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   Who financed life of Brian?

   • Following the withdrawal of funding by EMI Films just days before production was scheduled to begin, musician and former Beatle George Harrison and his business partner Denis O'Brien arranged financing for Life of Brian through the formation of their HandMade Films company. [ 4 ]

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   How much did handmade cost to make 'life of Brian'?

   • HandMade was created initially with the sole goal of seeing “Life of Brian” to completion. Harrison put his English estate, Friar Park, up as collateral against a bank loan for about $2 million that covered the other half of the film’s overall $4-million production budget, Goldstone said.

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   Is 'the life of Brian' a good movie?

   • It might be a silly film for silly people but, nearly 50 years after its release it remains an eminently quotable and enduring comedy classic. But it and the iconic British comedy team’s follow-up The Life Of Brian might not have got off the ground if it wasn’t for funding from some of the world’s biggest rock stars.

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   What happened to life of Brian?

   • The unlikely side effect was not just that “Life of Brian” was indeed completed and became a global hit commercially, but that HandMade Films continued to produce other projects and became an important force in British cinema during the 1980s.

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   Where did life of Brian come from?

   • There are various stories about the origins of Life of Brian. Shortly after the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Eric Idle flippantly suggested that the title of the Pythons' forthcoming feature would be Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory (a play on the UK title for the 1970 American film Patton, Patton: Ordeal and Triumph). [ 14 ]

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   When did Monty Python & Brian get together?

   • Then, in 1978, in an effort to be deemed as more professional as they vied to produce Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the duo formed the film production and distribution company HandMade Films together.

   When George Harrison financed the Monty Python’s movie ‘Life Of Brian

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2. faroutmagazine.co.uk › the-beatles-george-harrisonWhen George Harrison financed the Monty Python’s movie ‘Life ...

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   Oct 21, 2020 · Harrison jumped at the opportunity to finance the production of Life of Brian and even had to remortgage his home as he gambled everything on the film being a smash hit at the box office. Python star Eric Idle later called this “the most anybody’s ever paid for a cinema ticket in history”.

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   May 5, 2022 · Such films were no easy feat to fund, however, particularly as the religious themes of Life of Brian were rather contentious, so, in an effort to help some of his favourite filmmakers, George Harrison put up the majority of the budget for the 1979 movie.

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   Oct 10, 2019 · Through Harrison’s manager, Denis O’Brien, a boutique company, HandMade Films, was set up to handle the financing. HandMade was created initially with the sole goal of seeing “Life of...

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   Feb 10, 2024 · But it and the iconic British comedy team’s follow-up The Life Of Brian might not have got off the ground if it wasn’t for funding from some of the world’s biggest rock stars. Monty Python’s 1971’s And Now for Something Completely Different was bankrolled by Playboy ′s UK executive Victor Lownes.

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   Nov 28, 2018 · Harrison was more than just emotionally supportive -- he mortgaged his house to help finance Monty Python's Life of Brian, taking a chance on the comedy troupe before they'd become so...

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   Mar 7, 2019 · A new feature-length documentary is to look at the history of HandMade Films, the production company George Harrison set up to help finance Monty Python’s Life Of Brian.