Wroking Title Facts

• Working Title Films is a British film production company
• Founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983
• It produces feature films and television productions
• Its headquarters is in London with other offices in locations such as LA and Ireland
• Radclyffe left Working Title Films and Eric Fellner (an independent film producer) joined the company
• In 1991 PolyGram became the parent studio to Working Title
• In 2000 (after PolyGram was sold and merged into Universal Music Group), Universal Studios took over and became Working Title's parent studio
• Contractually, Working Title are able to produce films with a budget of up to $35 million
• In 1999, Bevan and Fellner launched a subsidary company named Working Title 2 Productions- an independant film production arm ran by Natascha Wharton
• Working Title Films, the UK film production company behind box office hits including Four Weddings and a Funeral and Shaun of the Dead, is to launch a TV division.Working Title Television is a joint venture with NBCUniversal (Working Titles parent studio) and will be based in London and Los Angeles.The London office will be overseen by Juliette Howell, who has worked as an executive producer in the BBC drama commissioning group and as drama commissioner and head of development for Film4, where her credits included Slumdog Millionaire and Shameless
• Films include:
• Notting Hill The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.Budget: £26 million
  Opening Weekend: £152,532
  Gross: £153,330,437 (excluding USA)
• Billy Elliot- A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
  Budget: $5 million
  Opening Weekend: $2,484,268
  Gross: $109,280,236
• Wild Child- A rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father.
  Budget: $20 million,
  Opening Weekend: $1,898,085
  Gross: $21,972,336