24 Hour Party People is a 2002 biographical British film telling the story of Tony Wilson, a local news reporter (played by Steve Coogan), who attends a pivotal gig by The Sex Pistols in the 1970s and, believing he is living in "one of the most important fucking times in human history", decides to start a record company called Factory Records and a club, The Hacienda. The film focuses largely on two of Factory's most popular artists, Joy Division (and their later reformation as New Order) and The Happy Mondays, although it also features A Certain Ratio and Durutti Column to a lesser extent.