Studiocanal has signed the individual answerable for establishing Netflix manufacturing hubs round Europe as its new TV boss.
M-Okay Kennedy, who has spent the previous few years because the streamer’s VP Manufacturing, Europe, has joined the Paris Has Fallen outfit as Govt Managing Director of TV Collection, reporting to CEO Anna Marsh and primarily based in London. She succeeds Françoise Guyonnet, who has grow to be EVP of Children Manufacturers on the Paddington outfit because it pushes additional into the house.
She’s going to oversee a workforce that at the moment has sequence in 16 languages together with the likes of the TV model of the Has Fallen franchise starring Gerard Butler and Thomas Vinterberg’s Households Like Ours. Previous reveals together with Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin.
Kennedy takes on the profitable gig after spending the previous seven years as Netflix’s Vice President of Manufacturing for Europe, primarily based in Amsterdam. There, she constructed the manufacturing groups answerable for Netflix’ local-language sequence and movies originating from France, Italy, Spain & Portugal, DACH and Nordics, together with the likes of Lupin, Berlin, Society of the Snow and All Quiet on the Western Entrance.
Marsh stated: “M-Okay’s in-depth expertise and information in tv manufacturing is second to none and he or she is an government who demonstrates robust strategic imaginative and prescient. All through her profession, M-Okay has garnered a stellar repute throughout the business and has established long-standing relationships with key expertise that may proceed to gas our formidable progress technique.”
Kennedy added: “The 14 manufacturing corporations within the Studiocanal TV Collection household are gifted storytellers, and consultants of their respective markets. I’m honored to hitch them and desirous to contribute to their evolution. In my earlier function, I witnessed how native tales can captivate audiences worldwide.”