Tim Bevan Filmography

The Soloist

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey, Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Rachael Harris

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Soloist follows a musical prodigy (Jamie Foxx) whose bouts with schizophrenia landed him on the streets after two years of schooling at Juilliard. Pride & Prejudice's Joe Wright directs from a script by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich). Robert Downey Jr. and Catherine Keener Read More

Bobby Fischer Goes to War

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The Last King of Scotland's Kevin MacDonald helms the true story of Bobby Fischer's globally covered chess match in 1972 against Soviet Boris Spassky in this Universal Pictures co-production with Working Title Films. Shawn Slovo provides the script based on David Edmonds and John Eidinow's book. Read More

A Serious Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed, Richard Kind, Aaron Wolf, Sari Wagner, Jessica McManus

Synopsis: Filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen write, produce, and direct this period black comedy set in 1967 concerning a Midwestern physics professor whose staid and stable life slowly begins to unravel after his wife announces that she's leaving him. As if the failure of his longtime marriage wasn't Read More

Hippie Hippie Shake

Crew: Producer

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Max Minghella, Emma Booth

Synopsis: The landmark obscenity trial surrounding a satirical Australian magazine becomes a metaphor for a wild ride through swinging 1960s-era London in director Beeban Kidron's adaptation of Richard Neville's memoir Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, the Screw Ups: The Read More

Baby Driver

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Shaun of the Dead's Edgar Wright writes and directs a takeoff of the action crime genre with this Working Title production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

The World's End

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The screenwriting team of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) are back with The World's End, another comedy hybrid film with Wright once again in the director's seat. Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner produce alongside Big Talk Productions' Nira Park. ~ Jeremy Read More

The Boat That Rocked

Crew: Producer

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis: A group of pirate-radio DJs duck the British government in this 1960s period comedy from romantic comedy guru Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary). Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rhys Ifans play competitive disc jockeys who work under Bill Nighy on a busted-down boat on the English Read More

Frost/Nixon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Matthew MacFadyen, Oliver Platt, Sam Rockwell

Synopsis: Hollywood heavyweight Ron Howard adapts playwright Peter Morgan's West End hit for the silver screen with this feature focusing on the 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella). At the time Nixon sat down with Read More

Burn After Reading

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: A CIA agent who is currently in the process of writing a book loses the disc containing his only manuscript in this comedic tale of espionage that reunites filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen with Intolerable Cruelty and O Brother, Where Art Thou? star George Clooney. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

Wild Child

Crew: Producer

Actors: Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson, Shirley Henderson, Aidan Quinn, Alex Pettyfer

Synopsis: The unhinged behavior of a Malibu princess (Emma Roberts) prompts her frustrated father to send her to an all-girls English boarding school in this teen comedy penned by Lucy Dahl (daughter of Roald Dahl and a boarding school alumni herself) and directed by Nick Moore. Poppy is a bratty Read More

Sixty Six

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gregg Sulkin, Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Marsan, Catherine Tate, Peter Serafinowicz

Synopsis: A 12-year-old Jewish boy teetering on the cusp of manhood finds his eagerly anticipated Bar Mitzvah threatened by a lethal combination of World Cup fever, the loss of the family business, and the shenanigans of a mischievous elder sibling in a coming-of-age comedy directed by Paul Weiland and Read More

Definitely, Maybe

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Derek Luke, Abigail Breslin, Elizabeth Banks

Synopsis: A political consultant in the midst of a bitter divorce attempts to delicately divulge the truth about his past relationships to his curious young daughter, who simply won't stop asking questions until she's satisfied with all the answers. Ten-year-old Maya (Abigail Breslin) is heartbroken to see Read More

State of Play

Crew: Producer

Actors: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn

Synopsis: The Last King of Scotland director Kevin McDonald teams with screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan to direct an American adaptation of the hit British miniseries concerning a reporter's (Russell Crowe) murder investigation of a powerful congressman's (Ben Affleck) mistress. Once a close personal Read More

The Green Zone

Crew: Producer

Actors: Matt Damon, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Jason Isaacs, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: United 93 director Paul Greengrass explores the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in this feature adaptation of author Rajiv Chandrasekaran's literary exposé of the same name. A one-time Baghdad bureau chief of the Washington Post, Chandrasekaran was present as American forces attempted to set up a Read More

