Yellow Bird (company)
Swedish media company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yellow Bird is a Swedish film and television production company. In 2003 Danish producer Ole Søndberg and Swedish author Henning Mankell started a collaboration on a series of television films based on Mankell’s famous fictional detective Kurt Wallander and Yellow Bird was born. The success of the initial Wallander films was followed by Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters, Liza Marklund’s Annika Bengtzon series as well as the British version of Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh.
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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Motion pictures Television |
Founded | 2003; 21 years ago (2003) |
Founder | Ole Søndberg Henning Mankell Lars Björkman |
Headquarters | Stockholm, Sweden Los Angeles, United States |
Key people | Jakob Feeney (CEO) |
Number of employees | 20 |
Parent | Zodiak Media (2007–2016) Banijay Entertainment (2016–present) |
Website | yellowbird |
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Yellow Bird was sold to the media conglomerate Zodiak Media in 2007.[1] Zodiak later merged with Banijay in 2016, which currently owns the company.