NEW YORK -- Miramax Films has acquired North American distribution rights to the feature-length documentary Deep Blue, from BBC Worldwide and Germany's Greenlight Media. The film is narrated by U.K. thespian Michael Gambon. Inspired by the BBC and Discovery Channel's series The Blue Planet, Deep sets out to explore life "above, below and far beneath the ocean's surface," according to the filmmakers. The project was co-directed by Alastair Fothergill and Andy Byatt and produced by Alix Tidmarsh and Sophokles Tasioulis. Nikolaus Weil, Stefan Beiten, Andre Sikojev and Mike Phillips executive produced. Miramax director of acquisitions Chiara Trento brought Deep into the mini-major.
- 12/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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