Richard Currie

1 week ago | medium.com | Richard Currie

What’s the craziest incident you ever seen on a film set? During the Autumn of 2023, we were shooting a low-budget action/sci-fi movie in Scotland, which was a curse-ridden and chaotic production. It was on Day 11 of the shoot when this unfortunate incident occurred, and it was a reminder to every that sometimes filmmaking can be a painful endeavour. The following story is taken from my book Lights, Camera, Anarchy (How I Survived the Film Shoot From Hell!), which can be purchased on Amazon.

2 weeks ago | theregister.com | Richard Currie

Precious scientific papers once belonging to wartime codebreaking genius Alan Turing – rescued from an attic clear-out where they faced destruction – are set to fetch a fortune at auction next month. The incredible archive, tipped to rake in tens of thousands, includes a rare signed copy of Turing's 1939 PhD dissertation, Systems Of Logic Based On Ordinals [PDF]. Experts reckon this manuscript alone could go for between £40,000 and £60,000 (c $54-$81,000).

2 weeks ago | theregister.com | Richard Currie

A ruthless cyber conman who duped elderly pensioners – including an 80-year-old man – into smuggling deadly class A drugs was this week locked up. Tonny Iheoma Ezeh, 51, cruelly tricked vulnerable email scam victims into believing they had hit the jackpot and convinced them they had to travel abroad to collect their cash.

3 weeks ago | theregister.com | Richard Currie

The dream of every medieval alchemist – turning lead into gold – has finally come true thanks to some impractical physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Physicists at the multibillion-euro atom smasher near Geneva managed to transmute lead into gold during high-speed ion collisions, proving that you can defy nature if you throw enough money, energy, and hardware at the problem.

1 month ago | medium.com | Richard Currie

Have you ever worked with a difficult actress, well… I worked with the worst!Usually, the average number of script pages shot per day on a feature film is about two or three, but what we were proposing to shoot that day was more than triple the industry standard. An experienced crew might struggle with such a challenging amount to film in a single day, and it would possibly be suggested that the scene be split up and shot over two days instead.