Veteran Producers Hannah Minghella and Sharon Taylor Join Netflix –

This Tuesday, Deadline reported that Hannah Minghella had been hired as Head of Feature Animation and Live-Action Family Film at Netflix. Sharon Taylor has also been tapped to join Minghella as Feature Animation’s head of production.

This means that Karen Toliver and Traci Balthazor, the former heads of animation, have left the streaming giant. Both people played key roles in building a better catalog for Netflix. Some of their most notable ventures included Academy Award-winning and nominated films such as Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro, NimonaAnd The sea beast. With that fantastic lineup, it’s a challenge to find excellent replacements to fill their shoes. Luckily, we think Netflix has found the perfect pair for the job.

Minghella spent nearly 15 years at Sony Pictures and Columbia as President of Production, where she oversaw many iconic features, such as Cloudy with a chance of meatballs And The great Spider Man. Soon after, she became President of Film for JJ Abram’s production company, Bad Robot, where she oversaw all their productions, including the Oscar-winning The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse. In the aforementioned Deadline article, they confirmed that Minghella’s departure from Bad Robot was “amicable.”

Taylor was CEO of Animal Logic Studios, which she worked on Happy feetthe two Peter Rabbit films, Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge And The Great Gatsbythe four Lego moviesand several MCU movies. The studio’s two most recent films, Lion And The magician’s elephant premiered on Netflix to generally positive reviews. Additionally, Animal Logic just merged with Netflix Animation earlier this year.

In the rest of the article, Minghella and Taylor expressed their gratitude for their new job and all their colleagues, past and present. With these new additions, fans are certainly in good hands for Netflix’s upcoming animated films.