In the name of environmental science research the producers of Greenlight Media gave a free license for Deep Blue to the multimedia library Environment & Society. The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich is a joint initiative of Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Deutsches Museum, and is supported by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research….
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…
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…
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.
Representing a rare foray for the distrib into nonfiction films, Miramax has acquired North American rights to feature-length marine life documentary “Deep Blue,” produced by BBC Worldwide and Germany’s Greenlight Media. Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Andy Byatt and narrated by Michael Gambon, the doc explores life above, below and far beneath the ocean’s surface,…
The licensing business of Greenlight Media’s box office hit documentary Deep Blue, produced in 2004 in cooperation with BBC Worldwide, continues to be very successful. Only recently producers Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten signed an agreement with the Swedish entertainment company Suntower Communications, selling the video and TV rights to Deep Blue for the next five years.
Schlamberger-directed duo, ‘Vladimir’ toons upcoming Berlin-based Greenlight Media, producer with BBC Worldwide of theatrical documentary “Deep Blue,” is moving into production on two theatrical docs: the $6 million “Siberia: Discover the Unknown” and the $3 million “Between Heaven and Earth: The Alps.” It also is producing two animated features, both action-adventure pics mixing classical and…
Hollywood Reporter By Scott Roxborough SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — Saturday’s world premiere of natural-history documentary “Earth” was just the first salvo in a global marketing onslaught planned by co-producers BBC Films and Greenlight Media. Starting Monday, ahead of the film’s European theatrical rollout, BBC/Greenlight will launch a co-coordinated multiterritory online campaign based around its “Earth”-themed…
Following the global success of March Of The Penguins, animal films are the hot new genre. But is there a market for theatrical wildlife documentaries? Melanie Rodier reports. From meerkats to elephants, turtles to polar bears: in the post March Of The Penguins marketplace, a host of animal-based nature documentaries are trying to recreate the…
Greenlight Media sold the film, video and TV rights to the box office hit Earth to the South Korean film distributor Keowon Films for a total term of 10 years.
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
