Patrick Stewart will narrate the English-language version of the upcoming feature documentary “Earth,” which is being co-produced by BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media. “Earth,” which is due for theatrical release this fall, tracks three animal families — polar bears, elephants and hump-backed whales — on epic journeys across the world’s most demanding and spectacular landscapes….
Israeli distributor Hop! Channel renewed the home video rights to Greenlight Media’s hit series SimsalaGrimm (this I and 2) for an additional two years.
Ster Kinekor, the largest South African film distributor and movie theater operator, acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to the Greenlight Media/BBC Worldwide theatrical film production Earth for South Africa, Namibia and Zambia until 2016.
Elfie Jäger reports on Greenlight Media, the unconventional German producer behind feature doc Deep Blue and upcoming epic natural history film Earth, both backed by the BBC. According to Sophokles Tasioulis (left), executive VP and board member of Berlin-based prodco Greenlight Media, the company’s secret lies in combining the talents of an eclectic mix of…
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…
Lifetime nod bestowed at festival By Pamela Rolfe and Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — Richard Gere received the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday at the 55th San Sebastian International Film Festival and set off a frenzy in the streets as crowds chased his car. Earlier in the day, Gere…
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.
Hit-series SimsalaGrimm has twice the reason to celebrates in 2019: not only that it is the 20-year anniversary since the show’s first broadcast on German television, but the series has also found a new home with the Fabula Media Group. Based on the famous fairy tales and characters of the Brothers Grimm and other classics,…
The Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin’s tony Dahlem district was the venue for Sunday’s recording session by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for the BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media feature-length natural history documentary, “Earth.” Helmed by Alastair Fothergill, “Earth” follows polar bears, elephants and humpback whales as they face a migratory existence in a world that is fast-changing….
Books are proving to be fertile ground for producers looking for a bright idea that will capture the imagination of kids around the world In a market as crowded as the kids’ business is, there’s not much that can top the benefits of launching a property with built-in brand awareness. And much like toys and…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
