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,…
The Finnish production company Digital Cinema Matila Röhr Productions secured the television rights to Deep Blue for the region of Finland until 2019. In 2008 producers Marko Röhr and Ilkka Matila, in cooperation with Greenlight Media owners Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, brought a film about the well-known Finnish tale featuring a troll named Rölli…
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.
(Documentary — UK – Germany) Variety.com, by Jay Weissberg Not one frame of CGI is used in “Earth,” a landmark achievement utilizing the latest tech advances as it follows the cute and cuddly across multiple hemispheres and seasons. A ravishing distillation of the BBC/Discovery series “Planet Earth,” docu brings to the large screen memorable images…
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…
Berlin-based Greenlight Media licensed the rights to the BBC Worldwide/Greenlight Media documentary hit Earth to the film distributor and movie theater operator Lev Cinemas Ltd. in Tel Aviv, Israel, for the next 10 years.
The German media production company Greenlight Media licensed its successful series SimsalaGrimm to the Croatian video distributor Blitz Film & Video Distribution Ltd. The deal included the pay TV, free TV, home video, PPV, VOD and NVOD rights to SimsalaGrimm seasons I and II for a total term of 11 years in the territory of Croatia.
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…
“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…
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…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
