Principal photography on Uncharted Territory’s family adventure “Raising Phoenix” to follow.
Uncharted Territory owners Volker Engel and Marc Weigert have joined director Roland Emmerich and producer Harald Kloser as co-producers and visual effects supervisors on Emmerich's new sci-fi action adventure “2012,” to be distributed by Sony Pictures.
Pre-production is underway on the Sony lot in Culver City. The release of this visual effects tour de force is scheduled for July 2009.
Uncharted Territory’s own production, the family adventure “Raising Phoenix,” will start pre-production following the completion of “2012” next summer. Marc Weigert will direct the family adventure written by L.A. scribe Kurt Frey. Engel will produce.
"The Triangle" mini-series, originally shown on Sci-Fi channel in the US as a 3x90min series, will be shown as a two-parter (approx. 2x 130min) on German cable TV station Pro 7 on May 28 and 29, 2007.
"Coronado" will be shown on German prime time Television on April 22nd, 2007. German broadcaster RTL II will show the film at 8.15 PM. The same day, German cable TV station Sat 1, will show a re-run of part 1 of "Die Nibelungen" ("Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King") at 4 PM, followed by part 2 the following week.
The Triangle DVD includes the "Sci-Fi Inside: The Triangle" featurette. Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King includes five "Making of" featurettes.
Uncharted Territory's independent adventure movie Coronado is also available on DVD. It contains extensive special features, including "The Making of Coronado", "Digital Effects: Before and After," producer and director commentary, and deleted scenes.
All DVDs are in widescreen format and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
SCI FI PREMIERE OF "DARK KINGDOM: THE DRAGON KING" MOST-WATCHED MONDAY EVER
SCI FI Channel premiered the original two-part, four-hour fantasy adventure miniseries Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King on March 27 and 28. The premiere averaged a 1.8 HH rating and 2.109 million total viewers (P2+). This is the most-watched Monday program ever for Sci Fi in any second quarter. Dark Kingdom was the #1 movie on cable on Monday with P25-54s (1.181 million), beating Lifetime's Black Widower (1.151 million).
Uncharted Territoryco-produced Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King with Tandem Communications and VIP Medienfonds. Along with co-producing, Volker Engel and Marc Weigert supervised its 671 visual effects shots.
Dark Kingdom previously aired in Germany as Ring of the Nibelungs. Viewed by an estimated 8 million on its opening night (11/29/04), it became one of the most successful events in Germany's television history, receiving the highest ratings of any German TV movie for 2004, and the highest ratings for any Sat1 dramatic production in the network's history. Ring of the Nibelungs was honored with the 2005 German DIVA award for the most successful TV movie of 2004.
Based on the German myth that was one of the inspirations for J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, the miniseries centers on Eric (Benno Fuermann), a young blacksmith who is unaware that his true identity is actually Siegfried, the orphaned heir to a conquered kingdom. When an asteroid strikes the Earth, it sets off a chain of events that sends Eric on an adventure to discover his destiny. He encounters his true love, the Norse warrior Queen Brunhild (Loken), becomes a hero to the Burgunds after slaying the much-feared dragon Fafnir and is rewarded with the ancient treasure trove the beast protected: the treasure of the Nibelungs. Eric ignores warnings of a curse placed on the treasure, an act that ultimately endangers his love for Brunhild and the reclaiming of his birthright.
Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King stars Julian Sands, Kristanna Loken, Alicia Witt, Samuel West, Robert Pattinson and Max Von Sydow. Dark Kingdom is executive-produced by Tim Halkin and Andreas Grosch and produced by Rola Bauer and Andreas Schmid. Diane Duane, Peter Morwood and Uli Edel wrote the miniseries, which was directed by Edel. The miniseries was licensed to SCI FI by Debmar-Mercury and its principals, Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein.
SCI FI earned the #1 spot on cable for the week of 12/5/2005-12/11/2005 with P25-54, topping all 66 measured cable networks and delivering nearly 1.3 million viewers (P25-54) in prime time (M-Su 8pm-11pm). Across its 15 telecasts (12/5-12/11), 'Bryan Singer and Dean Devlin Present The Triangle' scored over 28 million viewers (P2+).
'The six-hour original miniseries event scored an average 3.6 HH rating over its three night original run (December 5-7 @ 9-11pm) making it the highest-rated miniseries on SCI FI since the Emmy Award-winning 'Steven Spielberg Presents TAKEN' (2002).
'The Triangle' made SCI FI Channel the #1 primetime (8-11pm) destination in cable among P25-54 for all three nights that it aired.And 45% of those P25-54 were women. SCI FI's best delivery of F25-54 since 'TAKEN.' The miniseries averaged 4.2 million viewers a night (P2+).
Over 14 million unique total viewers (14.3 million P2+) and more than 8 million unique P25-54s watched one of the first 12 telecasts of 'The Triangle.'
'The Triangle' brought in 4.9 million (P2+) new viewers to SCI FI.
