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- Formed in 1984, Working Title has more than 100 films that have grossed over $7.5 billion worldwide.
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Working Title Films Limited[ 1] is a British film studio that produces motion pictures and television programs and is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a division of Comcast. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983.
Working titles act as a creative catalyst during the development phase of film and television production. By offering a temporary label, they grant writers and directors the flexibility to evolve storylines without being tethered to a final title.
Formed in 1984, Working Title has more than 100 films that have grossed over $7.5 billion worldwide. Its films have won 14 Academy Awards®, 40 BAFTA Awards and numerous prestigious prizes at the Cannes and Berlin International Film Festivals.
Jun 30, 2024 · Working Title Films movies (65 titles): Blitz (2024), The Substance (2024), Polite Society (2023), Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022), The Swimmers (2022), Ticket to Paradise (2022).
Film TitleGenreRelease DateStatusDramaNovember 22, 2024Coming SoonDramaSeptember 20, 2024Coming SoonActionApril 28, 2023ReleasedFamilyDecember 25, 2022Released- Working Title: "Blue Harvest"
- Working Title: "Planet Ice"
- Working Title: "Rory’S First Kiss"
- Working Title: "Incident on 57th Street"
- Working Title: "How The Solar System Was Won"
- Working Title: "Star Beast"
- Working Title: "The Seven Deadly Sins"
- Working Title: "Paradox"
- Working Title: "Black Mask"
- Working Title: "Everybody Comes to Rick’S"
Actual Title: Return of the Jedi By the time filming on Return of the Jedi started in 1982, Star Wars was a gigantic pop culture phenomenon. Lucasfilm decided to use a working title to mask the film’s production from fans and film journalists. “Blue Harvest” was used throughout the film’s productionin the United States. “Blue Harvest” was allegedly...
Actual Title:Titanic Before the epic film Titanic was announced, director James Cameron began to shoot footage of icebergs off the coast of Nova Scotia under the guise he was making a film called “Planet Ice.” The reasoning behind the working title was to throw off any rival movie studio from making a movie based on Titanicbefore Cameron’s movie wa...
Actual Title:The Dark Knight When he was filming The Dark Knight in Chicago in 2007, director Christopher Nolan attempted to hide the true identity of the movie using the working title “Rory’s First Kiss." But the fake title wasn't enough to fool Batfans: When a casting call went out for "real police officers, sheriffs, county guards and bagpipers ...
Actual Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets To avoid attention from Harry Potter fans, the filmmakers behind Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets used the strange working title “Incident on 57th Street” throughout the film’s London shoot. Their inspiration? A Bruce Springsteen song of the same name.
Actual Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey Arguably the greatest film ever made, director Stanley Kubrick and screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke secretly referred to their 1968 science fiction collaboration as “How the Solar System Was Won,” a reference to the 1962 Western from MGM titled How the West Was Won. When Warner Bros officially announced the sci-fi p...
Actual Title: Alien Screenwriters Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett envisioned a new film that would be a science fiction and horror genre hybrid. Before settling on the title Alien, the pair’s screenplay was titled “Star Beast,” which was named after the terrifying Xenomorph alien in the movie. O’Bannon decided to change the title to simply Alienwhe...
Actual Title: Se7en In 1995, director David Fincher made a thriller called Se7en starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and Gwyneth Paltrow. The film was originally titled “The Seven Deadly Sins” because the film featured a serial killer who used the capital vicesas a way to murder his victims. The filmmakers changed the name of the film to build myst...
Actual Title:Back To The Future Part II “Paradox” was the title of the original pitch for the Back To The Futuresequels. Originally, the film was conceived as one movie, but when the film’s budget grew too expensive, the film was split into two separate sequel films. Director Robert Zemeckis continued to use the working title as a way to lessen fan...
Actual Title:Pulp Fiction When Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery were working on the screenplay for Pulp Fiction, they originally titled the film“Black Mask,” as a way to pay homage to the hardboiled crime fiction magazine that popularized the pulp fiction genre in the 1930s and '40s. Later, the pair changed the name to emphasize the genre rather t...
Actual Title:Casablanca The film Casablanca was based on a then-unproduced stage play called “Everybody Comes To Rick’s.” While the authors of the stage play, Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, couldn’t find funding to produce the play on Broadway, Warner Bros bought the film rights for $20,000 in 1942. The title was changed to Casablanca as a way to ...
Dec 10, 2023 · A working title is a temporary title given to a manuscript, film, or television series during its development stage. This title is not set in stone and can change multiple times during the creation process until the final version is settled upon.
Aug 16, 2024 · Working Title Films was founded in London in 1984 by producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe. Some of their early films were released through Atlantic Releasing Corporation, Miramax Films and Orion Pictures (under the Orion Classics label).
