Sky To Develop Major UK Studio At Elstree With Backing From Comcast
Sky is to develop a major new UK studio for TV and film productions at Elstree with the backing of its parent company Comcast. The cost of the investment was not disclosed. The British broadcaster will...
View ArticleHow ‘Cats’ Became A Calamity At The Box Office With $6.5M Opening
The atrocious response from audiences and critics toward the feature adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats has no doubt upset execs at Universal and Working Title this weekend. The movie wound up...
View Article‘Cats’ Bound To Lose At Least $71M After All Ancillaries: Here’s How
EXCLUSIVE: No amount of star power from Taylor Swift, James Corden, Idris Elba, Jason Derulo, etc., nor the direction of Oscar-winner Tom Hooper, could save Cats at the global box office. Our finance...
View Article‘Riviera’ Producer Archery Pictures Hires Working Title’s Georgina...
Archery Pictures, the UK production outfit behind Sky drama Riviera, has hired Working Title Television’s Georgina Gordon-Smith to the newly-created role of head of development. Gordon-Smith was a...
View ArticleRalph Fiennes Attached To Play Miss Trunchbull In Netflix & Working Title’s...
Ralph Fiennes is attached to star as Miss Trunchbull in Netflix and Working Title’s movie Matilda, we understand. The film is based on the popular musical stage play version of Roald Dahl’s classic...
View Article‘Yesterday’ Net Profit Statement Shows It’s The Same Old Song On Hollywood...
EXCLUSIVE: When the Danny Boyle-directed fable Yesterday was released last June, it was viewed as a bright spot for counter-programming at a moment when Toy Story 4 owned the box office leading into...
View ArticleEva Green & Eve Hewson On Why ‘The Luminaries’ Is Like A Western With Complex...
Eva Green watched Once Upon A Time In The West while filming The Luminaries in New Zealand, and although she was seven thousand miles away from Utah, she need only have stepped out on-set to feel like...
View ArticleLily James, Shazad Latif & Emma Thompson To Star In Working Title Rom-Com...
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. We can reveal that Lily James (Baby Driver), Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery) and Emma Thompson (Beauty And The Beast) have been set to star in a new Working Title...
View ArticleLena Dunham & Working Title Gear Up To Shoot Medieval Comedy ‘Catherine,...
Girls creator and star Lena Dunham is gearing up to shoot longtime passion project Catherine, Called Birdy in the UK. Dunham has scripted and will direct the film which will follow the adventures of a...
View ArticleRobert Maxwell TV Drama Being Developed At Working Title Based On Book By ‘A...
Working Title has optioned TV rights to author John Preston’s (A Very English Scandal, The Dig) new non-fiction book Fall: the Mystery of Robert Maxwell. The book, published by Viking on February 4,...
View Article‘The Borrowers’ Reboot From Universal & Working Title In Works; Conrad Vernon...
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Working Title have an updated feature version of The Borrowers in development, based on the Mary Norton book series of the same name. Sausage Party and The Addams...
View ArticleWorking Title Adapting Alison Rose Greenberg’s ‘Bad Luck Bridesmaid’ Into...
EXCLUSIVE: Working Title is developing an adaptation of Bad Luck Bridesmaid: A Novel, the upcoming book about Zoey Marks, the cursed bridesmaid that no engagement can survive, into a movie. Alison Rose...
View ArticleEddie Gallagher Limited Series In Works By Will Staples, Working Title & The...
EXCLUSIVE: The story of former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher is in the works for the small screen. Will Staples (Without Remorse, The Right Stuff) has teamed with Working Title and The New York Times to...
View ArticleWorking Title Options Ruth Ware’s Haunted House Thriller ‘The Turn Of The...
EXCLUSIVE: Working Title has optioned rights to best-selling author Ruth Ware’s haunted house thriller The Turn of the Key. Max Minghella (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Jamie Bell (Rocketman) have signed on...
View ArticleEmma Appleton & Bel Powley Starring In Dolly Alderton Adaptation ‘Everything...
Emma Appleton (The Witcher) and Bel Powley (The Morning Show) have been set to lead the cast of Everything I Know About Love, the series that Dolly Alderton’s is writing based on her own hit memoir....
View Article‘We Are Lady Parts’ Creator Nida Manzoor Helming Feature Debut ‘Polite...
British writer and director Nida Manzoor, whose credits include creating the Channel 4 series We Are Lady Parts, has wrapped production in London on her debut feature Polite Society. The film is an...
View ArticleEthan Coen Sets Next Feature With Focus And Working Title
After watching his brother and long time collaborator Joel Coen direct The Tragedy of Macbeth to critical acclaim, Ethan Coen is now eyeing his own directing assignment as sources tell Deadline he has...
View Article‘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...
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