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…
Deep Blue makes splash with Japanese royal family Deep Blue, the major documentary feature film from BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media, was given the royal treatment with a special World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) screening in Tokyo on 25th June 2004, in the presence of members of the Japanese royal family. His Imperial Highness…
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 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…
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…
Hollywood Reporter By Scott Roxborough SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — Saturday’s world premiere of natural-history documentary “Earth” was just the first salvo in a global marketing onslaught planned by co-producers BBC Films and Greenlight Media. Starting Monday, ahead of the film’s European theatrical rollout, BBC/Greenlight will launch a co-coordinated multiterritory online campaign based around its “Earth”-themed…
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.
Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, formerly Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, acquired the rights to Earth for the next 15 years. Starting in 2009 the entertainment giant will bring the hit documentary of BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media to movie theaters in the United States and Canada under the label “Disney Nature.” In addition, the group acquired the…
According to TV Scope of AGF/GfK Television Research, season II of the successful animated series SimsalaGrimm, a Greenlight Media production, achieved a total market share of 29% among the target group of 3- to 13-year-olds when the series was aired on the children’s channel KiKa in December 2010. Source: AGF/GfK Television Research, TV Scope
The producers of the successful series SimsalaGrimm, Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, sold the home-video rights to SimsalaGrimm seasons I and II to the video distributor Video Art in Slovenia for eight years.
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
