Billy Elliot The Musical

TIM BEVAN & ERIC FELLNER

Founded in 1983, Working Title Films has been co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner since 1992. Between them, the pair has produced more than 95 feature films which have amassed over $4.5 billion at the box office worldwide. To date, their films have won 6 Academy Awards, 26 BAFTAs and won prestigious prizes at the Cannes and Berlin film festivals. Bevan and Fellner have also been honoured with two of the highest film awards given to British filmmakers: the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema at the 2004 BAFTAs and the Alexander Walker Film Award at the Evening Standard British Film Awards in 2005. They were both recently made CBEs.

Working Title Films is Europe’s most prolific production company as well as the pre-eminent producer of English-language films outside the United States. The company has produced a roster of films that have defied boundaries as well as demographics. Among their commercial and critical hits are Green Zone, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Frost Nixon; Burn After Reading; A Serious Man; The Soloist; The Boat That Rocked; Atonement; Pride & Prejudice; United 93; Nanny McPhee; The Interpreter; About a Boy; Notting Hill; Elizabeth; Fargo; Dead Man Walking; Bean; High Fidelity; Johnny English; Billy Elliot; Four Weddings and a Funeral; Bridget Jones’s Diary; Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason; O Brother Where Art Thou?; Love Actually; Mr. Bean’s Holiday; Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Working Title’s next feature will be Paul, directed by Greg Motolla and written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Working Title has recently announced the creation of a new television production company, WTTV. Based in LA and London, WTTV is a joint venture between NBC Universal International, Bevan and Fellner.