Working Title
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About
Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
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The Famous movie British company was co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner since 1992. Being founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Raclyffe in 1983, it has won 11 academy awards for many of its films such as Les Misiserables. Not to mention they have produced some television works.
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).
Parent Organization:
Univiversal studios
Comcast
NBC Universal
Facts
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Working Title has been active in television production since the early 1990s.
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In 2010, Working Title officially launched its TV division as a joint venture with parent company NBCUniversal.
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In 1999, Bevan and Fellner launched a subsidiary company named Working Title 2 Productions, commonly known as WT2
Working Title is co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner in 1992. being named one of the biggest film productions companies it was founded in 1983 by Sarah Radcliyff and Tim Bevan. The British film company holds their headquaters in London.
Just like any other company Working title has aims and their aim is to make European movies for a worldwide audience and want to instil them with European ideas and influences in order to reach a wider audience.
'My Beautiful Laundrette' ws Working Title's first movie on November 15th 1985, the movie was the first step to working title becoming so successful. In 1992, PolyGram became the company's corporate backer. Radclyffe left Working Title, and Eric Fellner, a fellow independent film producer, joined the company. Together they led the company to becoming one the biggest. In 1999, Universal Studios - an American film studio - decided to buy Working Title Films and are now a parent company. Universal Studios are owned by NBC Universal who are owned, as a whole, by Comcast.
Working Title have made a lot of collaborations with many filmmakers suchas 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.
