Article: The hit: men: the powerhouse duo behind London's Working Title Films reaches far beyond romantic comedies.(EYE)

For a few weeks back in 1999, it looked as if the latest film by producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner was going to be a dud. During the first test screening of their romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, the audience sat totally pokerfaced. "We got no laughs whatsoever," remembers Richard Curtis, the screenwriter. "It looked like it was going straight to DVD."

But the cochairmen of Working Title Films, the London production company that had made its name with Four Weddings and a Funeral, weren't rattled. In fact, Fellner blurted out that he thought the film, then still in a very rough state, would make $300 million. Says Curtis, "Eric has this habit of ...

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