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.
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…
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…
The spectacular, feature length documentary, Deep Blue, produced by BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media, achieved massive audiences in Germany during its opening weekend (30th Jan) The screen average for the movie (based on the number of prints in the market and box office sales) beat the Hollywood hits Lost In Translation, Open Range, Finding Nemo,…
“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…
UK singer Lisa Stansfield and actor Mackenzie Crook will lend their voices to Quest For A Heart, a $7.7m (Euros 6m) fully-animated feature shortly to wrap a five-year production schedule for Finland’s MRP Matila Rohr Productions. Stansfield will also perform the theme song. “It will be the jewel of the crown,” said Finnish producer Marko…
Iceland distributor Myndform Ehf acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to Earth from Greenlight Media for the next nine years. Originally known as a manufacturer of video copies, the company is now one of the three largest film distributors in Iceland, after Samfilm and Sena.
Iceland distributor Myndform Ehf acquired licenses from Greenlight Media for the distribution of Deep Blue through movie theaters, video and television over the next eight years. Originally a manufacturer of video copies, the company is now one of the three largest film distributors in Iceland, after Samfilm and Sena.
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 German media production company Greenlight Media licensed its successful series SimsalaGrimm to the Croatian video distributor Blitz Film & Video Distribution Ltd. The deal included the pay TV, free TV, home video, PPV, VOD and NVOD rights to SimsalaGrimm seasons I and II for a total term of 11 years in the territory of Croatia.
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
