Untold Studios has hired Adrianna Cohen as president of film and episodic, giving the visual-effects company a single leader for its global production business across five cities. Deadline reported the appointment on 3 August 2026.

Cohen will oversee strategy, operations and creative production for Untold's film and episodic VFX work — the digital effects that appear on screen in everything from superhero series to animated features — across the studio's network in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, London and Mumbai. CEO Darren O'Kelly described the hire as a major statement of ambition, according to Deadline.

Her CV spans both animation and consulting. Past employers include Blue Sky Studios, Fox Animation, Mikros Animation and McKinsey & Company. At Mikros Animation, she served as EVP, Global Head of Production, overseeing all feature and episodic work across the company's locations. VFX is the craft of creating imagery that does not exist on a physical set — explosions, alien worlds, de-aged faces — and it has become central to how big-budget television and film are made.

Untold Studios' recent and upcoming credits include The Boys, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Alien: Earth and Sonic the Hedgehog 4. Those titles span streaming episodic television and theatrical feature film releases, which is exactly the spread Cohen has been brought in to manage under one roof.

The hire is not an isolated move. Several weeks before Cohen's appointment, Untold brought on Sara Bennett as a VFX Supervisor. Bennett co-founded Milk, a VFX firm that was recently acquired. Together, the two hires point to a studio adding senior talent as it scales across continents.

What stands out is the scope. A VFX president running operations across five cities — three time zones and two hemispheres apart — reflects how visual-effects work has spread beyond its traditional hubs in London and Los Angeles. Toronto, Mumbai and other production centres now handle significant portions of the effects audiences see on screen, and studios are building leadership structures to match.

For viewers, the hire is unlikely to change what appears on screen tomorrow. Cohen's remit is about the business behind the pixels — which projects Untold takes on, how many people it can deploy, and how it competes for work against larger VFX houses. But the shows and films she helps deliver will reach audiences through the same streaming services and cinemas they already use.

Untold Studios has not disclosed financial terms of Cohen's appointment.