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…
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…
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 sold the film, video and TV rights to the box office hit Earth to the South Korean film distributor Keowon Films for a total term of 10 years.
Forget Depp and Maguire. Step aside Knightley and Dunst. Here are the big beasts tipped to transfix film fans later this year. Earth, the cinematic spin-off of the award-winning BBC television series Planet Earth, stars three families of polar bears, elephants and whales. The 90-minute film shows the extraordinary bond between mothers and their newborn…
The film is based on a true story of a young teenage German Jew named Henry Weiss and his journey during the 20th century as the only survivor of his family during the holocaust. Pursuing his life journey he finds refuge in England, is initially arrested with all German aliens and then joins the British…
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.
The film company CMS Content Corporation acquired the film rights to Earth for Taiwan. Under the terms of the agreement the makers of the film, Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, licensed the movie theater, video and TV rights to the distributor for eight 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…
Greenlight Media sold the video rights to its box office hit Deep Blue to the largest South African film distributor and movie theater operator Ster Kinekor until the year 2017. Previously, the film giant had already acquired the rights to the sequel production Earth.
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
