YouTube has ordered The Lou Pearlman Project (working title), a documentary about the rise and fall of Lou Pearlman, the notorious record producer and convicted fraudster who was behind such successful boy bands as *NSYNC, and Backstreet Boys.*NSYNC member Lance Bass serves as an executive producer on the project…

EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Grief’s ThinkFactory Media is teaming with hitmaking songwriter-producers Desmond Child and Andreas Carlsson on The Lou Pearlman Story, a limited series about the man behind megaplatinum boy bands Backstreet Boys and ‘NSYNC who went from mogul to inmate after being convicted of running a huge Ponzi…

EXCLUSIVE: John Curran is now in talks to develop and direct the TV series planned about Lou Pearlman, the manager/producer of *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys who was also running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of about $300M. Toby Jones (The Hunger Games franchise, The Coldest City) is attached to star in the…

The life story of Lou Pearlman, the former multiplatinum boy band manager-turned-convicted felon, is getting the movie treatment. John Stamos, Desmond Child and Andreas Carlsson have acquired the rights to Tyler Gray’s 2008 book The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S…

The bestselling author behind The Finest Hours and his Boston Strong co-author are launching a new production company, and they already have their sights set on their first project — Billion Dollar Sound, a limited TV series about the corrupt boy band manager Lou Pearlman and his relationship with LFO lead singer Rich…

Lou Pearlman, a convicted Ponzi scheme operator who became famous in the 1990s as the record company owner and manager behind a string of top-selling pop groups including Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, died Friday from undisclosed causes while in prison. He was 62. From Flushing, NY, Pearlman began his adult life working…