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Working Title Acquires Film Rights To Hit West End Comedy ‘Nell Gwynn’
EXCLUSIVE: Up for four Olivier Awards next month, including Best New Comedy, West End critical darling Nell Gwynn is headed to the big screen. In what I hear was a competitive situation, Tim Bevan and...
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Joe Wright In Talks To Direct Winston Churchill Pic For Working Title
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Wright is in talks to direct Brit production powerhouse Working Title’s Winston Churchill pic Darkest Hour. The director, who has a long history with Working Title co-toppers Tim Bevan...
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Studiocanal Taps Matthew Gledhill For Intl Production; Ups UK Chief Danny...
Studiocanal has expanded the role of its UK chief, Danny Perkins, and tapped Matthew Gledhill to join the Euro film player as SVP of international production. The moves come as the company looks to...
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Working Title Lands Upcoming Delia Ephron Novel ‘Siracusa’; Alfonso...
EXCLUSIVE: Working Title has acquired film rights to Delia Ephron's upcoming novel Siracusa. Ephron will adapt and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl helmer Alfonso Gomez-Rejon will direct. Working Title’s...
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Gary Oldman In Talks To Play Winston Churchill In Working Title’s ‘Darkest Hour’
EXCLUSIVE: He shall fight on the beaches. Gary Oldman is in talks to play Winston Churchill in Brit production powerhouse Working Title’s Darkest Hour. Joe Wright is directing the epic drama, which...
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Working Title Plotting Pic On Geriatric Masterminds Of Hatton Garden Jewelry...
EXCLUSIVE: Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are planning a caper pic about the unlikely gang of retirees that pulled off the daring Hatton Garden jewelry heist of 2015. They’ve closed...
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StudioCanal UK Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary With Impressive Slate And Sky...
EXCLUSIVE: A decade after StudioCanal acquired Optimum Releasing to establish a base in the UK, the company is consolidating its position as the country’s leading indie. Buoyed by the full support of...
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Dame Judi Dench And Stephen Frears Team For Working Title-BBC’s ‘Victoria And...
Dame Judi Dench and director Stephen Frears are teaming up for Victoria and Abdul. Working Title is producing in association with BBC Films. Focus Features will co-finance and distribute. The...
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UK Producers Come Out In Favor Of Staying In EU Ahead Of Referendum
The cream of the UK film industry has come together to argue its case for why Britain should vote to stay in the European Union ahead of the the referendum on Thursday. For weeks if not months now,...
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Tom Hardy To Play War Photographer Don McCullin In Working Title Drama
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Hardy, coming off an Oscar nom for The Revenant, will play legendary British war photographer Don McCullin in a film that ’71 scribe Gregory Burke has adapted from McCullin’s...
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EU Referendum Dominates UK Media As Brits Head To The Polls
The UK media was dominated by the referendum over whether Britain should vote to stay in or out of the European Union as Brits headed to the polls Thursday. Braving torrential rains in some parts of...
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Zach Braff, Working Title Team On Black List Script ‘Bump’
EXCLUSIVE: Zach Braff has committed to direct Bump, the black comic script by Ori Guendelman and Rob McClelland that made the 2015 Black List. Working Title is backing the project, and WT partners Tim...
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Working Title Options Tamara Mellon’s ‘In My Shoes’ To Fashion Feature Comedy...
EXCLUSIVE: Working Title is slipping into some Jimmy Choos. I’ve learned the prolific UK-based production company has optioned In My Shoes, the autobiography of Jimmy Choo co-founder Tamara Mellon,...
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Stephen Frears’‘Victoria And Abdul’ Adds Ali Fazal And Eddie Izzard; Working...
EXCLUSIVE: Bollywood actor Ali Fazal (Happy Bhaag Jayegi, Furious 7) has boarded Stephen Frears’ Victoria and Abdul opposite the previously announced Judi Dench in the Working Title-BBC-Focus Features...
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‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ Delivering $29.4M Offshore Bow; Breaks Multiple UK...
With $13M in 39 international markets through Friday, the third installment in the Bridget Jones franchise is on track to deliver a $29.4M offshore opening weekend. Universal Pictures, Studiocanal and...
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Working Title Hits $1B Milestone At UK Box Office
It's official: Working Title Films is king of the UK box office. This weekend, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan's powerhouse production banner became the first British company to earn $1B (£770M) at the UK...
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Oh, Baby! ‘Bridget Jones’ Threequel Becomes UK’s No. 1 Movie Of 2016;...
EXCLUSIVE: On its way to $200 million worldwide, Bridget Jones's Baby has become the biggest movie of 2016 in the UK with £46.27M through Monday — passing The Jungle Book‘s £46.2M in under seven weeks....
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Working Title In Talks With Paul Dano For 1970s Hitman Thriller ‘The Englishman’
EXCLUSIVE: Here's a hot international project cooking up at the moment: Brit production powerhouse Working Title is in talks with Paul Dano to star in its new European hitman feature The Englishman,...
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Pablo Trapero To Direct English-Language Feature ‘Thin Skinned Animal’ For...
EXCLUSIVE: Pablo Trapero, one of Argentina’s most prominent filmmakers, has been tapped to direct his first English-language title, Thin Skinned Animal, for Euro major Studiocanal and Brit production...
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Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon & Ray Winstone In Talks For...
EXCLUSIVE: It looks like Working Title may have found its Diamond Geezers. Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon and Ray Winstone are in talks to play the unlikely gang of elderly London robbers...
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