Kathryn Thal has been appointed Vendôme Pictures’ senior vice president of development and production.
Thal, who will be based in Los Angeles, will further expand the Paris-based company’s connection with the U.S. market. In this new role, Thal will oversee all English-language movies and television shows from development to production and delivery. She will, effective immediately, report to company founder, chairman and CEO Philippe Rousselet and co-ceo Fabrice Gianfermi.
Thal previously served as Black Bear’s vice president and previously worked for Anonymous Content. She spent her tenure there building out and servicing international co-ventures while sourcing project-related opportunities. She started her career at ICM Partners before moving to HBO, Netflix and eventually Hunting Lane as manager of development.
Vendôme is best known for producing “Coda.” That Sundance sensation won three Oscars for distributor Apple TV+ at the 2022 Academy Awards, including Best Picture (the first such honor for...
Thal, who will be based in Los Angeles, will further expand the Paris-based company’s connection with the U.S. market. In this new role, Thal will oversee all English-language movies and television shows from development to production and delivery. She will, effective immediately, report to company founder, chairman and CEO Philippe Rousselet and co-ceo Fabrice Gianfermi.
Thal previously served as Black Bear’s vice president and previously worked for Anonymous Content. She spent her tenure there building out and servicing international co-ventures while sourcing project-related opportunities. She started her career at ICM Partners before moving to HBO, Netflix and eventually Hunting Lane as manager of development.
Vendôme is best known for producing “Coda.” That Sundance sensation won three Oscars for distributor Apple TV+ at the 2022 Academy Awards, including Best Picture (the first such honor for...
- 11/14/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Coda and Source Code producer Vendôme Pictures has appointed Kathryn Thal as Senior Vice President of Development and Production.
Thal will be based in LA with a remit to expand the Paris-based company’s connection to the U.S. market. In the new role, Thal will oversee all English-language film and TV projects from the development stage to production and delivery.
She will report to Vendôme founder, chairman and CEO Philippe Rousselet and co-ceo Fabrice Gianfermi, effective immediately.
Thal joins from Black Bear, where she was a Vice President and worked closely with the production and management teams. She was part of the producing team for Scott Frank’s Monsieur Spade starring Clive Owen and also worked closely on developing projects with Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game), Johan Renck (Chernobyl) and Kyle Killen (Halo).
Prior to Black Bear, Thal worked at Anonymous Content, Hunting Lane, ICM Partners, HBO and Netflix.
Thal will be based in LA with a remit to expand the Paris-based company’s connection to the U.S. market. In the new role, Thal will oversee all English-language film and TV projects from the development stage to production and delivery.
She will report to Vendôme founder, chairman and CEO Philippe Rousselet and co-ceo Fabrice Gianfermi, effective immediately.
Thal joins from Black Bear, where she was a Vice President and worked closely with the production and management teams. She was part of the producing team for Scott Frank’s Monsieur Spade starring Clive Owen and also worked closely on developing projects with Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game), Johan Renck (Chernobyl) and Kyle Killen (Halo).
Prior to Black Bear, Thal worked at Anonymous Content, Hunting Lane, ICM Partners, HBO and Netflix.
- 11/14/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Keith Redmon has joined Teddy Schwarzman’s Black Bear Pictures as a partner. He’s being tasked with heading up Black Bear Global, a newly created division which will focus on building strategic alliances and co-productions between the company and talent, production companies and partners overseas.
Redmon, who was at Anonymous Content for two decades, will also help build Black Bear’s management portfolio. He will continue to represent motion picture and television literary clients including: Daniel Barber (“Harry Brown”), Stephen Berra (“The Good Life”), Hagen Bogdanski (“Berlin Station”), Giuseppe Capotondi (“The Burnt Orange Heresy”), John Hillcoat (“The Proposition”), Kyle Killen (“Halo”), Raine Allen Miller, Schiaffino Musarra, Michael Punke (“The Revenant”), Johan Renck (“Chernobyl”), Michaël Roskam (“The Drop), Isaiah Seret, David Slade (“Black Mirror: Bandersnatch”), Mark L. Smith (“The Midnight Sky”) and Morten Tyldum (“The Imitation Game”). Redmon was ousted from Anonymous in June. At the time, the company offered...
Redmon, who was at Anonymous Content for two decades, will also help build Black Bear’s management portfolio. He will continue to represent motion picture and television literary clients including: Daniel Barber (“Harry Brown”), Stephen Berra (“The Good Life”), Hagen Bogdanski (“Berlin Station”), Giuseppe Capotondi (“The Burnt Orange Heresy”), John Hillcoat (“The Proposition”), Kyle Killen (“Halo”), Raine Allen Miller, Schiaffino Musarra, Michael Punke (“The Revenant”), Johan Renck (“Chernobyl”), Michaël Roskam (“The Drop), Isaiah Seret, David Slade (“Black Mirror: Bandersnatch”), Mark L. Smith (“The Midnight Sky”) and Morten Tyldum (“The Imitation Game”). Redmon was ousted from Anonymous in June. At the time, the company offered...
- 10/18/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Elizabeth Debicki, the rising Australian actor who headlines “Tenet,” is set to star in and executive produce “Code Name Hélène,” an international limited series from France’s Vendôme Group and Anonymous Content, based on New York Times bestselling author Ariel Lawhon’s World War II spy thriller.
Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme Group and Anonymous Content, the company behind “True Detective” and “The Revenant,” have acquired TV rights to the novel, which was published in March 2020 by Doubleday Books.
“Code Name Hélène” will tell the epic real-life story of Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, a New Zealand-born journalist who became a ferociously brave spy and one of the most powerful leaders of the French Resistance. The series will be told in interweaving timelines following each of the four code names used by Nancy during World War II.
“Nancy Wake was an astonishing New Zealand-born, Australian-bred woman of incredible courage, ingenuity and wit.
Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme Group and Anonymous Content, the company behind “True Detective” and “The Revenant,” have acquired TV rights to the novel, which was published in March 2020 by Doubleday Books.
“Code Name Hélène” will tell the epic real-life story of Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, a New Zealand-born journalist who became a ferociously brave spy and one of the most powerful leaders of the French Resistance. The series will be told in interweaving timelines following each of the four code names used by Nancy during World War II.
“Nancy Wake was an astonishing New Zealand-born, Australian-bred woman of incredible courage, ingenuity and wit.
- 8/27/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Jamie Patricof’s Hunting Lane has signed a first-look deal with Universal Cable Productions. Under the pact, Hunting Lane will develop scripted programming with Ucp for the the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment portfolio, as well as for external networks and streaming services, beginning with White Tears, a limited drama series based on Hari Kunzru’s critically praised novel, with Steven Caple Jr. (Creed 2) attached to direct.
White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues. When Brooklyn hipsters, Seth and Carter discover a rare blues recording, they naively tumble into a thrilling investigation of race and cultural appropriation in society today. The book was published by Penguin Random House in March 2017.
Jamie Patricof, Katie McNeill, and Kathryn Thal of Hunting Lane will produce.
White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues. When Brooklyn hipsters, Seth and Carter discover a rare blues recording, they naively tumble into a thrilling investigation of race and cultural appropriation in society today. The book was published by Penguin Random House in March 2017.
Jamie Patricof, Katie McNeill, and Kathryn Thal of Hunting Lane will produce.
- 7/25/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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