Isabel Hund to Lead Legendary Leisure, Tobis Joint Enterprise

German producer Isabel Hund will function the CEO of the just lately shaped three way partnership between Legendary Leisure and Tobis.

Hund, who spent a lot of the final decade main German manufacturing and acquisition for Studiocanal GmbH, will lead the enterprise’s efforts to develop, produce and distribute premium German language collection content material.

At Studiocanal GmbH, Hund constructed and ran a neighborhood manufacturing workforce, making a slate of mainstream and arthouse hits. In her tenure there, she labored with the nation’s prime administrators, actors, and producers, creating titles incomes 10 Bavarian Movie Awards, in addition to two German Movie Awards from 21 nominations. She additionally produced two of essentially the most profitable titles within the household leisure house, “Heidi,” and “The Little Witch.” Previous to Studiocanal, Hund served as director of manufacturing for Columbia Footage Germany.

The Legendary-Tobis three way partnership will likely be based mostly at Tobis’ opened Munich places of work and can deal with high-end scripted collection and mini-series pushed by native tales and expertise. The corporate is ready to work with conventional German broadcasters and streaming platforms. Tobis will take the operational lead on the bottom whereas “Dune” agency Legendary will deal with distribution of all content material created by the three way partnership exterior of German-speaking Europe.

Hund mentioned: “High quality storytelling and creating significant content material is my ardour. I’m satisfied there may be at all times a marketplace for recent concepts, good tales and thrilling expertise and I can’t wait to start out on this new journey of constructing a house for expertise and the tales they wish to inform along with the good workforce of Legendary and Tobis.”

Legendary CEO Joshua Grode mentioned: “Isabel’s record of accomplishments speaks for itself, and there’s no another gifted or higher suited to develop this enterprise than her. Her experience within the German market and skill to constantly produce essential and industrial hits make her an ideal match, and we stay up for serving to her develop her portfolio of top-quality German content material.”

Tobis principals Timm Oberwelland and Theo Gringel added: “We’re very pleased to welcome Isabel as head of our rising tv enterprise. She brings together with her a variety of experiences, a wonderful community and popularity, in addition to a confirmed intuition for top of the range content material. Collectively we’re excited to launch German language high-end collection that may reach Germany and all over the world.”