Earth, the high-end BBC/Greenlight Media documentary feature, will get its German big -screen roll-out via RTL’s Universum Film, the company announced at the Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin. BBC Worldwide and Greenlight yesterday signed a major deal with Universum to distribute the feature-length movie in German-speaking territories, including Germany, Austria and Luxembourg. The US$15m 90-minute…
On October 11, 2012 the hit fairy tale series SimsalaGrimm by Greenlight Media was performed on stage as a musical for the first time. To celebrate the 225th birth day of fairy tale collector Wilhelm Grimm, Musicalgruppe Cocomico, in close cooperation with Sony Music (EUROPA), took the audience on a colorful excursion through many different Grimm fairy tales. For 10…
The hosts of this year’s Cannes film festival appear to be faced with a major dilemma. Should they turn the red carpet over to the likes of George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon? Or should they offer centre-stage to a polar bear, a humpback whale, and an elephant? The Hollywood Reporter suggests that Cannes…
Greenlight Media executives Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten reached an agreement with Frenetic Films licensing to the Swiss film distributor the movie theater, video and TV rights to Earth for the next seven years for the German-speaking and French-speaking parts of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Frenetic Films is one of the leading independent film distributors in Switzerland, and in the past…
BERLIN — Lionsgate has acquired U.S., U.K. and Australian distribution rights to ambitious documentary feature “Earth” from BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media, the companies said Monday. Five years in the making, “Earth” takes audiences on a journey around the planet, using the sun as a guide to follow the migratory journeys of an elephant, a…
Deep Blue, the movie version of BBC natural history series The Blue Planet, has taken £14m in box office receipts since its release earlier this year, making it one of the corporation’s most successful ventures on the big screen. The 90-minute documentary feature has already proved a bigger moneyspinner than any BBC-backed film of recent…
The German media production company Greenlight Media licensed its successful series SimsalaGrimm to the Croatian video distributor Blitz Film & Video Distribution Ltd. The deal included the pay TV, free TV, home video, PPV, VOD and NVOD rights to SimsalaGrimm seasons I and II for a total term of 11 years in the territory of Croatia.
Spanish-German co-production “The Great Match” has sold to five territories since last month’s premiere in the Berlin Film Festival’s Berlinale Special section. Helmer Gerardo Olivares’ feature debut, a multi-ethnic comedy about the attempts of tribal groups around the world to watch a soccer match, has sold to French distrib Ocean Film, Greece’s Rosebud Film, Xenix…
Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, formerly Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, released the box office hit Earth by BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media in movie theaters in Italy. The deal between the media group and the producers of the nature documentary, Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, included the sale of the movie theater, video and TV rights for…
Interview with Greenlight Media managing directors Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten Greenlight Media turned 20 years old this year. How would you describe, in one word, how you feel about this event? Nikolaus Weil: Most of all gratitude! I am grateful that I had a chance to experience so much excitement and diversity. I am…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
