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CYNTHIA TURNER'S CYNOPSIS
Kids! 03/01/04
Good morning. It's
Monday, March 1, 2004,
and this is your early morning
Kids!
briefing.
The 76th Annual Academy Awards were handed out last night in LA,
with few surprises, except maybe for Bill Murray, who was favored to win
in the best actor category for his role in Lost in Translation, only to
lose to Sean Penn for his role in Mystic River. Returning as host
this year was Billy Crystal who was funny and irreverent who explained
after Lord of the Rings: Return of the King had won a clump of its 11
awards of the evening, ‘It’s official, there’s no one left in New Zealand
to thank,” Crystal followed that up later after another win for Lord of
the Rings, ‘People are moving to New Zealand just to be thanked.’
And expressing what many have thought over the years, Will Ferrell and
Jack Black sang a ditty of advice/warning to Oscar winners, which
included the lyrics (paraphrasing here) ‘Your time is through. You’re
borrrring. You’re rambling on, no end in sight. You’re borrrring. No need
to thank your parakeet. You’re borrrring. Look at Catherine
Zeta-Jones, she’s snorrrring…etc.’ By the way the only other two movies
to win 11 Oscars were Ben Hur (nominated in 12 categories, 1959) and
Titanic (nominated in 14 categories, 1997).
Oscar Winners for PG-13 include: Best Animated Feature Film: Finding Nemo (Buena Vista)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (New Line), for Best Picture,
Director, Art Direction, Costume Design, Film Editing, Make-Up, Music
Original Score, Music Original Song (Into the West, music/lyrics Fran
Walsh/Howard Shore and Annie Lennox), Sound Mixing, Visual Effects,
Adapted Screenplay.
Officer and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Fox): Cinematography,
Sound Editing.
Discovery Kids officially begins its search for twenty tweens
(12-15) contestants today to take part in the third season of its
reality based competition series Endurance, which airs Saturday
mornings on Discovery Kids on NBC (11:30a) and several times during the
week on Discovery Kids. Those who think that they have got what it
takes to spend two weeks in a remote destination where they will undergo
a variety of physical and mental tests of endurance can either call the
Discovery Kids toll-free number (1-800-PICK-Me-1) or go to
http://kids.discovery.com/fansites/endurance/endurance.html.
Would be participants will need to send in a video (under 5 min.)
explaining why they think they are up to such a challenge. The
Endurance season three application deadline is April 12 of this
year.
BKS Entertainment’s series The Dooley and Pals Show (39 x
:30) is available for broadcast beginning April 2004. The
mixed live action & 3D animated preschool series about an alien named
Dooley ran on PBS stations briefly between April 2000-April 2003 (not all
stations aired all episodes). The series aired in full on the ETV’s
network of 11 TV stations in South Carolina.
Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or
PG-13 - February 2729 50 First Dates (Sony)
PG-13
$12.6m-3 wk total $88.7m
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (Disney) PG $6.2m-2 wk total
$16.7m
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (Lions Gate)
PG-13 Opening weekend
$5.9m
Miracle (Disney)
PG
$4.4m-4 wk total $56.3m
Welcome to Mooseport (Fox)
PG-13
$3.4m-2 wk total $11.6m
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (MGM)
PG-13
$3.1m-4 wk total $57.5m
The Lord of the Rings: Return King (New Line) PG-13 $2.2m-11wk
total $364.1m
Against the Ropes (Paramount)
PG-13
$1.3m-2 wk total $5.1m
You Got Served (Sony / Screen Gems)
PG-13
$1.2m-5 wk total $38.1m
Something's Gotta Give (Sony)
PG-13
$850,000-12 wk total $122.8m Source: Box Office Mojo
Child Magazine has announced the results
of its survey to find the top family friendly restaurant chains
in the US. The survey (available at
http://www.child.com
and in the April issue of Child, on stands March 24) was based on ‘strict
criteria and data’ collected over the course of the five month survey of
125 kid’s menus of the biggest full-service, sit-down chain
restaurants. Each menu was evaluated on the following criteria: did
the menu contain at least two to four nutritional entrees; were
vegetables, besides french fries, included (salad was offered on 19% of
menus); and was milk one of the beverage choice (100% of the restaurants
offered soda, only 67% offered milk). Additionally, each menu was
assessed by five nutritional experts who gave each menu a score, which
were then averaged and accounted for 75% of a given restaurants
grade. The remaining 25% of the grades were based on kid-friendly
activities, its smoking policy, participation in kid’s charities and
schools, and access to high chairs, booster seats, and diaper-changing
tables in women’s/men’s restrooms. Based on those criteria only 20
menus fit the minimum requirements. The Top 10 family-friendly restaurant chains in the US: Legal Sea Foods: (US locations: 28)
Mimi's Cafe: (US Locations: 80)
Red Lobster: (US Locations: 649)
The Melting Pot: (US Locations: 70)
The Old Spaghetti Factory: (US Locations: 40)
Benihana: (US Locations: 71)
Ruby Tuesday: (US Locations: 702)
Chili's Grill & Bar: (US Locations: 868)
Elephant Bar Restaurant: (US Locations: 28)
TIE: Bertucci's: (US Locations: 89)
Chevys Fresh Mex: (US Locations: 114) Source: Child Magazine (Gruner + Jahr)
Pro Sports & Entertainment, Inc., an owner, operator and
marketer of live sporting and entertainment events, has acquired the
Core Tour, a nationwide action sports and music festival tour.