Frontline: Storm Over Everest

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David Breashears

Synopsis: Over ten years after risking life and limb in one of the most treacherous rescue missions ever recorded, world-renowned climber and filmmaker David Breashears returns to Mt. Everest to tell the tale of what really happened on that fateful day of May 10, 1996. As darkness fell over Mt. Everest and Read More

Atonement

Crew: Producer

Actors: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: A mischievous girl accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit, only to find that her words have irrevocably and permanently changed the lives of all involved in a film that re-teams the filmmakers behind Pride & Prejudice to adapt the best-selling 2002 novel by author Ian Read More

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Crew: Producer

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Rhys Ifans, Jordi Mollà

Synopsis: Actress Cate Blanchett returns to her Oscar-nominated role and director Shekhar Kapur steps back into the director's chair for this belated sequel to the critically acclaimed 1998 biopic Elizabeth that explores the 16th century romance between the "Virgin Queen" and noted adventurer Sir Walter Read More

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Jean Rochefort, Karel Roden, Max Baldry, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: Mr. Bean -- the stick-legged goofball man-child created by Rowan Atkinson on television in the early '90s, and in the 1997 feature Bean -- undertakes his second cinematic adventure in the comic romp Mr. Bean's Holiday. Growing thoroughly sick of the wet, cold, and clammy London weather, Mr. Bean (Atkinson Read More

Hot Fuzz

Crew: Producer

Actors: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Timothy Dalton

Synopsis: A top London cop who is so good at his job that he makes his fellow officers look like slackers by comparison is "promoted" to serve in the sleepy village of Sandford in this contemporary action comedy from the creators of Shaun of the Dead. Police constable Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) always gets Read More

Smokin' Aces

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven

Synopsis: When a shifty magician turns state's evidence against a Las Vegas underworld heavy, the high price placed on his head sparks a fevered race to rub the snitch out and collect a tidy paycheck in Narc director Joe Carnahan's dark action comedy. Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a small time Read More

Catch a Fire

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho K. Masha

Synopsis: An apolitical South African oil-refinery worker and soccer coach is forced into terrorism as a means of fighting back against the brutality of the apartheid regime in director Phillip Noyce's dramatic look at the life of one-time political prisoner and freedom fighter Patrick Chamusso. In the Read More

Gone

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Scott Mechlowicz, Amelia Warner, Shaun Evans, Zoe Tuckwell-Smith

Synopsis: The Ringan Ledwidge-directed, Andrew Upton and James Watkins-scripted psychological thriller Gone (a U.S.-British-Australian co-production) follows in the footsteps of such shockers as The Company of Strangers and Kalifornia, as several innocent, unwitting young travelers inadvertently find Read More

United 93

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert, Ray Charleson, Christian Clemenson

Synopsis: Bloody Sunday director Paul Greengrass marks the five-year anniversary on the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States with this speculative meditation on the events that took place onboard the fourth hijacked plane, and the actions of the passengers who gave their lives to Read More

Nanny McPhee

Crew: Producer

Actors: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly MacDonald, Patrick Barlow, Thomas Sangster

Synopsis: A nanny reveals ways of making children behave that are much more effective than a time-out in this fantasy comedy based on the "Nurse Matilda" books for children by Christianna Brand. Near the dawn of the twentieth century, Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) is a widower who must tend to his business as an Read More

Pride & Prejudice

Crew: Producer

Actors: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Judi Dench

Synopsis: Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennetts (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their Read More

The Interpreter

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal

Synopsis: An overheard conversation leads a woman into a dark world of deadly intrigue in this political thriller. Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an African émigré who works as an interpreter at the United Nations. One of the languages she understands is Ku, a dialect spoken in her home country of Matobo. Read More

Rory O'Shea Was Here

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai, Gerard McSorley, Tom Hickey, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Two guys facing more challenges than most people learn some valuable lessons about life and love in this comedy drama. Michael Connolly (Steven Robertson) is a young man in his early twenties who suffers from cerebral palsy; confined to a wheelchair, Michael's speech is unintelligible to all but a Read More

Jonjo & Mickybo

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adrian Dunbar, Ciarán Hinds, Gina McKee, Susan Lynch, Julie Walters

