Studiocanal has signed the individual liable for organising Netflix manufacturing hubs round Europe as its new TV boss.
M-Ok 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 based mostly in London. She succeeds Françoise Guyonnet, who has develop into EVP of Youngsters Manufacturers on the Paddington outfit because it pushes additional into the area.
She is going to oversee a staff that at present has collection 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, based mostly in Amsterdam. There, she constructed the manufacturing groups liable for Netflix’ local-language collection 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 mentioned: “M-Ok’s in-depth expertise and data in tv manufacturing is second to none and she or he is an government who demonstrates robust strategic imaginative and prescient. All through her profession, M-Ok has garnered a stellar popularity throughout the business and has established long-standing relationships with key expertise that can proceed to gasoline our bold development technique.”
Kennedy added: “The 14 manufacturing firms 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 position, I witnessed how native tales can captivate audiences worldwide.”
