Confab honor for producers

CinemaExpo to fete Working Title's Bevan, Fellner

By JILL GOLDSMITH

NEW YORK -- Working Title Films' Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will be honored as 2001 producers of the year at CinemaExpo Intl., the worldwide exhib confab that opens in Amsterdam next month.

The 16-year-old Working Title most recently produced "Bridget Jones's Diary" and boasts a string of strong pics from "Billy Elliot" to "O Brother, Where Art Thou," "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Elizabeth," "Fargo" and "Notting Hill," the highest- grossing British romantic comedy in the U.K.