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.
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.
Speech of the GLM Executive Board at San Sebastián film festival – world premiere of “Deep Blue” Block 1: (Stefan Beiten) Introduction to self Thank you Rupert Gavin for your words of appreciation. There is really not much to add. For Greenlight, working with BBC Worldwide as one of the worlds leading providers of documentaries…
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.
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…
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…
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.
Following the global success of March Of The Penguins, animal films are the hot new genre. But is there a market for theatrical wildlife documentaries? Melanie Rodier reports. From meerkats to elephants, turtles to polar bears: in the post March Of The Penguins marketplace, a host of animal-based nature documentaries are trying to recreate the…
The Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin’s tony Dahlem district was the venue for Sunday’s recording session by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for the BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media feature-length natural history documentary, “Earth.” Helmed by Alastair Fothergill, “Earth” follows polar bears, elephants and humpback whales as they face a migratory existence in a world that is fast-changing….
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…
– Nikolaus Weil, Greenlight Media GmbH
