Wendy Mitchell in Berlin Lionsgate has acquired the US, UK and Australian distribution rights for BBC Worldwide’s documentary feature Earth. The 90-minute documentary project, shot in 35mm and HD, has been in the works for five years and is due for an autumn 2007 release. The film looks at the influence of the sun on…
Berlin-based Greenlight Media licensed the rights to the BBC Worldwide/Greenlight Media documentary hit Earth to the film distributor and movie theater operator Lev Cinemas Ltd. in Tel Aviv, Israel, for the next 10 years.
A subsidiary of the entertainment group USEN Corporation Gaga Communications just became the official distributor of Earth in Japan. Under the agreement reached with Greenlight Media producers Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten the Japanese company acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights for Japan for the next 20 years.
Japanese audiences flood in to see Deep Blue Deep Blue, the major documentary feature film from BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media, and distributed by Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, has broken the single theatre admission record in Japan. Since it opened on July 17, the feature film has overtaken the record made three months earlier by the…
Avex Entertainment, Inc., a subsidiary of the Japanese entertainment group Avex Group Holding, purchased the video-on-demand rights to Greenlight Media’s bestseller Deep Blue. Within the group, Avex Entertainment Inc. is responsible for the production and planning of music and videos of artists. In addition, the company is responsible for the management of all artists. The…
Germany’s Greenlight Media, the producer with BBC Worldwide of event docu pics “Deep Blue” and “Planet Earth”, has taken its first step into feature film production, boarding Gerardo Olivares’ ethnic soccer comedy “The Great Match”. Pic is produced by José Maria Morales’ Wanda Films in Spain. Greenlight has taken a 20% equity stake in the…
During the Thessaloniki Film Festival, BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media have signed a deal with Balkan distributor Prooptiki for the $15m feature earth. The company, soon to be known as Audio Visual/Prooptiki, will distribute the 90-minute feature in Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro. The deal was brokered by Prooptiki’s Eugenia Mitropoulos, and Sophokles…
At the International Film Festival in Berlin Greenlight Media managing directors Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten sold the film rights to Deep Blue to Cinema Jenin, managed by successful director Marcus Vetter, until year 2016. “Movies for peace” – this is the claim made by the initiative Cinema Jenin. With help from numerous public and private…
(Documentary — UK – Germany) Variety.com, by Jay Weissberg Not one frame of CGI is used in “Earth,” a landmark achievement utilizing the latest tech advances as it follows the cute and cuddly across multiple hemispheres and seasons. A ravishing distillation of the BBC/Discovery series “Planet Earth,” docu brings to the large screen memorable images…
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…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
