Brexit Has Scuppered Mrs Brown's Boys Sequel Movie

The real effects of the UK’s Brexit vote are still emerging, but comedy fans who voted ‘Leave’ might have shot themselves in the foot.

Brendan O'Carroll has said that a sequel to2014’s 'Mrs Brown’s Boys D'Movie’ is now in jeopardy because of the vote.

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He told The Sun: “We were planning to do it this year but the numbers weren’t right.

“The Brexit drop in Sterling makes it a lot more expensive for the studio than it would have been previously.

“They will wait until the Pound stabilises before they make any plans.

“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.

“That’s the only way you can price it and make a budget. Other than that it’s just a question of, ‘Are we going or not going?’

“We need ten months notice on that and so far there’s nothing.”

The first movie was made on the relatively tiny budget of £3.6 million, making back nearly £29 million at the box office.

It also hit the top of the UK and Irish box office charts on its opening weekend, eventually being knocked off the top spot in its third week by 'Transformers: Age of Extinction’.

The movie also ended up as the third highest-grossing British or Irish film of the year, behind 'The Inbetweeners 2’ and 'Paddington’.

The critics, however, were not kind.

The Guardian called it 'a flatly indifferent cash-in’, while Robbie Collin in The Daily Telegraph described it as 'something close to anti-funny’.

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