By the one 
and only WORKING TITLES
ABOUT 
Working Title Films, co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric 
Fellner since 1992, is one of the world’s leading film 
production companies. Woking titles is in vertical 
integration with universal studios. Universal studios own 
67% of the company and there aim is to get the American 
public more interested in England and its heritage. 
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 
Theatric al 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.
BREAKTHROUGH SUCCESS 
 The first breakthrough that working titles had was a 
film called four wedding and a funeral. When they were 
pitching the idea to universal studios they would agree 
with this idea as long as the lead could be an American 
actress and the reason for this is so it would be bigger 
in America if they where to see a name that they would 
know so working titles agreed to this premise 
and they made the film and it was a 
hit in America and England. 
 Budget 
- $4,500,000 (estimated) 
 Made 
- $245,700,832 (worldwide)
MORE SUCCESS 
 Universal has created a lot of fi lms in its time and wi l l do for 
a l o n g t ime o n e o f i t s ma n y h i t s wa s a f i lm c a l l e d ‘ S h a u n o f 
the dead 'The budget of this fi lm was 4,000,000 and ended 
up making 30,000,000 world wide and gave them a profit of 
26,000,000 
 For a British low budget fi lm this was amazing and has 
ended up creating a tri logy because of this and this has now 
left open a possibi l ity for the uk to be able to start making 
more fi lms that can be a commercial success

Working Titles

  • 1.
    By the one and only WORKING TITLES
  • 2.
    ABOUT Working TitleFilms, co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner since 1992, is one of the world’s leading film production companies. Woking titles is in vertical integration with universal studios. Universal studios own 67% of the company and there aim is to get the American public more interested in England and its heritage. 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.
  • 3.
    Bevan and Fellnerhave been honoured with the Producers Guild of America’s David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatric al 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.
  • 4.
    BREAKTHROUGH SUCCESS The first breakthrough that working titles had was a film called four wedding and a funeral. When they were pitching the idea to universal studios they would agree with this idea as long as the lead could be an American actress and the reason for this is so it would be bigger in America if they where to see a name that they would know so working titles agreed to this premise and they made the film and it was a hit in America and England.  Budget - $4,500,000 (estimated)  Made - $245,700,832 (worldwide)
  • 5.
    MORE SUCCESS Universal has created a lot of fi lms in its time and wi l l do for a l o n g t ime o n e o f i t s ma n y h i t s wa s a f i lm c a l l e d ‘ S h a u n o f the dead 'The budget of this fi lm was 4,000,000 and ended up making 30,000,000 world wide and gave them a profit of 26,000,000  For a British low budget fi lm this was amazing and has ended up creating a tri logy because of this and this has now left open a possibi l ity for the uk to be able to start making more fi lms that can be a commercial success