Synopsis: Terry Loane's period comedy-drama Jonjo and Mickybo (also released under the title Mickybo and Me) unravels in Belfast, Ireland circa 1970, at the outset of the violence that began to erupt at that time and plagued the country for decades. It observes the allegorical friendship that develops Read More

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Crew: Producer

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones

Synopsis: Based on author Helen Fielding's sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks after the original film left off, with Bridget (Renée Zellweger) emotionally satisfied at long last with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), her barrister boyfriend. Stability in Bridget's Read More

Thunderbirds

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards, Sophia Myles, Ben Kingsley, Brady Corbet

Synopsis: Directed by Jonathan Frakes and based on the '60s British television series of the same name, Thunderbirds chronicles the intergalactic exploits of the Tracy family. Set in 2010, the world looks toward the mysterious Tracy Island when mere international security is not enough; the remote South Read More

Shaun of the Dead

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Lucy Davis

Synopsis: It's often said that the true character of a man is only revealed in times of dire crisis, and for likable, lovelorn loser Shaun (Simon Pegg), that moment of reckoning came when the dead rose from their slumber to feast on the flesh of the living. A hapless electronics store employee who spends Read More

Wimbledon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jon Favreau, Sam Neill, Austin Nichols

Synopsis: Directed by Richard Loncraine, Wimbledon follows the plight of aspiring tennis-star Peter Colt (Paul Bettany), whose bad luck seems to manifest itself just about everywhere. Professionally, Peter is near the very bottom of the world tennis ranks, and personally, he can't find love despite his best Read More

The Calcium Kid

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Orlando Bloom, Omid Djalili, Michael Peña, Michael Lerner, Tamer Hassan

Love Actually

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Martine McCutcheon, Keira Knightley, Rowan Atkinson, Andrew Lincoln

Synopsis: All of London is in love -- or longing to be -- in Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis' first directorial effort. Billed as "the ultimate romantic comedy," Love Actually involves more than a dozen main characters, each weaving his or her way into another's heart over the course of Read More

Thirteen

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Jeremy Sisto, Brady Corbet

Synopsis: Prolific production designer and art director Catherine Hardwicke makes her directorial debut with the coming-of-age drama Thirteen. Los Angeles teenager and overachiever Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) is an excellent student in her seventh grade class and gets along well with her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter Read More

The Italian Job

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green, Jason Statham

Synopsis: A team of high-class thieves avenge their mentor's death -- with the help of his own daughter -- in this big-budget remake of the 1969 British caper classic. The Italian Job stars Mark Wahlberg as Charlie, the mastermind of a daring Venice heist overseen by John (Donald Sutherland), a lifelong Read More

The Shape of Things

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gretchen Mol, Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Frederick Weller

Synopsis: After a detour into lighter and more compassionate fare with Nurse Betty and Possession, Neil LaBute returns to the themes of his earlier films with this dark and corrosive look at male-female relationships. Adam (Paul Rudd) is a chubby, bespectacled nebbish of a college student who makes money in Read More

Johnny English

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia, Ben Miller, Douglas McFerran

Synopsis: An unhinged parody of James Bond theatrics, Johnny English finds Mr. Bean himself suiting up as the eponymous super spy for a series of wild and silly adventures. A lowly pencil pusher working for the MI7 agency, Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is Read More

Ned Kelly

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush, Rachel Griffiths

Synopsis: Gregor Jordan's version of the Australian legend Ned Kelly stars Heath Ledger as the title outlaw. Sixteen-year-old Irish immigrant Ned is sentenced to three years in prison for stealing a horse. After his release he finds work tending to horses owned by Richard Cook (Nicholas Bell), whose wife (Naomi Watts Read More

The Guru

Crew: Producer

Actors: Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Jimi Mistry, Michael McKean, Christine Baranski

Synopsis: A visitor from the mysterious East arrives in New York -- not to offer the wisdom of the ages, but to make it big as a dancer in this "fish-out-of-water" comedy. Ramu Chandra Gupta (Jimi Mistry) grew up in India on a steady diet of movie musicals, particularly local Bollywood spectaculars and Read More

Gettin' Square

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sam Worthington, David Wenham, Timothy Spall, Freya Stafford, David Field

