The Hungarian film distributor Budapest Film acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to the sequel production of Deep Blue, Earth. Greenlight Media and BBC Worldwide licensed the rights to Budapest Film for the next 10 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…
Earth, the high-end BBC/Greenlight Media documentary feature, will get its German big -screen roll-out via RTL’s Universum Film, the company announced at the Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin. BBC Worldwide and Greenlight yesterday signed a major deal with Universum to distribute the feature-length movie in German-speaking territories, including Germany, Austria and Luxembourg. The US$15m 90-minute…
The managing directors of Greenlight Media, Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, reached a deal with ORF for the sale of the TV rights to seasons I and II of the animated series SimsalaGrimm for a term of four years.
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.
Patrick Stewart will narrate the English-language version of the upcoming feature documentary “Earth,” which is being co-produced by BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media. “Earth,” which is due for theatrical release this fall, tracks three animal families — polar bears, elephants and hump-backed whales — on epic journeys across the world’s most demanding and spectacular landscapes….
Books are proving to be fertile ground for producers looking for a bright idea that will capture the imagination of kids around the world In a market as crowded as the kids’ business is, there’s not much that can top the benefits of launching a property with built-in brand awareness. And much like toys and…
What “Microcosmos” did for creepy crawlies and “Winged Migration” did for our feathered friends, “Deep Blue” now does for ocean dwellers. An offshoot of David Attenborough’s much-admired BBC docu series “The Blue Planet,” this majestic film has all the hallmarks of Beeb quality workmanship – jaw-dropping, sumptuous visuals, a lush George Fenton score, state-of-the-art technology…
“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…
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…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
