Tuesday 11 December 2012

Working Title Films- Facts

Working Title-

  • Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London.
  • It was founded in 1983 by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe.
  • Working Title produces feature films and several television productions.
  • Its parent companies were PolyGram (1991-1999) and Universal Studios (2000- Present).
  • Over the past 16 years, Working Title has made some of Britain’s biggest-ever movies such as Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Shaun Of The Dead.
  • Some of the movies Working Title have produced have won 6 Oscars, 26 Baftas (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth: The Golden Age etc) and prizes at the Cannes and Berlin film festivals.
  • The London office is overseen and managed by WTTV's head of television (UK) Juliette Howell, who has worked as an executive producer in the BBC drama commissioning group and head of development for Film4, where her credits included Slumdog Millionaire and Shameless.
  • The company's TV division also released modernised versions of the children's novels, The Borrowers in December 2011 and Abi Morgan's adaptation of Birdsong in January 2012.
    TitleRelease Date
    Green ZoneMarch 12, 2010
    Nanny McPhee and the Big BangAugust 20, 2010
    (Ewan McGregor).
    Paul
    (Nick Frost, Simon
    Pegg and Seth Rogen).
    March 18, 2011
    SennaAugust 12, 2011
    Johnny English Reborn
    (Rowan Atkinson).
    October 21, 2011
    Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyDecember 9, 2011
    ContrabandJanuary 13, 2012
    Big MiracleFebruary 3, 2012
    Anna KareninaNovember 16, 2012
    Les Misérables
    (With leading Hollywood stars such as

    Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfreid,
    Helena Bonham Carter, Hugh Jackman,
    Russell Crowe and Sacha Baron Cohen).
    December 25, 2012

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