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Special Treats Productions is a London based production company.

Background
The name was originally used by founders David Castell and Colin Burrows as a shorthand for their freelance work together, taken from a label placed on the VHS box of THE RUTLES when it went to sell through in 1983 – “Special Treat –the making of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”.

David Castell was the film correspondent of Capital Radio and the film critic of the Sunday Telegraph and Colin Burrows was his producer at Capital Radio. As their film workload increased, they incorporated Special Treats as a company in 1987 and since then have worked around the world with all the Hollywood studios and most of the major film makers in the US and the UK.

They are perhaps best known for their long relationship with the James Bond series having worked on every film since The Living Daylights in 1987 but they also have long term associations with many other leading film-makers, in particular Mike Leigh, Richard Curtis and Kenneth Branagh.

In 2013, Special Treats co-produced Abhay Deol’s film Bounty Hunter.