Based on a true story, “The Internee” follows the life of a young Jewish man who has to flee from Nazi-Germany as a teenager. The uncertain journey first leads him via Amsterdam to England, where the young protagonist arrives at the Hutchinson Internment Camp on the Isle of Man. On his journey, he makes various…
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 producers of the successful series SimsalaGrimm, Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, sold the home-video rights to SimsalaGrimm seasons I and II to the video distributor Video Art in Slovenia for eight 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…
Wendy Mitchell in Berlin Lionsgate has acquired the US, UK and Australian distribution rights for BBC Worldwide’s documentary feature Earth. The 90-minute documentary project, shot in 35mm and HD, has been in the works for five years and is due for an autumn 2007 release. The film looks at the influence of the sun on…
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….
Ster Kinekor, the largest South African film distributor and movie theater operator, acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to the Greenlight Media/BBC Worldwide theatrical film production Earth for South Africa, Namibia and Zambia until 2016.
Greenlight Media has successfully sold additional licenses to the hit documentary “Earth” to Scandinavia. The film company Shaw Rentners acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights for Denmark and Finland from the makers of Deep Blue and Earth for a total term of seven years.
A surprisingly enjoyable ethno-romp, The Great Match is both a celebration of the global reach of football mania and a sly send-up of worthy anthropological epics like Himalaya. The three interleaved stories – about tribal soccer fans in remote parts of the globe who are desperate to see the 2002 World Cup final – will…
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…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
