Tim Bevan: co-chair with Eric Fellner of Working Title Films: we talked to Tim Bevan about his role within Working Title Films and also about the role of the company itself. We then got talking about the funding involved, and found that universal pictures funds most of their projects and staff – universal pictures their partner company. He later wen on to talk about how big the production line for Working Titles Films is, and how they have around 50 films on the go, ranging from the idea stage, tot he editing stage – we later learnt that the average number of films that are produced yearly is 3-4.
There was then a question about piracy, and Tim replied that 'film is a big big fu**ing business', and that to avoid the route of the music industry, they were looking into new ideas I order to try and make films more accessible and cheap – one way in which he suggested was the creation of a cheap online film viewing service that would help to combat film piracy.
Tim then answered a different question, this time regarding the difficulties which may be caused by having different genres of films being made at the same time, in which he replied that yes there could be difficulties when switching between the two, but that in this type of job you need o be able to effectively do this. An example he gave was the editing of Johnny English 2 in one room and in the room next door the editing of a serious MI5 film.
When asked about his favourite part of creating a film he had two responses, for the first one he said his favourite part was the creation stage, when the ideas were flowing, and the other response was just before filming commenced, when all that cast, crew etc had been assembled and in his mind the film would and was perfect.
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