Three find the Criminal Empire

Malin Akerman, Gary Oldman and Milo Ventimiglia are all signing on to be in Criminal Empire for Dummys, which already includes a couple of other actors like Harvey Keitel and Michael Clarke Duncan. The script is written by Cliff Dorfman who is also attached to helm the picture. Dorfman penned several episodes of the HBO series Entourage and is one of the writers for the Gavin O’Connor feature Warriors.

The independent gangster film centers on a charismatic young man — portrayed by Ventimiglia — who relates the do’s and don’ts of running a criminal empire through a flashback to his own rise from a tragic childhood and life in the ghetto to eventual position as a multinational drug and criminal kingpin (Variety). Filming is expected to start up at the end of this month in New Orleans.