‘Billy Elliot’ Returns: How Working Title & Key Creatives Gave Their Blessing...
EXCLUSIVE: Eric Fellner, Working Title co-chairman, and the creators of the hit Billy Elliot musical, have given their support to a non-replica production that will run at UK regional theatre, The...
View ArticleUniversal Partners With Working Title For First-Ever Global Writers Program;...
Universal’s Global Talent Development & Inclusion department today announced the opening of applications for three unique writing experiences: the Universal Writers Lab; the Universal Animation...
View ArticleSally El Hosaini’s ‘The Swimmers’ To Open Zurich Film Festival
Making its European premiere, Sally El Hosaini’s The Swimmers has been set as the opening film of the 18th Zurich Film Festival. Based on the inspirational true-life story of the Mardini sisters, it...
View Article‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ Trailer Ahead Of TIFF Debut; Jean-Michel...
‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ Trailer Unveiled Ahead Of Toronto Debut Studiocanal and Working Title Films have unveiled the official trailer for Shekhar Kapur’s cross-cultural British romantic comedy...
View ArticleEmma Thompson Says ‘Matilda The Musical’ Child Stars Didn’t Fear Her...
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Emma Thompson, who plays Miss Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress who bullies a book-loving schoolgirl and her classmates in Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, has revealed how...
View ArticleWorking Title Partners Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner On 30 Years At Universal,...
EXCLUSIVE: Usually content to let their logo on the front end of films speak for them, Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner spoke with Deadline in a prolific moment and a series of...
View ArticleMelissa McCarthy To Star In Richard Curtis-Scripted Christmas Comedy For...
EXCLUSIVE: Universal and Working Title have set Melissa McCarthy to star in an untitled Christmas-in-New York movie that will be written by Love Actually scribe Richard Curtis and directed by Sam Boyd....
View Article‘I May Destroy You’s Paapa Essiedu Joins Melissa McCarthy In Peacock’s...
EXCLUSIVE: Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) is set to star opposite Melissa McCarthy in the untitled New York Christmas movie from Universal and Working Title that we were first to report on. The film...
View ArticleWorking Title Wins Memoir ‘People Hacker;’ 6 Vs 7-Figure TV Rights Deal For...
EXCLUSIVE: After a spirited auction that brought 20 suitors into play, Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner emerged victorious with a six-against seven-figure deal for People Hacker, a...
View ArticleFrankie Goes To Hollywood Biopic ‘Relax’ In The Works With ‘It’s A Sin’ Star...
EXCLUSIVE: Just a couple of days after they reunited for the first time in almost 40 years, we can reveal that UK band Frankie Goes To Hollywood is the subject of a new movie biopic from UK powerhouse...
View ArticleTim Bevan, Eric Fellner & Hans Zimmer Team Up To Buy Maida Vale Studios
London’s Maida Vale Studios has been sold to a partnership between Working Title co-chairmen Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and composer Hans Zimmer and his business partner Steve Kofsky. According to the...
View ArticleAmazon & Netflix In Bidding Battle For ‘Crime 101’: Don Winslow Novella Has...
EXCLUSIVE: In a whopping deal, Amazon and Netflix are battling ferociously for Crime 101, a package based on a novella by Don Winslow that has Chris Hemsworth and Pedro Pascal attached to star....
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