Universum Film has picked up German rights to the BBC’s $15 million natural history feature “Earth.” The sale was struck by the BBC’s production and distribution partner Greenlight Media. Pic has already been pre-sold to Gaga in Japan, Gaumont in France, Wanda in Spain and Frenetic in Switzerland. Universum, part of the RTL Group, will…
The Colombian film distributor Primetime Media acquired the free TV rights to the hit series SimsalaGrimm (seasons I and 2) by Greenlight Media for a term of three years.
Greenlight Media’s documentary “Giorgio Armani – A man for all seasons” receives a remake. Just in time for the 20th anniversary of the unusual portrait about the internationally-known Italian fashion designer, the film project will be revised and published as part of a marketing campaign for the label in 2020. The aim is to bring…
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…
The hosts of this year’s Cannes film festival appear to be faced with a major dilemma. Should they turn the red carpet over to the likes of George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon? Or should they offer centre-stage to a polar bear, a humpback whale, and an elephant? The Hollywood Reporter suggests that Cannes…
The Greenlight Media animated series achieved a total market share of almost 40% for the target group of 3- to 13-year-olds when it aired in September and October 2011. According to AGF/GfK Television Research the 26 episodes of the first season were watched by 530,000 viewers, representing a 39.6% market share; the second season did even better,…
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.
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…
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.
Deep Blue, the movie version of BBC natural history series The Blue Planet, has taken £14m in box office receipts since its release earlier this year, making it one of the corporation’s most successful ventures on the big screen. The 90-minute documentary feature has already proved a bigger moneyspinner than any BBC-backed film of recent…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
