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.
(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…
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…
Greenlight Media has successfully sold additional licenses to the hit documentary “Earth” to Scandinavia. The film company Shaw Rentners acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights for Denmark and Finland from the makers of Deep Blue and Earth for a total term of seven years.
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…
Greenlight Media reported the sale of free TV and home video rights to SimsalaGrimm seasons I and II to the distributor Unison in Albania for a total term of two years.
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…
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…
Lee Marshall in San Sebastian Screen Daily.com, 25 Sep 2007 Dir: Alastair Fothergill/Mark Linfield. UK/Germany 2007. 98 mins. Probably the most ambitious nature documentary ever produced, Earth is a feature-length condensation of the eleven-part BBC series Planet Earth, broadcast in the UK in 2006 and on Discovery Channel in the US in spring 2007. Better…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
