Companies

Yellow Bird

Sweden

Key Titles

Thin Ice
Wallander
Occupied
Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy

Yellow Bird established itself in the Swedish, as well as the international markets in 2003, when it released a series of television films based on Swedish author, Henning Mankell’s, renowned fictional detective, Kurt Wallander. The success of the Wallander franchise was quickly followed by Stieg Larsson’s worldwide phenomenon, The Millennium Trilogy, Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters, Liza Marklund’s Annika Bengtzon series, the British version of Wallander with Kenneth Branagh, and more recently, Norwegian TV-series, Occupied, based on an original idea by Jo Nesbø.

As part of Banijay Group, Yellow Bird’s specific mission is to produce high-quality drama for the Scandinavian and International markets, with a Nordic anchoring. In keeping with this, Yellow Bird currently boasts an impressive development slate with various TV-series and feature films in collaboration with high-profile talent, authors and scriptwriters.

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