Good morning! It's
Monday, January 31, 2005,
and this is your first early morning
Multi-Cultural
briefing.
HISPANIC MARKET:
People en Espanol will re-launch its
www.peopleenespanol.com website today. The revised site will include more
information on the Hispanic magazine's entertainment news, breaking news,
a fashion/beauty channel and more. The Conectate editorial page
will debut on the new website. The new site will team up with AOL
Latino to promote each other and collaborate on web-based projects
including behind-the-scenes specials.
MTV and Jennifer Lopez are collaborating on a new 1-hour
documentary set to air on February 24 at 10 pm on MTV centering on the
celeb's first fashion show at Olympus Fashion Week for her new fall
clothing line titled "Jennifer Lopez: Beyond the
Runway". In the doc, the cameras will trail Jennifer's
designers as they attempt to meet deadlines and the whole clothing
approval process.
LATAM MARKET:
Top 10 Mexican Box Office Estimates - January 14-20,
2005 Los Fockers (United Intl.
Pictures)
$2.23 million 2 wk total $5.3m
Lemony Snicket: Una Serie..(United Intl.
Pictures) $1.39 million opening
wk
La Leyenda del Tesoro Perdido (Buena Vista
Intl.) $1.19 million 3 wk total
$6.07m
Los Incredibles (Buena Vista
Intl.)
$838,527 5 wk total $14.7m
Closer: Llevados por el Deseo (Sony Pictures
Intl.) $691,021 opening wk
R. de Color Purpura 2
(Videocine)
$595,716 2 wk total 1.40m
La Nueva Gran Estafa (Warner
Bros.)
$517,656 3 wk total $6.78m
Al Caer la Noche
(Gussi)
$357,143 opening wk
Taxi (20th Century
Fox)
$275,580 3 wk total $1.67m
El Hijo de Chucky
(Gussi)
$149,858 3 wk total $1.07m Source: Nielsen EDI and Variety
AFRICAN AMERICAN
MARKET:
Former Roc-A-Fella CEO Damon Dash and
co-founder Kareem "Biggs" Burke are banding together to
launch a new music entity titled Damon Dash Music Group. In
addition to signing on new talent, the company will operate as an
umbrella organization for such record labels as Dream Factory (with
producer 7 Aurelius) and Militain Musica (with rapper N.O.R.E.).
Rumor has it that Wu-Tang Clan and M.O.P./the First Family may be the
next partnerships to join Damon Dash Music Group.
Funkmaster Flex has picked up another deal with his recent
Castrol's Syntec motor oil contract. The two-year agreement
will see Syntec as the exclusive motor oil for Flex's Team Baurtwell
business ventures (custom car club). In addition, Castrol will hold
the television, radio, print, online and photographic rights for
advertising, events and promotional programs. The first move will include
a 30-second commercial run on Spike TV's Ride With Funkmaster Flex.
A custom Castrol Syntec automobile will be designed and showcased on
Flex's TV show and on his US "Celebrity Car Show Tour".
New York-based Ogilvy & Mather (WPP Group) handled the ad
responsibilities for Castrol.
MIDDLE EAST MARKET:
Egypt's television shows will soon be subject to
religious censorship in a move that will place restrictions in a
country that has been an epicenter of television production in the Middle
East. According to Minister of Information Mamduh Al-Beltagi, the
TV shows must be "responsible" and "respect the values and
traditions of Egyptian society. The media cannot be transformed into
instruments to distil poison under the pretext of artistic
license." The shows will first be submitted to Al-Azhar (Sunni
Muslim authority) and Egypt's strong minority Christian Coptic
church. The A Girl From Shubra miniseries has already been denied
from airing (dealt with a relationship between a Christian woman and
Muslim man in the 1940s) due to its "dealing with relationships
between Christians and Muslims in a way that undermines national
unity."
GAY/LESBIAN MARKET:
TLA Releasing, a GLBT-oriented film distributor,
will expand its business into the UK with 12-16 US catalog movie
titles to be released annually on DVD. The company will pick up
additional movies for theatrical release. Some of the movies to be
released in England include Latter Days, The Trip, P.S. Your Cat is Dead,
Regular Guys, Cowboys and Angels, Everyone and Slutty Summer. TLA
will open a London office in London with distribution set to begin in
July.
Michael McManus, author of the syndicated column "Ethics
& Religion”, is the latest to show up on the Department of Health
and Human Services' subcontractor payroll according to USA Today
and Salon.com. The columnist was reportedly paid to promote the
Bush administration marriage initiative for approximately $10,000.
This follows news that syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher and African
American writer/broadcaster Armstrong Williams were also paid by the
administration to promote the marriage initiative and other
administration programs.
INTERNATIONAL MARKET:
MTV will debut its pan-African music
channel on February 22. In addition to airing global MTV
fanfare, the new 24-hour channel will develop and integrate local African
music talent such as Femi Kuti (Nigeria), Magic System (Ivory Coast), SSP
(Angola), Nameless (Kenya), VIP (Ghana), Zama Jobe (South Africa) and
Angelique Kidjo (Benin). The channel will initially reach 1.3
million homes on multichannel operators DStv, Trend TV, CTL and
FSTV.
etc., ALL MARKETS:
Creative Civilization (Aguilar/Girard Agency)
named Mike De La Garza as Director of Client Services and
Public Relations to the agency's executive management team.
Clear Channel Entertainment Television named Dennis Spencer
as SVP/MD for International Distribution and
Programming. He will oversee CCETV's expansion of its new music
and entertainment international programming and distribution enterprise
(launched in the fall) and work with Steve Sterling, SVP of Clear Channel
Entertainment TV, on this initiative. Dennis was previously VP/MD
of international programming for CCETV. He will report to Joe
Townley, president of Clear Channel Entertainment TV.
Answer to Yesterday's Trivia
Question:" ... Welcome to a private
showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a
collector's item in its own way - not because of any special artistic
quality, but because each captures on a canvas, suspends in time and
space, a frozen moment of a nightmare. ... " This is the
opening of what show? NIGHT GALLERY. Kudos to:
Scott Jolles-NCC/Atlanta; Dan Persons-Upstart Co/NY; Ed Goode-Connelly
Partners/Boston; Jody Davis-WUPA/Atlanta; Brian Nugent-KPIF/Pocatello;
Meghan McGuinness-Harris Corp./Colorado Springs; Michael Lopez-DAS
Ent/Silicon Valley; Matt Wayne-Warner Animation/Sherman Oaks; Kathleen
Campbell-Warner Bros/Burbank.
Today's Trivia Question: This
location was billed as the 'wettest, soggiest, and dreariest place on
Earth'. Where is it? (click
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from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you've been mentioned in
any of the Cynopsis editions, you can't be mentioned again that calendar
week.)
Saludos - Ariana
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