Brendan O’Carroll has revealed that funding for his movie sequel, Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie 2 is insecure due to post-Brexit uncertainty.
“We were planning to do it this year, but the numbers weren’t right,” O’Carroll told The Sun. “The Brexit drop in sterling makes it a lot more expensive for the studio than it would have been previously.”
O’Carroll fully intends to make his second Agnes Brown film as soon as the pound stabilises. “The plot and outline are there and ready to go. We know what’s going to happen and how we’re going to do it.”
Co-productions between the UK and European partners are believed to be threatened by the effects of the Brexit vote. Given that funding includes €130m from the EU’s media programme, availing of such financial aid in a post -EU situation is inevitably in question.
The first Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie film was a huge hit in Ireland and the UK in 2014. It's opening weekend pulled in a record €1.02m at the Irish box office - the highest opening weekend ever for an Irish movie. It went on to make €18.3 million globally making a sequel or sequels inevitable.
