The producers of the successful series SimsalaGrimm, Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, sold the home-video rights to SimsalaGrimm seasons I and II to the video distributor Video Art in Slovenia for eight years.
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…
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…
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…
The media company Source Investment BV will bring the box office hit Earth by BBC Worldwide/Greenlight Media to movie theaters in the Southeast Asian nations of Singapore and Brunei. The sales team of Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten licensed the movie theater, video and TV rights to the distributor until the year 2016.
The BBC has produced Blue Planet, the movie- renamed DEEP BLUE for the cinema audience. The BBC series The Blue Planet, the natural history programmes about life under the sea, has spawned DVDs, CDs and even a £15-a-head Prom concert in Hyde Park. Now David Attenborough’s award-winning investigation of the deep, first broadcast three years…
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.
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…
The Canadian media company Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to the BBC Worldwide/Greenlight Media theatrical film production Earth for the next 25 years for the regions of Great Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, as well as Australia and New Zealand.
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
