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…
According to TV Scope of AGF/GfK Television Research, season II of the successful animated series SimsalaGrimm, a Greenlight Media production, achieved a total market share of 29% among the target group of 3- to 13-year-olds when the series was aired on the children’s channel KiKa in December 2010. Source: AGF/GfK Television Research, TV Scope
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…
Following the global success of March Of The Penguins, animal films are the hot new genre. But is there a market for theatrical wildlife documentaries? Melanie Rodier reports. From meerkats to elephants, turtles to polar bears: in the post March Of The Penguins marketplace, a host of animal-based nature documentaries are trying to recreate the…
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.
Using the most advanced technology and methods in film making, EARTH takes the audience on a tour around the planet we live on, but know so little about. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, the documentary takes us on a global journey into the lives and plight of three separate animals on different sides of the Earth….
Elfie Jäger reports on Greenlight Media, the unconventional German producer behind feature doc Deep Blue and upcoming epic natural history film Earth, both backed by the BBC. According to Sophokles Tasioulis (left), executive VP and board member of Berlin-based prodco Greenlight Media, the company’s secret lies in combining the talents of an eclectic mix of…
The Canadian media company Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to the BBC Worldwide/Greenlight Media theatrical film production Earth for the next 25 years for the regions of Great Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, as well as Australia and New Zealand.
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.
Germany’s Greenlight Media, the producer with BBC Worldwide of event docu pics “Deep Blue” and “Planet Earth”, has taken its first step into feature film production, boarding Gerardo Olivares’ ethnic soccer comedy “The Great Match”. Pic is produced by José Maria Morales’ Wanda Films in Spain. Greenlight has taken a 20% equity stake in the…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
