WORKING TITLE
ERIC FELLNER AND TIM BEVAN (Producers)
Co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner since its establishment
in 1982, Working Title Films is Europe's leading film production
company. The company has produced more than 70 films, with a
combined worldwide gross in excess of two and a half billion
dollars, won 4 Academy Awards, 20 British Academy Awards and
numerous prizes at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals. Their
credits include the hugely successful romantic comedies: FOUR
WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, NOTTING HILL, BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY
and LOVE ACTUALLY; the Academy-Award winning: DEAD MAN WALKING,
FARGO and ELIZABETH; as well as the International critical and
commercial successes: BEAN, THE HUDSUCKER PROXY, O' BROTHER
WHERE ART THOU? and BILLY ELLIOT.
Forthcoming productions for Working Title include BRIDGET JONES:
THE EDGE OF REASON, directed by Beeban Kidron with Renee Zellweger
again starring as Bridget alongside Colin Firth's Darcy and
Hugh Grant's Cleaver; THUNDERBIRDS directed by Jonathan Frakes
starring Sir Ben Kingsley, Bill Paxton and Anthony Edwards;
WIMBLEDON, a romantic comedy starring Kirsten Dunst and Paul
Bettany and directed by Richard Loncraine; THE INTERPRETER directed
by Sydney Pollack starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn and NANNY
MCPHEE directed by Kirk Jones, written by and starring Emma
Thompson and Colin Firth.
JON FINN (Producer)
Jon started in the film industry as a production manager then
line producer on several feature films and major television
dramas. In 1996 he joined the production department at Working
Title Films overseeing all of Working Title's feature films
and television projects at that time. A year later he helped
David Goldesgeyne set up the Jerwood Film Prize and produced
the Bafta nominated short film EIGHT, Stephen Daldry's film
directing debut.
In 1999 Jon along with Natascha Wharton set up WT2, Working
Title's low budget film label. In the same year he produced
Billy Elliot. His next project was the digital thriller MY LITTLE
EYE, directed by Marc Evans. In 2001 Jon left WT2, to concentrate
purely on producing and to develop EVEREST with Stephen Daldry.
Jon's company, Big Pond, now has a slate of films developed
in association with Working Title Films, Stephen Daldry Pictures,
The Film Council and the directors Marc Evans and Ringan Ledwidge.
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