article_snippet.sent: The budget was small -- about $400,000, half of The 1975 film supplied by rock stars, including Genesis and Pink Floyd.
article_snippet.sent: On the first day of filming in Scotland -- the first shot, in fact -- the camera broke.
article_snippet.sent: On the day of It first American screening in New York, a thousand people were in line by 8 a.m.
article_snippet.sent: The film did have one huge supporter: ex-Beatle George Harrison, who mortgaged his estate to help fund the movie when a financier pulled out.
article_snippet.sent: a financier paid for it because a financier wanted to see it," Idle recalled.
article_snippet.sent: The most anybody's ever paid for a cinema ticket in history.