Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Working title

Overview/introduction of the company:key dates and people

  • 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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