Greenlight Media’s documentary “Giorgio Armani – A man for all seasons” receives a remake. Just in time for the 20th anniversary of the unusual portrait about the internationally-known Italian fashion designer, the film project will be revised and published as part of a marketing campaign for the label in 2020. The aim is to bring…
The BBC has produced Blue Planet, the movie- renamed DEEP BLUE for the cinema audience. The BBC series The Blue Planet, the natural history programmes about life under the sea, has spawned DVDs, CDs and even a £15-a-head Prom concert in Hyde Park. Now David Attenborough’s award-winning investigation of the deep, first broadcast three years…
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…
Hollywood Reporter By Scott Roxborough SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — Saturday’s world premiere of natural-history documentary “Earth” was just the first salvo in a global marketing onslaught planned by co-producers BBC Films and Greenlight Media. Starting Monday, ahead of the film’s European theatrical rollout, BBC/Greenlight will launch a co-coordinated multiterritory online campaign based around its “Earth”-themed…
Japanese audiences flood in to see Deep Blue Deep Blue, the major documentary feature film from BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media, and distributed by Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, has broken the single theatre admission record in Japan. Since it opened on July 17, the feature film has overtaken the record made three months earlier by the…
Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, formerly Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, released the box office hit Earth by BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media in movie theaters in Italy. The deal between the media group and the producers of the nature documentary, Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, included the sale of the movie theater, video and TV rights for…
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…
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.
The managing directors of Greenlight Media, Nikolaus Weil and Stefan Beiten, reached a deal with ORF for the sale of the TV rights to seasons I and II of the animated series SimsalaGrimm for a term of four years.
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.
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
