Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yellow Bird is a Swedish film and television production company founded by best-selling novelist Henning Mankell and film-producers Ole Søndberg and Lars Björkman. The company was founded to produce films based on Mankell''s Kurt Wallander novels. Yellow Bird was sold to Danish media house Zodiak Entertainment in 2007. Today they specializes in adopting Scandinavian crime literature for cinemas and television. Yellow Bird recently produced a 2x90 German TV series based on the Henning Mankell novel Kennedy''s Brain. The series is made for broadcaster ARD.The leading role is played by the well known German actress Iris Berben. The series also stars the famous Swedish actors Michael Nyqvist and Rolf Lassgård. In October 2008, Yellow Bird launched its new subsidiary Yellow Bird Pictures , based in Munich, Germany. The start up is a joint venture between Yellow Bird and producer Oliver Schündler. Yellow Bird Pictures will focus on cinema feature films and TV fiction for the German speaking market. Initial productions will be based on rights that Yellow Bird already controls, which will shorten the time to market for the company.