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EXCLUSIVE: In a seven-figure deal, Universal Pictures has optioned The Chain, the 2019 bestselling novel by Adrian McKinty. Baby Driver helmer Edgar Wright will direct, while Jane Goldman (Kingsman: The Golden Circle and X-Men: First Class) is writing the script. The novel had been in talks to be acquired by Paramount…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal/Working Title's Johnny English Strikes Again crossed the $100M mark at the international box office late last week and now has an offshore cume of $108.6M through Sunday. In North America this weekend, the opening was just $1.6M at a limited 554 sites, but the true domestic market on these movies…

EXCLUSIVE: Alexandra Loewy has been hired as president of the U.S. film operations of Working Title Pictures. The appointment was made by co-chairmen Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Loewy most recently was most recently SVP Production and Development at Di Bonaventura Pictures. Longtime president Liza Chasin segued to…

At a time when Hollywood studio movie making will steer even more aggressively toward global tent poles with the Disney acquisition of Fox, Working Title partners Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan continue to be those outliers who’ve used the harbor provided them by Universal Pictures to swim against the tide with…

Liza Chasin, the longtime president of Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner’s Working Title Films who joined the company 26 years ago, will leave at year’s end to transition into producing. The move has just been announced internally at Working Title (see the memo below). This comes at a time when the Universal-based production…

Brit production powerhouse Working Title Films has picked up rights to the life story of Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini, the teenage Olympian refugee who dragged a dinghy of refugees to safety across the Aegean Sea. Working Title co-chairman Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will develop and produce a film version of her…

EXCLUSIVE: Jackie Collins’ 10-novel series based based around mob daughter Lucky Santangelo is headed for the big screen. Universal Pictures has acquired the book series, which will be produced by Monumental Pictures partners Debra Hayward & Alison Owen, and Working Title partners Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner. Moira…

It's official: Working Title Films is king of the UK box office. This weekend, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan's powerhouse production banner became the first British company to earn $1B (£770M) at the UK box office, thanks to the release of Bridget Jones's Baby, which has so far earned $41.1M in the UK after three weeks…

EXCLUSIVE: A decade after StudioCanal acquired Optimum Releasing to establish a base in the UK, the company is consolidating its position as the country’s leading indie. Buoyed by the full support of deep-pocketed corporate parent Vivendi, StudioCanal UK is becoming a content powerhouse across film an TV. Its slate…

EXCLUSIVE: The Theory Of Everything helmer James Marsh is back together with Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, set to direct a caper pic about the unlikely gang of retirees that pulled off the daring Hatton Garden jewelry heist of 2015. Working Title last month closed a deal for rights to a Vanity Fair…

EXCLUSIVE: Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are planning a caper pic about the unlikely gang of retirees that pulled off the daring Hatton Garden jewelry heist of 2015. They’ve closed a deal for a Vanity Fair article by Mark Seal headlined”The Over the Hill Mob,” which was published in the March…

EXCLUSIVE: Working Title has acquired film rights to Delia Ephron's upcoming novel Siracusa. Ephron will adapt and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl helmer Alfonso Gomez-Rejon will direct. Working Title’s Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan and Liza Chasin will produce, and Ephron will be exec producer. The novel will be the lead…