Working Title Partners Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner On 30 Years At Universal, Scores Of Hits And A Resolve To Diversify UK Film Crews: Q&A
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Usually content to let their logo on the front end of films speak for them, Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner spoke to Deadline in a prolific moment and a series of anniversaries that go beyond the 20th for their holiday classic Love Actually.
They reached 30 years together at a company that turns 40 next year. The duo scored a big hit in the George Clooney-Julia Roberts romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise, and have Matilda the Musical playing in UK theaters, and opening on Netflix elsewhere for Christmas, with the Lena Dunham-directed Catherine Called Birdy released by Amazon and The Swimmers by Netflix.
After playing the Toronto and Zurich festivals, it has ranked near the top of Netflix’s most watched films globally since its release.
Donna Langley, Chairman of NBCUniversal’s Filmed Entertainment Group, said when she got to the studio long ago, she quickly raised her hand to be the studio’s liaison, having been a fan of theirs since they burst onto the scene with Four Weddings and a Funeral and then formed a sort of repertory company with many of its participants from Hugh Grant to Rowan Atkinson to Richard Curtis. “I was a young ambitious Brit without a clue of the politics and when I asked to be a key exec on the Working Title account, they all just looked at me like, are you crazy?
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