A PowerPoint about the film company working titles

1. By the one
and only WORKING TITLES

2. 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.

3. 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.

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