Hit-series SimsalaGrimm has twice the reason to celebrates in 2019: not only that it is the 20-year anniversary since the show’s first broadcast on German television, but the series has also found a new home with the Fabula Media Group. Based on the famous fairy tales and characters of the Brothers Grimm and other classics,…
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…
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…
Universum Film in Munich, a German subsidiary of RTL/Bertelsmann, will bring the hit documentary Earth by BBC Wordwide/Greenlight Media to movie theaters in Germany, Austria, Southern Tyrolia, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. The makers of Earth and Deep Blue, Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, agreed to a license term of 10 years.
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…
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…
In the name of environmental science research the producers of Greenlight Media gave a free license for Deep Blue to the multimedia library Environment & Society. The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich is a joint initiative of Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Deutsches Museum, and is supported by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research….
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…
Representing a rare foray for the distrib into nonfiction films, Miramax has acquired North American rights to feature-length marine life documentary “Deep Blue,” produced by BBC Worldwide and Germany’s Greenlight Media. Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Andy Byatt and narrated by Michael Gambon, the doc explores life above, below and far beneath the ocean’s surface,…
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…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