Synopsis: Australian filmmaker Jonathan Teplitzky directs the crime comedy Gettin' Square. Barry Wirth (Sam Worthington) is an ex-con who just wants to stay on the right side of the law. David Wenham plays Johnny "Spit" Spitieri, a zany, lovable drug addict who knew Barry in prison. They both get paroled by Read More

About a Boy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz

Synopsis: London's most frequently eligible bachelor gets some lessons in growing up from a maladroit 12-year-old boy in this third big-screen adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel, directed and co-written by siblings Chris and Paul Weitz of American Pie fame. About a Boy concerns the parallel coming-of-age Read More

40 Days and 40 Nights

Crew: Producer

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Paulo Costanzo

Synopsis: Following memorable roles in the military action-adventures Pearl Harbor (2001) and Black Hawk Down (2001), young actor Josh Hartnett is propelled to romantic leading man status with this semi-autobiographical comedy from screenwriter Rob Perez. Hartnett stars as Matt Sullivan, a young man Read More

My Little Eye

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sean CW Johnson, Kristopher Lemche, Stephen O'Reilly, Laura Regan, Jennifer Sky

Synopsis: Picking up where the multitudes of late '90s/early 2000s reality-based television shows left off is the unexpectedly shocking horror film My Little Eye, from director Marc Evans. Five twentysomethings are assembled to live together for a period of six months in a house specially outfitted with a Read More

Ali G Indahouse

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sacha Baron Cohen, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Britain's satirist-of-all-trades Ali G (aka Sacha Baron Cohen) makes his feature-film debut with this gross-out comedy set against the backdrop of the House of Parliament. Where his British and U.S. TV shows had him conducting absurd interviews with real-life politicians and lawmakers, Ali G Read More

The Man Who Wasn't There

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Tony Shalhoub

Synopsis: Set in a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There stars Billy Bob Thornton as Ed Crane, a humble barber who suspects his hard-hearted and hard-drinking wife Doris (Frances McDormand) of having an affair with her boss (James Gandolfini). When Read More

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale, David Morrissey

Synopsis: Louis de Bernières' best-selling novel of love during wartime is brought to the screen in this story that blends comedy, action, and romance. In 1940, war rages throughout Europe, but the fighting has yet to arrive on the Greek island of Cephallonia, where life continues to follow its own slow Read More

The Man Who Cried

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, John Turturro, Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In this historical drama with music, a gifted singer (Oleg Yankovsky) from a Jewish village in Russia travels to the United States in 1927, leaving behind his young daughter Fegele (Claudia Lander-Duke). Father has promised his family that he'll send for Fegele as soon as he can, but authorities Read More

Bridget Jones's Diary

Crew: Producer

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: Based on Helen Fielding's hugely popular novel, this romantic comedy follows Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a post-feminist, thirty-something British woman who has a penchant for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her weight. While trying to keep these things in check and also deal Read More

Further Tales of the City

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Paul Hopkins, Laura Linney, Barbara Garrick

Synopsis: Armistead Maupin's colorful saga of life in San Francisco in the 1970s continues in this miniseries, the third following the characters of his serialized novel Tales of the City, which follows the story into 1981. After his relationship with Jon Fielding (Bill Campbell) comes to an end, Michael Read More

Long Time Dead

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joe Absolom, Lara Belmont, Melanie Gutteridge, Lukas Haas, James Hillier

Synopsis: For his debut feature film, writer/director Marcus Adams helmed this independent occult horror flick set in the U.K. Long Time Dead tells the story of a group of college students who find themselves playing with a homemade Ouija board late one night. Not taking the game seriously, they unwittingly Read More

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, John Goodman

Synopsis: The writing, directing, and producing team of Joel Coen and Ethan Coen created this picaresque comedy (inspired in part by Homer's The Odyssey) set in the Deep South during the Depression. Suave and fancy-talking Everett Ulysses McGill (George Clooney), dim-witted Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) Read More

High Fidelity

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, Lisa Bonet

Synopsis: A man discovers that there's more to love than a good mixed tape in this dramatic comedy about music and relationships. Rob (John Cusack), an obsessive record collector in his mid-thirties, is struggling to reconcile his adolescent enthusiasm for pop music with adult responsibilities and a more Read More

Plunkett & Macleane

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Liv Tyler, Ken Stott, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: A historical comedy that applies a 1990's mindset to a tale of crime in the 1740's, Plunkett and Macleane stars