During the Thessaloniki Film Festival, BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media have signed a deal with Balkan distributor Prooptiki for the $15m feature earth. The company, soon to be known as Audio Visual/Prooptiki, will distribute the 90-minute feature in Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro. The deal was brokered by Prooptiki’s Eugenia Mitropoulos, and Sophokles…
A polar bear, an elephant and a whale are the BBC’s contenders for the next Oscars. The astonishing wildlife footage that entranced viewers in the groundbreaking BBC television series Planet Earth is to be turned into a film that could spearhead Britain’s Oscar challenge in 2008. Speaking after an appearance at The Times Cheltenham Literature…
Books are proving to be fertile ground for producers looking for a bright idea that will capture the imagination of kids around the world In a market as crowded as the kids’ business is, there’s not much that can top the benefits of launching a property with built-in brand awareness. And much like toys and…
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…
Spanish-German co-production “The Great Match” has sold to five territories since last month’s premiere in the Berlin Film Festival’s Berlinale Special section. Helmer Gerardo Olivares’ feature debut, a multi-ethnic comedy about the attempts of tribal groups around the world to watch a soccer match, has sold to French distrib Ocean Film, Greece’s Rosebud Film, Xenix…
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…
A surprisingly enjoyable ethno-romp, The Great Match is both a celebration of the global reach of football mania and a sly send-up of worthy anthropological epics like Himalaya. The three interleaved stories – about tribal soccer fans in remote parts of the globe who are desperate to see the 2002 World Cup final – will…
Universum Film has picked up German rights to the BBC’s $15 million natural history feature “Earth.” The sale was struck by the BBC’s production and distribution partner Greenlight Media. Pic has already been pre-sold to Gaga in Japan, Gaumont in France, Wanda in Spain and Frenetic in Switzerland. Universum, part of the RTL Group, will…