Greenlight Media, under the management of Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, sold the sound recording rights to the hit children’s series SimsalaGrimm to Sony BMG Music Entertainment in December 2012.
Using the most advanced technology and methods in film making, EARTH takes the audience on a tour around the planet we live on, but know so little about. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, the documentary takes us on a global journey into the lives and plight of three separate animals on different sides of the Earth….
A polar bear, an elephant and a whale are the BBC’s contenders for the next Oscars. The astonishing wildlife footage that entranced viewers in the groundbreaking BBC television series Planet Earth is to be turned into a film that could spearhead Britain’s Oscar challenge in 2008. Speaking after an appearance at The Times Cheltenham Literature…
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.
“Eastern Promises” and Michael Radford’s “Flawless,” will bookend the 55th annual San Sebastian International Film Festival, festival organizers announced Tuesday. Cronenberg’s “Promises,” his follow-up to “A History of Violence,” will open the festival’s main competition. Set in London’s organized crime world, “Promises’ ” tale of a Mafioso and an innocent but determined woman stars Viggo…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
