Working Title Films, co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner since 1992, is one of the world’s leading film production companies.
Founded in 1983, Working Title has made over 100 films that have grossed nearly $6 billion worldwide. Its films have won 10 Academy Awards (for Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables, Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, Tim Robbins’ Dead Man Walking; Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo; Shekhar Kapur’sElizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age; and Joe Wright’s Atonement), 35 BAFTA Awards, and numerous prestigious prizes at the Cannes and Berlin International Film Festivals.
Working Title’s 2012/2013 film slate includes About Time, directed by Richard Curtis starring Rachel McAdams and Domhnall Gleeson; Edgar Wright’s The World’s End, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost; John Crowley’s Closed Circuit, starring Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall; Hossein Amini’s The Two Faces of January, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac; and Ron Howard’s Rush, starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl.
WTTV is based in London and LA and is a joint venture between NBC Universal International, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.
The UK office is headed up by Juliette Howell, the LA office by Liza Chasin. The UK office is currently developing projects across all UK broadcasters. Productions include the critically acclaimed and BAFTA-winning Birdsong, adapted by Abi Morgan, The Borrowers, BBC ONE’s highest rating single film of Christmas 2011, and Dominic Savage’s series True Love.
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