Overview

• California Schemin’ will bow at the Toronto Film Festival with its world premiere set for early September.
• Studiocanal holds UK and Ireland rights, while Bankside Films is shopping international deals in Toronto and UTA Independent Film Group is handling North America.
• Six weeks before filming, roughly $2 million in financing collapsed, leading key team members to defer pay so production could proceed.
• McAvoy describes severe stress during the six‑week shoot, including sleepless nights, headaches from jaw tension, and a doctor’s visit when he and lead actor Séamus McLeen Ross suffered gastroenteritis.
• The film adapts Gavin Bain’s memoir about Silibil N’ Brains; McAvoy appears as a record‑label boss and secured a James Corden cameo tied to funding needs.