HandMade Films
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| Type | Public: LSE: HMF |
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| Founded | Partnership, public offering, Merger & Purchase |
| Headquarters | United Kingdom, London |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people |
Patrick Meehan
(Chairman of the Board) |
| Industry | Filmmaking, Distribution |
| Products | Handmade Films Handmade Films international Alpha Beta Films International (affiliated through common ownership) |
| Services | Distribution |
| Divisions | HandMade Films International |
| Subsidiaries | Sequence, Equator |
| Website | www.handmadeplc.com |
HandMade Films is a British film production and distribution company. Through a series of sales, and acquisitions, the company now known as Handmade Plc owns all the rights and assets of the original HandMade Films Ltd. Notable films from the studio include Monty Python's Life of Brian, Time Bandits, Withnail and I and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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[edit] Studio history
HandMade Films was formed by former Beatle, George Harrison, and business partner Denis O'Brien in 1979 to finance the Monty Python film Life of Brian (Bryan).
When EMI Films, the original financiers of Brian, pulled out, the creators had to find other financing. The first film started under the company was 1981's Time Bandits. The Studio continued to produce films through the 1980s.
In 1994, the company was acquired by the Canadian company Paragon Entertainment, which restarted production under the HandMade name. [1] The company's most notable release of that era was Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).
Meanwhile in 1999 Patrick Meehan and Cartier investments acquired HandMade Films from Paragon Entertainment.[2] In June 2006, the Equator Group plc acquired Handmade Holdings Limited. In November 2006, Sequence Film Limited, a film sales, marketing and financial packaging company, was also acquired. It was subsequently renamed Handmade Films International.[3] The parent company, now known as Handmade, plc is currently publicly traded under the symbol HMF:LSE
[edit] Film library
- Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
- The Long Good Friday (1980)
- Time Bandits (1981)
- Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)
- The Missionary (1982)
- Privates on Parade (1982)
- Bullshot (1983)
- Scrubbers (1983)
- A Private Function (1984)
- Water (1985)
- Mona Lisa (1986)
- Shanghai Surprise (1986)
- Track 29 (1987)
- Withnail and I (1987)
- Five Corners (1987)
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
- Nuns on the Run (1990)
- The Wrong Guy (1997)
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
- Welcome 2 Ibiza (2002 Spain) (tba elsewhere) (Alpha Beta Films International)
- Always Crashing in the Same Car (2007)
- Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) (UK) aka Man on the Run (USA)
[edit] Upcoming films
- Planet 51 (2009)
- The Mason's Hammer (2011)
[edit] External links
- HandMade Films' website
- HandMade Films at the Internet Movie Database
- HandMade Films at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
[edit] References
- ^ newswire
- ^ Thaper, Neil (1999-07-18). "AIM newcomer set for big things after UK acquisition" (in English) (print). The Mail (London): p. 11. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/. Retrieved on 2008-10-07. ". . . Equator's biggest share holder is Patrick Meehan . . ."
- ^ "HandMade plc". Financial Times. http://markets.ft.com/ft/tearsheets/businessProfile.asp?s=UK:HMF. Retrieved on 2008-10-05.
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