'Spring Breakers' Producers Sued Over Alleged Attempt to Hide Assets (Exclusive) — hollywoodreporter.com

Muse Productions, the shop behind Spring Breakers, is now defending a lawsuit that contends it has rushed to hide its assets in light of allegedly failing to pay $300,000 on its forthcoming film London Fields, an adaptation of one of Martin Amis' most famous literary creations. At stake could be the sequel to Spring Breakers. The lawsuit was filed on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court by Periscope Entertainment, which says it agreed to advance money for the development of London Fields, directed by Mathew Cullen and starring Billy Bob Thornton and Amber Heard. It's a film adaptation of Amis' dark novel from 1989 that focuses on the impending killing of Nicola Six, a promiscuous psychic, told by an unreliable narrator who on the opening page says, "This is the story of a murder. It hasn't happened yet. But it will."

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