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.
After first acquiring the rights to the earlier documentary hit Deep Blue, the successful Spanish film distributor and production company Wanda Division has now also acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to the sequel production Earth until the year 2020.
The French film group Gaumont acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to the joint Greenlight Media/BBC Worldwide theatrical film production Earth for France, including the French territories, as well as Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg for the next 25 years. The oldest film production company in the world still in operation today was founded in 1895 and…
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.
Lifetime nod bestowed at festival By Pamela Rolfe and Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — Richard Gere received the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday at the 55th San Sebastian International Film Festival and set off a frenzy in the streets as crowds chased his car. Earlier in the day, Gere…
At the International Film Festival in Berlin Greenlight Media managing directors Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten sold the film rights to Deep Blue to Cinema Jenin, managed by successful director Marcus Vetter, until year 2016. “Movies for peace” – this is the claim made by the initiative Cinema Jenin. With help from numerous public and private…
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.
The media company Source Investment BV will bring the box office hit Earth by BBC Worldwide/Greenlight Media to movie theaters in the Southeast Asian nations of Singapore and Brunei. The sales team of Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten licensed the movie theater, video and TV rights to the distributor until the year 2016.
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…
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
