EMI Films

...Denis O'Brien . It was created to help out his Monty Python friends by raising GBP2 million to finish their film Life of Brian '' after EMI Films, the original financiers, pulled out due to the film's satirical content. Harrison took the...

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...by former Beatle , George Harrison, and business partner Denis O'Brien in 1978 to finance the Monty Python film Life of Brian ''. When EMI Films, the original financiers of ''Brian, pulled out, the creators had to find other financing. The...

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...the film ''The Jazz Singer ''. The soundtrack was released in November 1980 originally on Capitol Records. Capitol Records' parent EMI's EMI Films unit produced the film. The soundtrack was re-released in February 1996 on Columbia Records in...

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...of Mac; the supporting cast includes Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin and Allan Hubbard . Produced by EMI Films, it took about a year to secure financing for the film, the majority of which was filmed in...

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...industry was entering a period of decline, and none of Newman's projects ever went into production. ABPC was taken over by EMI, becoming EMI Films, and at the end of June 1969, Newman was dismissed from the company, later describing his...

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...film adaptations of her works made in the 1960s, and accordingly was unwilling to sell any more film rights. When Nat Cohen, chairman of EMI Films, and producer John Brabourne attempted to get her approval for this film, they felt it...

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EMI Films was a British film and television production company and distributor. The company was formed after the takeover of Associated British Picture Corporation in 1968 by EMI. Its major successes as a film producer include the 1978...

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...in 1969 it was purchased by EMI (who subsequently sold the cinema subsidiary to the Cannon Group). The following year ABPC was renamed EMI Films, under which title it was still an active concern in the film industry until 1990. Subsidiaries...

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...Deeley was "the man in the suit who took up scissors and ruined" the 1973 thriller "The Wicker Man." It wasn't Deeley's fault that EMI Films, where he was president in the mid-1970s, backed out of funding Monty Python's "Life of Brian";...

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...was produced and released in 1974 by Thames Television Ltd. via its feature-film subsidiary Euston Films and originally distributed by EMI Films. Current Worldwide Distribution by Canal + Image UK LTD. The original programmes were shot on...

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