- founded in 1984 by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe
- £500,000 investment in My Beautiful Launderette (first of a series of collaborations with Channel Four Films)
- Production deal in 1988 with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
- in 1991 Working Title set up a HollyWood office developing production deals with Tim Robbins (Bob Roberts, UK/USA, 1992 and Dead Man Walking) and The Coen Brothers.
- 1992:Polygram buys Working Title and Sarah leaves to set up her own production company. She gets replaced by the American producer Eric Fellner
- 1998: Polygram gets bought by Universal (Seagram company)
- 2000: Seagram gets bought by Vivendi (French Multimedia Conglomerate) Working Title is now owned by Universal which in turn is owned by Vivendi.
- deal with Universal allows Working Title to greenlight films up to $35m
- WT2(low budget, filmmaking arm) was set up to encourage new British filmmakers. One of the first films was Billy Elliot.
- Universal has owned Working Title for 16 years
What genre of films does the company produce?
- Les Miserables- Romance/History
- I Give it a Year- Comedy
- Paul-Comedy
- Love Actually-Romantic Comedy
- Johnny English- Comedy
- Mr Beans Holiday- Comedy
- About Time- Romance
- Nanny Mcphee and The Big Bang-Family
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