{"id":621576,"date":"2025-12-09T06:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/621576\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T06:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:05:13","slug":"james-mcavoy-directorial-debut-california-schemin-to-close-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/621576\/","title":{"rendered":"James McAvoy Directorial Debut &#8216;California Schemin&#8221; to Close Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/james-mcavoy-speak-no-evil-ending-1236000890\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James McAvoy\u2019s<\/a> directorial debut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/james-mcavoy-california-schemin-1236352115\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Schemin\u2019<\/a> will have its U.K. premiere as the closing gala of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/glasgow-film-festival-2026-truth-power-retrospective-sweden-1236423199\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow Film\u00a0Festival 2026<\/a> on March 8, organizers unveiled on Tuesday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Based on an \u201cimprobably true story,:\u00a0California Schemin\u2019\u00a0follows aspiring Scottish rap duo Silibil N\u2019\u00a0Brains, a.k.a. Gavin Bain (S\u00e9amus McLean Ross) and Billy Boyd (Samuel Bottomley), as they devise\u00a0an audacious scheme to achieve their dream of a record deal by posing as Californian hip hop\u00a0artists. \u201cAs fame beckons and the lies pile up, their lifelong friendship is put to the test,\u201d reads a synopsis for the movie. \u201cRooted in the\u00a0rap scene of the early 2000s,\u00a0California Schemin\u2019\u00a0was shot in locations around Scotland, including\u00a0Silibil N\u2019 Brains\u2019 home city of Dundee and Glasgow\u2019s iconic music venue, the Barrowlands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California Schemin\u2019\u00a0will be\u00a0released in U.K. and Irish cinemas by StudioCanal on April 10. It was produced by Danny Page at Glasgow-based production company Blazing\u00a0Griffin and supported by The National Lottery through Screen Scotland\u2019s Film Development and\u00a0Production Fund. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a proud Glaswegian, I\u2019m delighted to be premiering\u00a0California Schemin\u2019\u00a0as the closing night gala\u00a0of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/glasgow-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_glasgow-film-festival_1\" data-tag=\"glasgow-film-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow Film Festival<\/a>,\u201d said McAvoy. \u201cWe made our film in Glasgow and Dundee with the support of a phenomenal Scottish cast and\u00a0crew, so it feels fitting that we bring it back home for its U.K. premiere. He concluded:\u00a0\u201cCalifornia Schemin\u2019\u00a0is an unbelievable true story about identity, ambition, fame and how much\u00a0you\u2019re willing to sacrifice to get it. It\u2019s a wild story, and I can\u2019t wait to share the film with festival\u00a0audiences in March.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Glasgow festival runs Feb. 25-March 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled that we will close GFF26 with the U.K. premiere of a homegrown story that fully deserves\u00a0its place on the world stage,\u201d said Paul Gallagher, Glasgow Film Festival head of program. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/james-mcavoy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-mcavoy_1\" data-tag=\"james-mcavoy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James McAvoy<\/a> has poured his heart and soul into making\u00a0California\u00a0Schemin\u2019, and the results are right there on the screen; this is a film of huge emotions, hilarious\u00a0characters, firecracker performances and a Barrowlands-set finale that blows the roof off. Mark your\u00a0diaries, this is one party you won\u2019t want to miss.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James McAvoy\u2019s directorial debut California Schemin\u2019 will have its U.K. premiere as the closing gala of the Glasgow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,193360,4884,522,69932,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-621576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-glasgow-film-festival","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-international","13":"tag-james-mcavoy","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}