Thursday, 11 October 2012

Working Title


Working title are a British production company founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in the year of 1983, but are know owned by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, they are based in Marylebone in London.They have produced some big box office films like Paul, Johnny English Reborn, and Johnny English, Atonement, Hot Fuzz and many more that am sure that most people have heard of


















Working title have been you could say have been relatively successful, they have mad 95 films taking in total $4.5 billion in the process winning 6 Academy Awards and 26 BAFTA's. They make films with third parties , build up a good relationship with them so they can continue to work together with each other in the future. Someone who does a lot for working title is Richard Curtis who writes, directs, and produces a lot of there films, they have a good relationship and have produced a lot of good films together. They work on the philosophy that they should make films that they believe in, they believe that they should work with home grow material.

Working title has had a number of big box office hits they have also had some flops. some of the films that have done well include: Notting Hill costing 14 million(all money units in US dollars) and taking 31 million; Bridget Jones costing 14 million and taking 42 million; Johnny English Reborn costing 45 million and taking over 160 million; Paul costing 40 million and taking 97 million; Hot Fuzz costing 8 million and taking 80 million and finally Shaun of the Dead costing 4 million and taking 30 million but...They have had some flops such as: Wimbledon costing 20 million and taking only 6 and a half million.