice of Peter O’Toole, has been found guilty of a £1.5m Vat fraud.
As reported by This is Cornwall, Southwark Crown Court heard on Tuesday how Richard Driscoll, who ran a studio in Redruth, Cornwall, falsified invoices for the costs of making Eldorado and two other films (Watchmen Hellgate and Back2Hell) in order to reclaim Vat and set up a number of associated companies that were used to commit the offences.
The claims for repayment of £1.5 million Vat was based on production costs of more than £9m ($14m) but investigators found that the costs were actually less than £1m ($1.6m).
Bogus invoices were sent to support the false repayment claims. Other invoices were genuine but had their values inflated.
La-based sales outfit...
The producer and director of horror-musical Eldorado, starring former Dr Who Sylvester McCoy, Darryl Hannah, David Carradine and the voice of Peter O’Toole, has been found guilty of a £1.5m Vat fraud.
As reported by This is Cornwall, Southwark Crown Court heard on Tuesday how Richard Driscoll, who ran a studio in Redruth, Cornwall, falsified invoices for the costs of making Eldorado and two other films (Watchmen Hellgate and Back2Hell) in order to reclaim Vat and set up a number of associated companies that were used to commit the offences.
The claims for repayment of £1.5 million Vat was based on production costs of more than £9m ($14m) but investigators found that the costs were actually less than £1m ($1.6m).
Bogus invoices were sent to support the false repayment claims. Other invoices were genuine but had their values inflated.
La-based sales outfit...
- 6/6/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Actor Michael Eklund, who appeared in Xavier Gen's awesome thriller 'The Divide', will be starring in Eron Sheean's unsettling new 'terrifying science fiction' tale 'Errors of the Human Body', which is set to premiere at this months Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. Bloody Disgusting have revealed a new science lab image from the production shot in Germany which you can view below. Sheean, who also penned 'The Divide', writes and directs this time around and the exciting sounding project co-stars Karoline Herfurth ('Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'), Tomas Lemarquis and Rik Mayall ('Drop Dead Fred', 'Evil Calls'). Head below for the image plus another couple of shots we previously missed....
- 7/5/2012
- Horror Asylum
A cross between Blade Runner, V for Vendetta and George Orwell's "1984," Watchmen of Hellgate is an ambitious U.K. 3D project that is currently in early production. The man behind the project is Welsh actor/director Richard Driscoll, whose credits include The Comic, Killer's Kiss, Kannibal and Evil Calls: The Raven. The film is being produced by Driscoll's production company, House of Fear.
While on the surface this seems like a cash in on the popularity of "Watchmen," Driscoll's story is more like "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in that it is an alternative history where Hitler won the war and features famous characters from other adventure stories(like Captain Nemo) coming together to fight the evil computerized version of Hitler.
Synopsis:
Watchmen Of Hellgate shows the aftermath of a world in which Hitler won the war. The year is 2084, the place is London and a new big brother is watching.
While on the surface this seems like a cash in on the popularity of "Watchmen," Driscoll's story is more like "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in that it is an alternative history where Hitler won the war and features famous characters from other adventure stories(like Captain Nemo) coming together to fight the evil computerized version of Hitler.
Synopsis:
Watchmen Of Hellgate shows the aftermath of a world in which Hitler won the war. The year is 2084, the place is London and a new big brother is watching.
- 2/18/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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