Yellow Bird (company)
| Formerly | Yellow Bird (2003–2024) |
|---|---|
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Motion pictures Television |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Founder | Ole Søndberg Henning Mankell Lars Björkman |
| Headquarters | Stockholm, Sweden Los Angeles, United States |
Key people | Jakob Feeney (CEO) |
| Owner | Zodiak Media (2007–2016) Banijay Entertainment (2016–present) |
Number of employees | 20 |
| Parent | Jarowskij (2024–) |
| Website | yellowbird |
Jarowskij/Yellow Bird, formerly known as Yellow Bird is a Swedish film and television production company owned by Banijay Entertainment. 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.