Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, formerly Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, acquired the rights to Earth for the next 15 years. Starting in 2009 the entertainment giant will bring the hit documentary of BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media to movie theaters in the United States and Canada under the label “Disney Nature.” In addition, the group acquired the…
The children’s channel KiKa and the channel ORF aired the popular children’s series SimsalaGrimm in the weeks before Christmas. The first episode, “The Brave Little Tailor,” aired on KiKa on November 18 at 7:25 p.m.
A subsidiary of the entertainment group USEN Corporation Gaga Communications just became the official distributor of Earth in Japan. Under the agreement reached with Greenlight Media producers Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten the Japanese company acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights for Japan for the next 20 years.
On October 11, 2012 the hit fairy tale series SimsalaGrimm by Greenlight Media was performed on stage as a musical for the first time. To celebrate the 225th birth day of fairy tale collector Wilhelm Grimm, Musicalgruppe Cocomico, in close cooperation with Sony Music (EUROPA), took the audience on a colorful excursion through many different Grimm fairy tales. For 10…
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…
Greenlight Media executives Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten reached an agreement with Frenetic Films licensing to the Swiss film distributor the movie theater, video and TV rights to Earth for the next seven years for the German-speaking and French-speaking parts of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Frenetic Films is one of the leading independent film distributors in Switzerland, and in the past…
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…
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…
BERLIN — Lionsgate has acquired U.S., U.K. and Australian distribution rights to ambitious documentary feature “Earth” from BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media, the companies said Monday. Five years in the making, “Earth” takes audiences on a journey around the planet, using the sun as a guide to follow the migratory journeys of an elephant, a…
Another four new European films will be shown to select US buyers, festival scouts and important cinema programmers in European Film Promotion’s (EFP) third Industry Screenings in New York. The four titles chosen for the screenings from June 27-28 at the Tribeca Grand Hotel’s screening room are David Lammers’ Northern Light (Netherlands), Jan Verheyen’s Gilles…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
