Films Features Theatre TV News About Action! Go ABOUT CAREERS CONTACT About 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’s Elizabeth 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. Bevan and Fellner have been honoured with the Producers Guild of America’s David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, the PGA’s highest honour for motion picture producers. They have also been accorded two of the highest film awards given to British filmmakers; the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, at the Orange British Academy Film [BAFTA] Awards, and the Alexander Walker Film Award at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. They have also both been honored with CBEs (Commanders of the Order of the British Empire). Working Title enjoys ongoing and successful creative collaborations with filmmakers including the Coen Brothers, Richard Curtis, Stephen Daldry, Paul Greengrass, Edgar Wright, and Joe Wright; and actors Rowan Atkinson, Cate Blanchett, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Gary Oldman and Emma Thompson, among others. Its extensive and diverse productions (in addition to those mentioned above) have included Mike Newell’s Four Weddings and a Funeral; Richard Curtis’ Love Actually; Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot; Roger Michell’s Notting Hill; both Bean movies (directed by Mel Smith and Steve Bendelack, respectively); Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz; Paul and Chris Weitz’ About a Boy; Greg Mottola’s Paul; Adam Brooks’ Definitely, Maybe; Sydney Pollack’s The Interpreter; both Bridget Jones movies (directed by Sharon Maguire and Beeban Kidron, respectively); Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice and Atonement; Baltasar Kormákur’s Contraband, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale; both Nanny McPhee movies (directed by Kirk Jones and Susanna White, respectively); both Johnny English movies (directed by Peter Howitt and Oliver Parker, respectively); Asif Kapadia’s Senna, the company’s first documentary feature, about legendary race car driver Ayrton Senna; Paul Greengrass’ United 93; and Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. The success of the film Billy Elliot has continued on stage with Billy Elliot the Musical. Directed by Stephen Daldry with book and lyrics by Lee Hall and music by Elton John, the show has won 81 theatre awards internationally and has been seen around the world by over 9 million people. Billy Elliot continues its highly successful run in London’s West End while its touring production, which began in 2010, will travel to São Paulo, Brazil for a three week engagement in August, the first time Billy Elliot will have played in South America. The show ran for over three years on Broadway winning 10 Tony Awards in 2009 including Best Musical and Best Director and has also played in Sydney, Melbourne, Chicago, Toronto and Seoul, South Korea. Further international productions are planned. 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. This year, WTTV produced Mary & Martha, written by Richard Curtis, directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn, for BBC ONE and HBO. In the autumn, Sky One will broadcast Yonderland, WTTV’s first comedy series, written by and starring the cast of Horrible Histories. In the US, Love Bites aired on NBC in 2011 and About a Boy was picked up for a series and will be broadcast on NBC in their 2013/14 season. Subscribe to our newsletter SIGN UP © 2014 Working Title Films. 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