The first fairy tale musical SimsalaGrimm, based on the Greenlight Media animated series, was a success among audiences and critics alike. The colorful mixture of a variety of Grimm fairy tales, coupled with a good dose of comedy and captivating music, will now continue in fall 2013. You will find additional information at www.cocomico.de. 11-9-2013 …
Lee Marshall in San Sebastian Screen Daily.com, 25 Sep 2007 Dir: Alastair Fothergill/Mark Linfield. UK/Germany 2007. 98 mins. Probably the most ambitious nature documentary ever produced, Earth is a feature-length condensation of the eleven-part BBC series Planet Earth, broadcast in the UK in 2006 and on Discovery Channel in the US in spring 2007. Better…
Japanese audiences flood in to see Deep Blue Deep Blue, the major documentary feature film from BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media, and distributed by Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, has broken the single theatre admission record in Japan. Since it opened on July 17, the feature film has overtaken the record made three months earlier by the…
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…
Another four new European films will be shown to select US buyers, festival scouts and important cinema programmers in European Film Promotion’s (EFP) third Industry Screenings in New York. The four titles chosen for the screenings from June 27-28 at the Tribeca Grand Hotel’s screening room are David Lammers’ Northern Light (Netherlands), Jan Verheyen’s Gilles…
Greenlight Media has successfully sold additional licenses to the hit documentary “Earth” to Scandinavia. The film company Shaw Rentners acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights for Denmark and Finland from the makers of Deep Blue and Earth for a total term of seven years.
The German channel ARD and the children’s channel KiKa started airing weekly episodes of the adventures of SimsalaGrimmfairy tale heroes Yoyo and Doc Croc (a production by Greenlight Media) on December 6, 2010.
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.
Ster Kinekor, the largest South African film distributor and movie theater operator, acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to the Greenlight Media/BBC Worldwide theatrical film production Earth for South Africa, Namibia and Zambia until 2016.
After first acquiring the rights to the earlier documentary hit Deep Blue, the successful Spanish film distributor and production company Wanda Division has now also acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to the sequel production Earth until the year 2020.
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
