The very studio behind the greatest comedy film of all time.
HandMade Films is a British film production company. It was founded in 1978 by George Harrison and Denis O'Brien, initially to finance the Monty Python comedy Monty Python's Life of Brian, and has since been behind more than a dozen feature films and television productions from various genres.A series of box office bombs left the company bankrupt in 1991, and in 1994 a Canadian production firm named Paragon Entertainment acquired the company and resumed operations under the Handmade name.
Films produced and/or distributed include:
- Bullshot
- The Burning (UK distributor)
- Eloise at the Plaza
- Highlander: The Source
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising
- Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
- The Long Good Friday
- Mona Lisa
- Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Nuns on the Run
- Shanghai Surprise
- The Stone Angel
- Time Bandits
- Venom (1981) (UK distributor)
- Water (1985)
- Withnail and I
- The Wrong Guy