The Core Tour series is comprised of pro & amateur competitions in
BMX dirt jumping, skateboarding, in-line skating, mountain boarding and
feature live concerts. The tour, now in its fourth year, airs on
the FOX Sports Network’s Core Culture action sports TV show, with Pro
Sports & Entertainment, Inc. aiming to expand TV coverage into
multiple markets in 2005 via Fox and other broadcast outlets. Annual
sponsors of the events include Panasonic, Nokia, OTB Jeanswear, Paul
Mitchell, Butterfinger, Got Milk?, Lifesavers and Arrowhead Water.
Upcoming Core Tour events will be held at Venice Beach, California (June
11-13), South Street Seaport, New York (July 16-18) and Huntington Beach,
California (September 10-12).
Beginning March 8 The Gap expands its GapMaternity line
into 10 more brick and mortar babyGap stores across the
country. Gap began adding maternity to babyGap stores in January
2003, and now carries its maternity line in 33 babyGap stores.
Until last year the four year old GapMaternity line had been available
exclusively at
www.gap.com.
KB Toys, Inc. has upped Sal Vasta to EVP/Corporate
Buying, reporting to Bill McMahon, COO/KB Toys. In his new role
Vasta will be responsible for all buying, merchandising and inventory
management associated with KB’s retail, wholesale and internet
divisions. Most recently Vasta served as EVP/Strategic Business
& Wholesale as well as helping to develop relationships with Sears,
Safeway, CVS/pharmacy & QVC among others.
Linda Fears has been named Editor in Chief/YM Magazine, Gruner
+ Jahr; she had been Deputy Editor/Parents magazine, G+J, working
under Sally Lee, Editor in Chief/Parents magazine. Fears takes the
reigns of the teen magazine YM following the resignation of Christina
Kelly EIC/YM the week of February 18, 2004. Lee has added the title
of Editorial Director/Parents Media Group in addition to her
responsibilities as EIC/Parents magazine, and will continue to supervise
Fears in her new role. The Parents Media Group includes Parents
Expecting, Parents Baby, Ser Padres and Parents.com.
Kids Cable Network
Averages in thousands (000) for
Thursday, February 26,
2004 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:
K2-11 1340; K6-11 600; TWEENS 9-14 404
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 644; K6-11 342; TWEENS 9-14
302
DISNEY CHANNEL:
K2-11 642; K6-11 342; TWEENS 9-14 254
ABC
FAMILY:
K2-11 168; K6-11 125; TWEENS 9-14 115
TOON
DISNEY:
K2-11 123; K6-11 49; TWEENS 9-14
26 Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
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Answer to yesterday's Trivia
Question:Stanley Beamish is better
known as whom? MR. TERRIFIC! Kudos to: Bob
Greenberger-DC Comics/NY; Uva Hodgins-CTAM/Alexandria; Mindy Bloom-WTWB;
David Kern-ITN Networks/NY; Steve Leblang-FX Networks/LA; and Grace
Benn-Sony/LA.
Today's Trivia Question:
This character first appear in 1949 in the theatrical Fast and
Furry-Ous. His limited vocabulary was initially created with a
Klaxon. He has been referred to as Fastius Tasty-us, Super Sonicus and
Velocitus Incalculus. Who is it? (To answer
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