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Cynopsis:Kids!
10/11/05
Good morning. It's
Tuesday, October 11,
2005, and this is your first early morning
Kids! briefing.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill restricting
the sale & rental of ultra-violent video games to minors.
Games that contain the violence outlined in the bill must include a label
on the front of the box that reads "18+", in order to be sold
in California. Those retailers who violate the law will be served with a
$1,000 fine. In signing the bill, Schwarzenegger joined Governors Rod
Blagojevich of Illinois and Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, who recently
signed similar legislation in their states. Upon Schwarzenegger's signing
of the bill, Douglas Lowenstein President/Entertainment Software
Association, the organization that represents the interactive video game
industry, said, "We are disappointed that politicians of both
parties chose to toss overboard the First Amendment and free artistic and
creative expression in favor of political expediency." Just as it
has in Illinois and Michigan, the Entertainment Software Association
intends to file a lawsuit in California against the enactment of the law.
The organization has filed similar lawsuits in Washington State and
Missouri where similar video-game sales laws have been overturned by the
courts there.
Mattel, Inc. has consolidated the Mattel Brands and
Fisher-Price Brands divisions into one division called
Brands. The new global Brands division includes the Barbie, Hot
Wheels and Fisher-Price brands as well as licensed entertainment
properties, including toys for Batman, Dora-the-Explorer and Sesame
Street. Neil B. Friedman will move from President of
Fisher-Price Brands to President/Brands, with a primary directive of
coordinating activities across four major brand groups within Mattel:
that is, Boys/Entertainment; Girls; Infant-Preschool; and Fisher-Price
Friends. Matthew Bousquette, the former President of Mattel
Brands, exits the company to pursue other business ventures after 17-yrs
at Mattel.
NEW PRODUCTION &
DEVELOPMENT
Foothill Entertainment Inc. will attend MIPCOM
Junior for the first time this month showcasing a number of properties
including those from Phew!! (UK), phuuz entertainment inc.
(US), Papageno Films (New Zealand) and Seoul Movie:
Phew's Food Chain has been optioned and is being developed by
Warner Bros. Animation, while Me and My Shadow is currently being
developed as an Australia/Ireland co-production. Foothill hopes to seal
deals for Phew's property Snapper at the upcoming market.
phuuz's property Kid Kaiju has been optioned and is in
development with Warner Bros. Animation, and Special Delivery is
in the pilot process in Quebec by producer, Sarbakan. Foothill
anticipates the signing of several deals during MIPCOM for these two
properties as well as for the phuuz property Iconcicles.
The Dress Up Box (52 x 5min), the Papageno Films' live action
pre-school series. Foothill has already closed deals in the US and is the
negotiation process with licensees in other territories. The Dress
Up Box airs in New Zealand on TV3.
My Little Fox (26 x 30min) a new animated series from Seoul
Movie. Targeted to K6-10 the series features a 2D animation style.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Bandai Games Inc. is publishing Naruto:
NarutimateHero for PlayStation2 in the US. The
game is scheduled for release in Q1 2006 and features four action
modes, 14 playable characters and a range of action moves. Naruto
is based on the storyline first introduced by noted manga creator Masahi
Kishimoto in Japan's Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine in 1999.
VIZ Media is the Master Licensor for TV, home video and merchandising
rights to Naruto for North America and Latin America. Naruto:
Narutimate Hero was developed by CyberConnect2.
Set for release November 7 is Nintendo's new Mario Party
7. It includes 80 mini-games and can accommodate up to eight
simultaneous players. Mario Party 7 features characters from
Nintendo's game universe and comes with a GameCube Mic, which takes voice
commands to control for use with some of the new mini-games. Mario
Party 7 will be available for purchase either separately or as part of a
special bundle with Nintendo GameCube and two controllers.
Today marks the release of Nickelodeon/Nick Jr.'s new Dora the
Explorer DVD, Dora's Dance to the Rescue from Paramount
Home Video. In the Dance to the Rescue, Dora and her pal Boots
and must dance their way to earn their big wish, to set Swiper the Fox
free from the magic bottle. The special will make its TV premiere
Friday, November 11 at 11a on Nick Jr. In addition, Dora will
keep on dancing with the CD release of Dora the Explorer Dance Fiesta!,
from Nick Records/Sony BMG. The CD features two duets with famed
artists Carlos Santana and Los Lonely Boys.
MARKETING/LICENSING
Jazwares has been named the master toy licensee
for Mustard Pancakes, a new preschool TV series on
PBS. Set to debut this month at the October 2005 American
International Toy Fair in NY, the Mustard Pancakes toy line will include
plush, action figures and play sets. The series is produced by Mustard
Pancakes Productions Inc. in association with Oregon Public
Broadcasting and distributed by American Public Television.
Additionally, Morehouse Mustard has signed on as a sponsor for the
TV series. Beginning early December, Morehouse Mustard bottles will
be tagged with a one-dollar coupon to be redeemed on the Mustard Pancakes
DVD, which will be released through Arrow Distributing Company.
The Topps Company has signed a multi-year exclusive spokesperson
deal with NBA Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade. Under the
agreement Topps has the exclusive right within the NBA trading card
category for autographed cards, memorabilia cards and Wade's image use on
packaging and advertising. Topps recently entered into a similar
spokesperson deal with Allen Iverson (76ers), and has signed other
exclusive agreements with Hip Hop artist/producer Shawn "Jay-Z"
Carter and baseball players Alex Rodriguez (Yankees) and Barry Bonds
(Giants).
