Laura Macbride: Last News

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Following the completion of its first feature film, Aylin Tezel’s “Falling Into Place” – which Global Screen has just acquired for sale at Cannes – Glasgow-based emerging indie Compact Pictures has optioned “The Pharmacist” for development. The novel, the debut by Scots-Egyptian author Rachelle Atalla, was chosen as a Sunday Times Book of the Week and nominated for the Scottish National Book Award. Laura McBride from Compact Pictures originally identified the book as a perfect story for the company. The project is moving into development with Atalla attached to adapt for the screen, with Compact hoping to secure interest in the film during its first outing to next week’s Cannes Film Market.

Bitcoin was kidnapped and bundled into a car by a gang who demanded £10,000 for his safe return.The terrified 14-year-old was confronted outside a takeaway in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on May 9.One of the kidnappers put his hand over the teen's mouth, as he was punched and forced into the back of a Toyota Auris, Yorkshire Live reports.