Earth in Israel
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.
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BBC’s ‘Deep Blue’ Rides Wave of Success
Deep Blue, the movie version of BBC natural history series The Blue Planet, has taken £14m in box office receipts since its release earlier this year, making it one of the corporation’s most successful ventures on the big screen. The 90-minute documentary feature has already proved a bigger moneyspinner than any BBC-backed film of recent…
Interview with Nikolaus Weil, co-producer of SimsalaGrimm, by the newspaper Stadtkurier
When old meets new Nikolaus Weil, managing director of Greenlight Media and co-producer of SimsalaGrimm, talks to the Stadtkurier. SK: What should the audience in Freiburg expect from SimsalaGrimm on April 21? Nikolaus Weil: Popular, tried and true Grimm’s fairy tales with a little twist. Fairy tales that introduce some new elements, but in the…
Additional rights to Earth licensed to Scandinavia
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.
Deep Blue
What “Microcosmos” did for creepy crawlies and “Winged Migration” did for our feathered friends, “Deep Blue” now does for ocean dwellers. An offshoot of David Attenborough’s much-admired BBC docu series “The Blue Planet,” this majestic film has all the hallmarks of Beeb quality workmanship – jaw-dropping, sumptuous visuals, a lush George Fenton score, state-of-the-art technology…
Gaumont acquires rights to Earth for France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
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 Wins the Earth
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…
Deep Blue Goes to Iceland
Iceland distributor Myndform Ehf acquired licenses from Greenlight Media for the distribution of Deep Blue through movie theaters, video and television over the next eight years. Originally a manufacturer of video copies, the company is now one of the three largest film distributors in Iceland, after Samfilm and Sena.
Greenlight Media: SimsalaGrimm licensed to Croatia
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.
Earth Goes to Hungary
The Hungarian film distributor Budapest Film acquired the movie theater, video and TV rights to the sequel production of Deep Blue, Earth. Greenlight Media and BBC Worldwide licensed the rights to Budapest Film for the next 10 years.
“Film making is our passion! That’s why we are excited that for almost two decades, our film and television productions have thrilled people of all ages all over the world.”
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
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