UPDATED November 13, 2:59 p.m., with unique particulars: Netflix VP Movie Niija Kuykendall is the most recent government out on the streamer amid workers trimming heading into the vacations.
We hear that Kuykendall will depart after a transition interval by way of the tip of the yr. No subsequent vacation spot was disclosed.
Sources inform us the departure comes amidst the continued realignment of Netflix’s ‘pod’ system of government oversight since Dan Lin took over the streamer’s high movie put up from Scott Stuber earlier this yr — a system that has executives answerable for oversight of specific genres.
With Netflix for practically three years, Kuykendall has had oversight of faith-based, YA and vacation movies. Amidst her departure, YA will transfer over the comedies and rom-coms pod led by Jason Younger, who we’ve discovered completely has been promoted to VP Movie. In additional information, faith-based and vacation movies will transfer over to the drama/thrillers pod led by Kira Goldberg.
In an announcement shared with Deadline, Netflix VP Movie Doug Belgrad paid tribute to Kuykendall, saying, “Niija’s inventive relationships with established and upcoming filmmakers, like Tyler Perry, Denzel and Malcolm Washington, and David Yates, have had an ideal influence on our movie slate. I need to thank her for her many contributions, together with movies comparable to The Piano Lesson, The Deliverance, The Six Triple Eight, Ache Hustlers and Mea Culpa.”
Previous to her time at Netflix, Kuykendall labored for 13 and a half years as Government Vice President, Movie Manufacturing at Warner Bros Footage. Information of her impending exit follows just a few different one-off departures. Edith Mendoza Alva exited after a three-year stint as Director, Comedy, Authentic Collection, with the non-scripted division’s Damla Dogan and Todd Hurvitz additionally leaving. A spherical of layoffs within the firm’s publicity division additionally happened early final month.
Previous to his promotion, Younger labored for Netflix for 5 and a half years as Director of Authentic Movie. He got here to the function following two stints working at Twentieth Century Fox and two years in manufacturing at Zac Efron’s firm, Ninjas Runnin’ Wild.
