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Ben Pugh And Rory Aitken’s 42 Comes Of Age: New Projects With Working Title,...
EXCLUSIVE – Ben Pugh and Rory Aitken’s UK-based production and management entity 42 is poised for the big time with new projects lined up with Working Title, IM Global, the BBC and ITV. In little over...
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Joe Wright In Talks To Board ‘The Lifeboat’ With Anne Hathaway, Working Title...
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Wright is in talks to direct The Lifeboat with Anne Hathaway attached to star in the adaptation of Charlotte Rogan’s book. Hathaway is also producing alongside Working Title, Film 360...
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Sofia Coppola Drops Out Of ‘The Little Mermaid’
EXCLUSIVE: Sofia Coppola, who in March aligned herself to direct the live-action Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale The Little Mermaid, has just dropped out of the Universal Pictures and Working Title...
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Working Title Re-Ups With Universal, New Agreement To Run Through 2020
EXCLUSIVE– British production powerhouse Working Title is re-upping with Universal Pictures for another five years to take the two companies through 2020. The new production agreement replaces the...
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Tessa Ross & Juliette Howell Launching Production Company
EXCLUSIVE: Former Film4 head Tessa Ross and exiting Working Title TV chief Juliette Howell are teaming to launch a new production company. Deadline understands the company will cover both film and TV...
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Universal Options Upcoming Novel ‘The New Winter’ For Working Title
Universal Pictures has optioned The New Winter, the upcoming debut novel by Aussie writer Anna Snoekstra. The pic project will be produced by Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan of Working Title, and marks the...
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Baltasar Kormákur’s ‘Everest’ To Open Venice Film Festival
Baltasar Kormákur’s Everest will open the 72nd Venice Film Festival, it was announced today. The Working Title production, based on a true story, documents the journey of two different expeditions...
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‘Jonathan Strange’ Director Toby Haynes Tapped For Lee Hall-Scripted...
While Sony Pictures and Working Title have been denying this for weeks, it looks like they have found a director for their grand reinvention of Oliver!, the musical with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart...
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‘Everest’ Imax Trailer: Chilling New Peek At Epic Mountain Climbing Drama
The first trailer for Baltasar Kormákur’s adventure thriller Everest dropped back in June. That one introduced us to the main climbers as they set out to conquer the world’s highest mountain, “without...
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Working Title Television US Hires Andrew Stearn As President
One of TV’s longest producing relationships, between John Wells and Andrew Stearn, has come to an end after 15 years. Stearn, who served as president of television of Warner Bros. TV-based John Wells...
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Patrick Dempsey Joining ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ For Working Title
EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Dempsey is in final negotiations to join the cast of Bridget Jones’s Baby for British production powerhouse Working Title co-chiefs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. The much-anticipated...
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Tim Bevan And Eric Fellner Q&A: The UK Kings Of The Castle On Secret Of Their...
Superlatives come easy when describing Brit production powerhouse Working Title. By some measure the most successful production company in the UK, if not Europe, its co-chairmen Tim Bevan and Eric...
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‘Legend’ Sets UK Box Office Records As Tom Hardy’s Kray Twins Turn Builds Buzz
As I noted in my full international box office report last night, Tom Hardy-starrer Legend got off to a criminally good start this weekend in the UK. With actuals now in from Studiocanal, the final...
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Overseas Moviegoers Begin Hiking To ‘Everest’ In 36 Territories
Universal this weekend is rolling out Everest, its $60M adventure epic from Working Title, Cross Creek and Walden Media, in 36 overseas territories. With several No. 1s and good word of mouth, the...
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Rebecca Ferguson In Talks To Star In ‘The Snowman’ Opposite Michael...
EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Ferguson is in talks to star opposite Michael Fassbender in The Snowman for director Tomas Alfredson and Brit production powerhouse Working Title in association with Alfredson's...
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Jon Croker To Adapt Enid Blyton’s Classic ‘The Famous Five’ For Working Title
EXCLUSIVE: Up-and-coming Brit scribe Jon Croker will adapt Enid Blyton’s classic tale of derring-do The Famous Five for UK production powerhouse Working Title. Blyton, akin to the JK Rowling of her...
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Universal Dates Michael Fassbender’s ‘The Snowman’
Universal Pictures has dated its Jo Nesbo adaptation The Snowman for release on October 13, 2017. The film stars Michael Fassbender as an elite crime squad's lead detective investigating the...
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‘Hail, Caesar!’ Trailer: Would That It Were So Simple For Ralph Fiennes
Universal has dropped a new trailer (above) for Hail, Caesar!, the latest from Joel and Ethan Coen. The ensemble comedy bows February 5 domestically and will open the Berlin Film Festival the following...
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Jose Padilha In Negotiations To Direct ‘Entebbe’ For Working Title,...
EXCLUSIVE: Jose Padilha is in negotiations to direct Entebbe for Brit production powerhouse Working Title and Euro major StudioCanal. In what is a near-perfect union marriage of filmmaker and subject,...
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Andrew Woodhead Appointed Working Title TV Managing Director
Brit production powerhouse Working Title has tapped Andrew Woodhead as the new managing director of its TV division. Woodhead was previously an exec producer at Kudos, working on the likes of Spooks...
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