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Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner say there is “a real opportunity” in the sub-$15m budget feature film space, but that “films need to cost less money, and they need to be bolder in that space.”

Speaking in their Screen Talk at the 68th BFI London Film Festival, Bevan cited – without naming - a film Working Title has just made up in Manchester “that completely falls into that – one of the most energetic and fun movies we’ve done.”

Working Title shot Alicia MacDonald’s romantic comedy Cc: Emily, starring Spike Fearn and Angourie Rice, in Manchester this late summer/autumn.

Exclusive: Mare of Easttown star Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn (Ella McCay) are leading a UK-set romcom for Focus Features, Working Title and Parkville Pictures.

Cc: Emily is the debut directorial feature project for Alicia MacDonald, who has helmed episodes of Lena Dunham’s Too Much, Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws and Kirstie Swain’s Pure for Netflix, BBC-Amazon and Channel 4 respectively. Rachel Hirons (A Guide to Second Date Sex) is penning the movie, which has just started principal photography on location in Manchester, UK.

Cc: Emily follows a lovesick musician, played by Fearn. When he is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student (Rice) to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way.

Australian star Rice broke out playing Kate Winslet’s daughter Siobhan in HBO smash...