Unit 8.1

Working Title films is a british film production company based in London owned by Universal Studio’s. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Raddclyfee in 1983. The company produces film and some television shows. Eric Fellner and Bevan have become co-chairs of the company. The structure of how Working Title had come around had started of with Comcast, an American provide of entertainment, information and communication products and services. Which was followed by NBC universal, they market entertainment, news and more. Then, it’s followed by Universal Studio’s an American motion picture studio owned by Comcast. Lastly, Working Title is owned by Universal. They’ve filmed such as Green zone, Johnny English Reborn, Die hard with a Vengance, James Bond and recently they had created Les Miserables. They have a huge range of an audience from different ages, race, classes. For example, the green zone it is mostly targeted to middle aged people because they are scenes that are older will understand, since a child will not be able to watch because of the disgusting scenes, where people are being killed. However, for films such as Nanny Mcphee, it is aimed at a younger audience, children because they are scenes in the film, children will understand and enjoy. In 2004, they made a profit of 17.8 million. As of 2007, all of it’s films disturbed by universal pictures, which owns a 67% stake in the company, and many of it’s recent films are co-productions with studio-canal.

They have three different headquarters around the world, the main one is in London and the other two are in Ireland and Los Angeles.