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‘Kiss of the Con Queen’ Secures Asia Distribution, Manufacturing Expands

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Filming has begun on Tom Waller’s true-crime thriller, “Kiss of the Con Queen,” with real-life sufferer Eoin O’Brien (“The Final Full Measure”) taking the lead position. He performs actor duped by an impersonator to journey to Indonesia on the promise of auditions for a number one position in a DC origins collection, solely to find that he had been scammed by the notorious Con Queen of Hollywood.

In the actual world, the alleged perpetrator, 41-year-old Indonesian meals blogger Hargobind Tahilramani, is accused of pretending to be each female and male Hollywood executives and having swindled lots of of victims of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. He was arrested in 2020 after an FBI manhunt and is at present in jail within the U.Ok. the place he’s combating in opposition to doable extradition to the U.S. The U.Ok. court docket hearings have been dramatic and disturbing.

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A bit of the filming on Waller’s movie has already been accomplished in Bangkok at The Studio Park, Thailand and on location in Jakarta, Indonesia. The manufacturing subsequent strikes to Nashville, Tenn., this month after which Dublin, Eire.

Given the extent of curiosity within the undertaking in Asia, the place most of the alleged stings occurred, a number of distribution offers have been accomplished. Prima Cinema (Cinema XXI) has purchased “Con Queen” for Indonesia, having beforehand launched Waller’s “The Cave.” Westec Media will distribute in Cambodia. Movie Bangkok has rights in Thailand rights. Yaman Movies has Japan.

Ravi Patel (“Transformers,” “Meet the Patels”), who lately appeared within the collection “Animal Management” for Fox, performs the fraudster. Supporting forged contains veteran Indonesian actor Yayu Unru (“Jamojaya” “The Final of Us”) and rap artist Nay Myo “Day” Thant (“Elephant White,” “The Girl”).

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Waller directs via his manufacturing firm De Warrenne Footage, with backing from Thailand’s Tero Leisure. The undertaking was introduced at TIFFCOM’s Tokyo Hole-Financing Market (TGFM) final October.

The alleged scams noticed victims lured to Jakarta by an imposter posing as Hollywood executives, similar to Kathleen Kennedy, Deborah Snyder and Amy Pascal, to display check for roles in upcoming film initiatives. As soon as they have been within the metropolis, Tahilramani is alleged to have used native accomplices to assist persuade victims into paying for pretend filming permits and different bills, on the promise of reimbursement by the Hollywood studios.

Producers are Takahiro Yamashita (“Gensan Punch,” “December”) for Yaman, with Waller and Michael Pritchett (“Mindfulness and Homicide,” “The Final Executioner”) producing for De Warrenne. Co-producers are Didier Costet and Robby Ertanto. Co-executive producers are Michael Chai, Loy Te and Jeffrey M. Hawkins. Government producers are Yoshi, Brian L. Marcar and O’Brien. The DP is Wade Muller and the manufacturing designer is Pongnarin Jonghawklang, who each labored on “The Cave.”

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