The children’s channel KiKa and the channel ORF aired the popular children’s series SimsalaGrimm in the weeks before Christmas. The first episode, “The Brave Little Tailor,” aired on KiKa on November 18 at 7:25 p.m.
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…
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…
A surprisingly enjoyable ethno-romp, The Great Match is both a celebration of the global reach of football mania and a sly send-up of worthy anthropological epics like Himalaya. The three interleaved stories – about tribal soccer fans in remote parts of the globe who are desperate to see the 2002 World Cup final – will…
Five more docus to follow ‘Deep Blue’ Following their ground-breaking collaboration on the theatrical doc “Deep Blue,” BBC Worldwide and Germany’s Greenlight Media have struck a deal to co-produce another five natural-history films for the big screen. “Deep Blue” is a theatrical version of the blockbuster BBC undersea series “The Blue Planet.” It will premiere…
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…
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.
The French film group Gaumont acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to the joint Greenlight Media/BBC Worldwide theatrical film production Earth for France, including the French territories, as well as Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg for the next 25 years. The oldest film production company in the world still in operation today was founded in 1895 and…
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 Finnish production company Digital Cinema Matila Röhr Productions secured the television rights to Deep Blue for the region of Finland until 2019. In 2008 producers Marko Röhr and Ilkka Matila, in cooperation with Greenlight Media owners Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, brought a film about the well-known Finnish tale featuring a troll named Rölli…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
