The Works Film Group has confirmed that it is preparing a Blu-ray release of acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom's comedy 24 Hour Party People (2002), starring Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, and Paddy Considine. The release will be available for purchase on October 2.
Synopsis: A wild and sexy tale of music, good times and the larger-than- life characters behind the spectacular rise and fall of Manchester's infamous Factory Records and Hacienda nightclub.
Blown away by an unknown local band called the Sex Pistols, TV personality Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) is inspired to invent a uniquely anarchic record label. Soon he's promoting everyone from New Order to Happy Mondays on his newly formed Factory Records.... and partying like a rock star. From Tony's speedy rise to Factory's hedonistic fall, this "wonderful party of a movie stamps on a smiley face that will linger on for hours" (New York Post)!