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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.
Vendôme is best known for producing CODA which won three Oscars, including Best Picture. The company is currently in pre-production on Andrew Niccol’s Lords Of War starring Academy award-winner Nicolas Cage and Bill Skarsgård, the follow-up to cult classic, Lord Of War. The company also recently acquired the remake rights to produce a scripted adaption of human rights documentary A Fire Within. Vendôme and Pathé are working with Deaf West Theatre to develop the stage musical adaptation of CODA and recently announced Ibelin which will be directed by Morten Tyldum.
Founder Rousselet, producer of sci-fi movie Source Code, has made a string of successful French movies including CODA source material The Bélier Family, which made more than $55M in France.
Vendôme founder, chairman and CEO
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