{"id":210607,"date":"2025-06-22T15:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/210607\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:02:20","slug":"film4-boss-ollie-madden-joining-netflix-as-director-of-u-k-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/210607\/","title":{"rendered":"Film4 Boss Ollie Madden Joining Netflix as Director of U.K. Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a shock move for the U.K. industry, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a> has poached <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2000281\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ollie Madden<\/a>, director of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0167631\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Film4<\/a> and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0706824\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Channel 4<\/a> drama, to become its new director of U.K. Film.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm16109701\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madden<\/a>, who oversaw a slate at Film4 that included Oscar-winning features such as \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14230458\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poor Things<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7160372\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Zone of Interest<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5083738\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Favourite<\/a>,\u201d will be joining content team overseen by <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1416362\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anne Mensah<\/a> in Netflix\u2019s London office. He will both lead the streamer\u2019s U.K. film slate and act as the primary U.K. contact for films on <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1469853\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Lin<\/a>\u2019s slate where the IP, talent and production are based in the U.K., with the exception of family features for North America, such as the <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9077514\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Narnia<\/a> and Dahl franchises. He will also develop a select portfolio of filmmaker-led series.<\/p>\n<p>Madden is set to leave Film4 and start his new position in October.<\/p>\n<p>A long-term Film4 exec having joined the production arm of U.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a shock move for the U.K. industry, Netflix has poached Ollie Madden, director of Film4 and Channel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3976],"tags":[331,332,441,11548,13,683,14,15,1802,67338,935,42085,12,2708,684,3992,3993,3994,3995,3996,3997],"class_list":{"0":"post-210607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vereinigtes-koenigreich","8":"tag-aktuelle-nachrichten","9":"tag-aktuelle-news","10":"tag-fernsehen","11":"tag-filme","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-hollywood","14":"tag-nachrichten","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-prominente","17":"tag-regisseure","18":"tag-schauspieler","19":"tag-schauspielerinnen","20":"tag-schlagzeilen","21":"tag-stars","22":"tag-tv","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland","26":"tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich","27":"tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich-grossbritannien-und-nordirland","28":"tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich-von-grossbritannien-und-nordirland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@de\/114727625987059052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}