Private | |
Industry |
Film Television |
Founded | 2003 |
Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia Toronto, Ontario Los Angeles, California |
Subsidiaries |
Reunion Pictures Atomic Cartoons Thunderbird Releasing Sea to Sky Entertainment Great Pacific Media |
Website | http://www.thunderbird.tv/ |
Thunderbird Entertainment is a Canadian expanded multiplatform media production, distribution and rights management company based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, with offices in Toronto and Los Angeles. Thunderbird has a catalogue of more than 400 hours of Canadian and US television content, including series such as the CBC comedy Kim's Convenience, Some Assembly Required, Zigby, Zixx, Mr. Young, Endgame, Da Vinci's Inquest, and Intelligence. Thunderbird is now in production on Somewhere Between, a 10-episode thriller-drama series, which will air on ABC in the summer of 2017, starring Paula Patton, Devon Sawa, and JR Bourne.
Together with Thunderbird Releasing, Thunderbird has acquired the rights to films such as High-Rise, Disorder, and The Second Mother.
It was announced that Lionsgate Founder and Thunderbird Director Frank Giustra will act as executive producer alongside Thunderbird CEO Tim Gamble for the Blade Runner Sequel, which is set to be released on October 6, 2017. The TV series Guilt also received a series order from Freeform, the show is produced by Sea to Sky Entertainment - a joint venture between Lionsgate and Thunderbird Entertainment, and had its series premiere on June 13, 2016. On February 10, 2016, it was announced that Thunderbird would be co-producing Netflix Original series Beat Bugs, a series that features music from The Beatles, covered by artists such as Eddie Vedder, Sia and P!nk. The series animation will be done by Atomic Cartoons, and will begin streaming in the summer of 2016.
Thunderbird's programming airs on major networks around the globe. It was recently announced that Thunderbird is teaming up with David Salzman to develop a premium television series based on the New York Times best-selling Decker-Lazarus mystery novels authored by internationally renowned Faye Kellerman. The preliminary development will focus on The Ritual Bath, the inaugural book in the series and the first novel optioned by Thunderbird.