STONE SOUP
eGames, Inc., has entered into an agreement to
acquire substantially all of the assets of Cinemaware, Inc., a
developer of interactive entertainment software for console game
platforms and the PC. The assets to be acquired upon completion of
the deal consist of Cinemaware's intellectual property, contract rights
and goodwill. As part of the transaction, Lars Fuhrken-Batista,
Cinemaware's President, joins eGames as its new
VP/Development. Batista will be in charge of internal product
development and external acquisition opportunities. The transaction
is expected to close before the end of October, 2005. Batista
formed Cinemaware, Inc. in 2000 upon acquiring of the Cinemaware
interactive entertainment software trademark and intellectual property
previously owned by Cinemaware Corporation, originally founded in
1985.
Weekend Box Office for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13;
October 7-10, 2005: Wallace&Gromit/Curse Were-Rabbit (DreamWorks) G Opening
weekend $16.0m
Flightplan (Buena Vista)
PG-13
$10.8m-3 wk total $60.9m
In Her Shoes (Fox)
PG-13
Opening weekend $10.0m
The Gospel (Sony / Screen Gems)
PG
Opening weekend $7.5m
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Warner Bros.)
PG
$6.5m-4 wk total $42.1m
Serenity (Universal)
PG-13
$5.4m-2 wk total $18.0m
Into the Blue (Sony)
PG-13
$4.8m-2 wk total $13.9m
The Greatest Game Ever Played (Buena Vista)
PG $3.9m-2 wk total $8.7m
Just Like Heaven (DreamWorks)
PG-13
$3.5m-4 wk total $43.6m
The Exorcism/Emily Rose (Sony/Screen Gems) PG-13 $2.4m-5 wk total
$72.1m Source: Box Office Mojo
AOL RED for teens is winding down its annual Scary Movie
Contest! Teens 13-17 have been invited to make a scary movie (3
min or less), which are due tomorrow. The scary movies will be
judged according to three criteria: setting, acting and
originality. Entries will be whittled down to five finalists by the
judges around October 20, 2005, and AOL members will be able to vote for
their favorite of the five from October 21-28 (Keyword: Scary Movie
Contest).
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Buena Vista Games, Inc. has appointed two
executives to its video game development/publishing division.
Raj Murari has been named VP/Strategic Development &
integration, BVG, overseeing strategies, new business opportunities
and the global operational integration of BVG business expansion
initiatives, as well as establishing BVG's business in Asia. Murari will
report to Graham Hopper, SVP/GM. And Mark Meyers has been
named VP/Internal Studios. Meyers will lead BVG's internal
studios, Avalanche Software in Salt Lake City and Propaganda Games in
Vancouver, and head up their ongoing growth and success. He will also
manage studio technologies and set strategies for technology sharing.
Meyers reports to Mike Ryder, VP/Worldwide Production.
Several changes at the publicly held company GameStop Corp.
(previously known as GSC Holdings Corp): R. Richard Fontaine
has been named to serve as Chairman/CEO; Daniel A. DeMatteo
as Vice Chairman/COO, Joe DePinto as President and
David W. Carlson as EVP/CFO. The appointments are
part of the completion of the merger between GameStop and
Electronics Boutique Holdings Corp., atransaction first
announced in April 2005. Under the terms of the merger agreement,
Historical GameStop and Electronics Boutique each became wholly-owned
subsidiaries of GameStop Corp. Joining the GameStop Corp.
Board of Directors will be four outside business leaders: James J.
Kim, founder of Electronics Boutique, who served as Chairman of its
Board of Directors; Stanley ("Mickey") Steinberg,
formerly a Director/Electronics Boutique, and a Sr. Advisor/Cosas,
Benjamin and While, LLC. Jerome L. Davis, former Global VP/Service
Excellence, Electronic Data Systems; and Larry S. Zilavy, retired
as EVP/Corporate Finance & Strategic Planning, Barnes & Noble,
Inc. in November 2004.
RATINGS
Kids Cable Network
Averages in thousands (000) for
Thursday, October 6,
2005, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:
K2-11 1023; K6-11 428; Tweens 9-14 353
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11
671; K6-11 385; Tweens 9-14 284
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 513; K6-11 305; Tweens 9-14 239
TOON
DISNEY:
K2-11 77; K6-11 39; Tweens
9-14 25 Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Kids Cable Network
Averages in thousands (000) for
Friday, October 7,
2005, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:
K2-11 1105; K6-11 555; Tweens 9-14 389
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11
810; K6-11 523; Tweens 9-14 444
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 760; K6-11 462; Tweens 9-14 299
TOON
DISNEY:
K2-11 65; K6-11 41; Tweens
9-14 39 Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Friday's Trivia Question:Who would
you find dressed in formal wear, living at the Megopolis Zoo?
TENNESSEE TUXEDO Kudos to: Mark
Krause-WXMI/Grand Rapids; Kristen Tuinstra-Zonderkidz/Grand Rapids MI;
Megan Buecher-HIT Entertainment/NY; Gerry Bixenspan-TV Marketing/NY; Tom
Boyd-WGN TV/Chicago; Kerri Huyck-KIDK TV/Idaho Falls; Kevin
Schmidt-National Cable Communications/Chicago; Matt Wayne-Warner
Animation/Sherman Oaks; David McDermott/Venice CA
Today's trivia question:
"One-Eyed" Willy's hidden fortune and the cavern under Fratelli
family's house were adventures found where?(
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