Starsuckers
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8.4/10 Top Documentary Films 6.9/10 Letterboxd Writer Chris Atkins Initial release October 28, 2009 Running time 1h 43m | 7.3/10 IMDb 73% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Documentary Duration Director Chris Atkins Narrator Rupert Degas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Producers Christina Slater, Felicity Leabeater Cast Ellis Cashmore (himself), (himself), Richard Curtis (himself), Josef d'Bache-Kane (himself), Nick Davies (himself), Charlotte de Barker (herself)Similar movies My Kid Could Paint That (2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starsuckers movie celebrity obsessed media
Starsuckers is a 2009 British documentary film aiming to expose the "shams and deceit involved in creating a pernicious celebrity culture".
Contents
- Starsuckers movie celebrity obsessed media
- Starsuckers documentary part 1
- Legal threats from Max Clifford
- Criminal convictions
- References
Directed by Chris Atkins, director of the 2007 documentary Taking Liberties, it shows the production team planting a variety of celebrity-related stories in the UK media, such as a claim that the singer Avril Lavigne had been seen asleep in a nightclub. A variety of tabloid newspapers accepted the stories without corroboration or evidence.
It launched as part of the British Film Institute's 53rd Film Festival. Thirty minutes of footage from the film were shown to the Leveson Inquiry as part of the evidence presented by the film's director, Chris Atkins.
Starsuckers documentary part 1
Legal threats from Max Clifford
On 23 October 2009, six days before the Starsuckers premiere, the makers reported that they had received an e-mail from the law firm Carter-Ruck, acting on behalf of controversial publicist Max Clifford and threatening them with an injunction.
Criminal convictions
In December 2015, three City traders, James Hyde, Hamish Maclellan, and Phillip Jenkins, along with their accountant Terence Potter, were convicted of conspiring to cheat HM Revenue & Customs by falsifying documents to show that they had each actively worked 10 or more hours a week on the production of Starsuckers and were eligible for tax rebates. Three other defendants were acquitted at the same trial.
In June 2016, two further producers of Starsuckers, Christopher Walsh Atkins and Christina Slater, were convicted of the same charge of conspiring to cheat HM Revenue & Customs, and were jailed for 5 and 4 years respectively. Terence Potter was again convicted.
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