Yellow Bird (company)

Yellow Bird (company)

Yellow Bird is a Swedish film and television production company founded by best selling novelist Henning Mankell and film-producers Ole Søndberg and Lars Björkman. The company was founded to produce films based on Mankells Kurt Wallander novels. The company was sold to Danish media house Zodiac in 2007. [ [http://sydsvenskan.se/nojen/article220757.ece Filmbolaget Yellow bird i Ystads säljs - Nöjen - Sydsvenskan - Nyheter dygnet runt ] ] Yellowbird is currently co-producing an English language version of the Wallander series with BBC starring Kenneth Branagh. [ [http://www.thelocal.se/9620/20080110/ The Local - Kenneth Branagh to star in BBC 'Wallander' series ] ]

Yellow Bird has recently started producing films based on Swedish crime fiction from other writers. They recently acquired the rights to the works by Stieg Larsson. [ [http://www.nordiskfilmogtvfond.com/news_story.php?cid=458&sid=10&ptid=4 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Yellow Bird Puts SEK 106m Millennium Project In Production ] ] [ [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117974732.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 Yellow Bird plans Larsson franchise - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety ] ]

Yellow Bird is also planning for international offices with Germany as a high priority. [ [http://www.resume.se/nyheter/2008/04/08/zodiak-exporterar-yellow-b/ Resumé: Zodiak exporterar Yellow Bird ] ]

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