Samuel Bottomley and Séamus McLean Ross were "cooked" filming their performance scenes over and over again for California Schemin'. In the biographical comedy-drama, directed by James McAvoy, the ...

James McAvoy inspired his California Schemin' stars Samuel Bottomley and Séamus McLean Ross to raise their game just with his presence on set. In the Split actor's feature directorial debut, Bottomley ...

The crazy true tale about a Scottish rap duo that posed as Californian hip-hop artists will premiere in Toronto. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Zurich will host the European premiere of ...

The "proud Glaswegian" is bringing the U.K. premiere of the movie, based on the true story of a Scottish rap duo posing as Californian hip hop artists, to the Scottish festival in March. By Georg ...

James McAvoy has launched the new phase of his career with his directorial debut, the scrappy and suitably Scottish California Schemin’. Based on one of those wild but-it-actually-happened true ...

Back in the early 2000s, a pair of blue-eyed Scottish lads with dreams of becoming the next Eminem - but dismissed as sounding like "the rapping Proclaimers" - proceeded to pass themselves off as ...

James McAvoy can’t point to a single director whose example he followed with his directorial debut “California Schemin‘.” Rather, it’s been more than a quarter-century of watching various directors ...

James McAvoy makes his directorial debut with music biopic California Schemin’. The film is based on the true story of Scottish rappers Billy Boyd and Gavin Bain, who pretended to be American for ...

You would be forgiven if you weren’t immediately familiar with the songs of the rap band known as Silibil N’ Brains. The duo never made it to the top of the charts, nor did they tour around the world ...