Working Title Partners Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner Say Indie Films Must Be Cheaper & Bolder To Cut Through With Audiences — London Film Festival
deadline.comIndependent movies must be bolder and cheaper if they’re to cut through and help stabilize the business, Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner told a packed audience during a London Film Festival industry talk this afternoon.
The pair were joined on stage by BFI CEO Ben Roberts, who moderated the talk and whizzed through a series of detailed questions about Bevan and Fellner’s decades-long work together at Working Title.
Roberts asked the pair for their take on the current indie biz, and they had some advice for filmmakers working independently on smaller budgets. “Films need to cost less money and they need to be bolder in that space,” Fellner said.
The longtime producer used the example of Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes winning pic The Substance — which Working Title produced — to illustrate his idea, telling the audience that the movie has convinced him that “if something is really out there, people are interested.” “We will start to make more films under 15 million dollars and try to be really bold and attract people to the films and bring people back to the cinema,” he said.
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