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Working Title Films, Focus Features, and Compete Fiction Pictures have teamed on the film rights to develop Simon Stephenson’s debut novel Set My Heart to Five, with Baby Driver helmer Edgar Wright attached to direct. The book is slated for release later this year via HarperCollins imprints Hanover Square Press (U.S.)…

Who needs a superhero when you have a.. Johnny English? Universal and Working Title have just dropped the first trailer for newly titled Johnny English Strikes Again. The third installment in the lucrative franchise which will see British spy English (played by Rowan Atkinson) take his very particular set of…

Reaction continues to roll in amid the Harvey Weinstein affair, and today we’re hearing from a voice across the pond. Eric Fellner, who has led London-based Working Title Films alongside Tim Bevan since 1992, put out a blistering takedown of the former Weinstein Company exec that’s more personal than most we’ve…

Stephen Dillane has joined the cast of Working Title Films' Winston Churchill project Darkest Hour, directed by Joe Wright and starring Gary Oldman as the legendary British Prime Minister. Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the title, which has begun production in the UK, and is releasing it domestically on…

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…

Universal and Working Title have tapped Kick Ass‘s Chloë Grace Moretz to star in a new live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson, if the film tracks the original story, expect a far more bittersweet tale than the one that has filtered into popular culture thanks…

EXCLUSIVE: Amber Heard is in talks to join Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl for the strong supporting role of Oola opposite Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Testament Of Youth). The film sees director and producer Hooper re-teaming with Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. The trio…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has re-upped Working Title Films partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner through 2015. This comes after the studio re-upped Imagine Entertainment in January, keeping the studio’s most tenured production companies in the fold. Like Universal chairman Adam Fogelson and co-chairman Donna Langley…

EXCLUSIVE: The Full Monty helmer Peter Cattaneo is in talks to direct Bridget Jones’s Baby, the Universal Pictures/Working Title sequel that brings back Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Shooting begins early next year. The directing assignment has been open since early October, when Bridesmaids helmer Paul…

In its second full development cycle, Working Title Television has sold six series projects in broadcast and cable. This is the largest slate in the 21-month history of the TV production company, a joint venture between NBCUniversal International and Working Title Films' Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner that in July…

BREAKING: Anne Hathaway has closed a deal to join Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe in Les Miserables, the Universal Pictures and Working Title Films musical adaptation of the stage play and classic novel. Hathaway will play Fantine, and her participation had been rumored for some time. Crowe plays Inspector Javert and…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Working Title Films will need a new director for Bridget Jones 3, and I hear they want a Brit. Paul Feig has withdrawn after developing the most recent draft of the script with the intention to direct. I’m told that both sides agreed it didn’t work out and that maybe this is just a…