Working Title Films

• The company was co-founded by producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983
• PolyGram became the company's corporate backer in 1992
• Radclyffe left and Eric Fellner, a fellow independent film producer, joined the company
• The company produced a variety of films for PolyGram's London-based production company PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
• PolyGram Films became a major Hollywood competitor
• PolyGram was sold to Seagram and merged with MCA Music Entertainment to form Universal Music Group, and Polygram Films was sold and folded into Universal Studios in 1999
• Parent company - NBCUniversal
• The company is known for having a limited number of employees
• Working Title is located in London, but has other offices in Los Angeles and Ireland
• It produces feature films and several television productions, including films starring comic actor Rowan Atkinson
• Bevan and Fellner launched a subsidary company names Working Title 2 Productions (WT²⁾ in 1999, which is an independent film production arm run by Natascha Wharton, and has produced films that include Billy Elliot, Shaun of the Dead and The Calcium Kid
• Working Title Television is a joint venture with NBCUniversal
• They released a modernised version of the children's novels, The Borrowers in December 2011 and Abi Mogran's adaptation of Birdsong in January 2012
• Executive producer in the BBC drama commissioning group and drama commissioner and head of development for Film4, Juliette Howell, WTTV's head of television (UK) will oversee the London office
• Working Title was involved in a bid for the London weekend ITV licence in 1991
  
  Recent films include:

Title	Release Date
Green Zone	March 12, 2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang	August 20, 2010
Paul	March 18, 2011
Senna	August 12, 2011
Johnny English Reborn	October 21, 2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	December 9, 2011
Contraband	January 13, 2012
Big Miracle	February 3, 2012
Anna Karenina	November 16, 2012
Les Misérables	December 25, 2012

          Others include:

Hot Fuzz (2007) - Director: Edgar Wright
Writers: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Martin Freeman
Budget: £8,000,000
Opening Weekend: £5,918,149 (UK) (18 February 2007) (427 Screens)
Gross: $23,618,786 (USA) (22 July 2007)

Pride & Prejudice (2005) - Director: Joe Wright
Writers: Jane Austen (novel), Deborah Moggach (screenplay)
Stars: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen and Brenda Blethyn
Budget: $29,000,000
Opening Weekend: £2,529,947  (UK) (18 September 2005) (397 Screens)

Gross: $120,051,592 (Worldwide)

Briget Jones' Diary (2001) - Director: Sharon Maguire
Writers: Helen Fielding
Stars: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant
Budget: $26,000,000
Opening Weekend: $10,733,933 (USA) (15 April 2001) (1611 Screens)
Gross: $71,500,556  (USA) (5 August 2001)