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CYNTHIA TURNER'S CYNOPSIS
Kids! 02/09/04
Good morning. It's
Monday, February 9, 2004,
and this is your early morning
Kids!
briefing.
Dark Horse Comics announced it will purchase manga publishing and
production house Studio Proteus under a pending agreement.
Dark Horse has worked with Studio Proteus co-publishing manga since the
publication of Dark Horse’s Outlanders in 1988, and together they have
produced nearly 60,000 pages of material. The acquisition will also
include all Studio Proteus manga previously published with Eclipse and
Innovation. Studio Proteus’s Toren Smith will retain the company’s name,
and will serve as a consultant for Dark Horse as well as translating
select manga titles for them.
Following the completion of Fox’s full length Garfield movie (release
June 25, 2004), director Peter Hewitt (Tom & Huck, Bill & Ted’s
Bogus Journey) is set to begin work on the movie The Great Hartford
Elementary Heist (Universal) and produced by Tom Hanks and Gary
Goetzman’s Playtone Productions, as per Daily Variety. The
project initially announced in spring 2003 follows the story of an 11
year old boy and his friends work together on their mission to recover
their various personal belongings commandeered by the school principle.
The N (daily 6p-5a) marks Valentine’s Day with the I
Heart Love Marathon, a series of relationship themed mini-marathons
highlighting episodes featuring teen relationships, airing February 13,
14 & 15 6p-5:30a. The event includes episodes of Radio Free
Roscoe. Clueless, Degrassi: The Next Generation, and Daria.
ASIFA-Hollywood, The International Animated Film Society presented its
31st Annual Annie Awards honoring the year’s outstanding
achievement in animation across film, TV, commercials, videos and
special projects in 22 categories on Saturday night in Glendale,
CA. With nominees and winners voted on by members of the
ASIFA-Hollywood, The Annie Awards are considered to be the highest honor
for excellence in animation. Heading into the Annie Awards ceremony
in the animated feature film categories Finding Nemo headed up the pack
with 12 nominations, coming out a winner in all nine categories in which
those nominations fell, Brother Bear went in with 8 nods and walked away
empty handed from the evening, as did Sinbad which had received four
nominations. As for the international titles Millennium Actress
received four nominations and Triplets of Bellville with three, similarly
walked away without a win. While Finding Nemo, Brother Bear and
Triplets of Bellville are also Oscar nominated pictures, Millennium
Actress was entered for Oscar consideration and passed over, while
DreamWorks chose not to enter Sinbad in the Oscar running. In the
Annie’s TV categories walking into Saturday night My Life as a Teenage
Robot lead the way with five nominations, followed by Duck Dodgers,
Samurai Jack and The Simpsons each with four nominations, with Samurai
Jack winning two and The Simpsons taking home four. A full list of
categories, nominations and winners can be found at
www.annieawards.org.
Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Theatrical Feature: Finding Nemo, Pixar Animation Studios
Outstanding Achievement in an Animation Home Entertainment
Production:
The Animatrix, Silver pictures/Warner Home Video
Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Short Subject Boundin, Pixar Animation Studios
Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Production: The Simpsons, Gracie Films
Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Production Produced for Children: The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Nickelodeon & DNA Productions
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production: Ellen DeGeneres as the voice of Dory, Finding Nemo
Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production: Jeff Garcia as the voice of Sheen Estevez, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, episode; Nightmare in Retroville
Writing in an Animated Feature Production: Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, Dave Reynolds, Finding Nemo
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production: Ricky Nierva, Finding Nemo
Character Design in an Animated Television Production: Andy Suriano for an episode of Samurai Jack
The 46th Annual Grammy Awards were handed out last night on CBS, live from the Stapes Center in LA. Big winners of the evening included Beyonce, The White Stripes, Justin Timberlake, and country/bluegrass singer Alison Krauss with the award for new best artist going to Evanescence. Winners who are highly regarded by both industry insiders and fans alike included K.D. Lang and Tony Bennett for their duet, Luther Vandross who accepted via video from NYC where he is convalescing from a stroke, with individual posthumous awards going to Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash, and June Carter Cash for their work on recent albums and videos. Winners in the two kid specific categories were: for Best Spoken Word Album for Children-Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Beintus: Wolf Tracks) as read by the unlikely trio of Bill Clinton, Mikahil Gorbachev and Sophia Loren; and Best Musical Album for Children-Bon Appetit!, Cathy Fink and March Marxer (Rounder Kids). Additionally, in the TV/Movie area winners included; Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television of Other Visual Media-The Lord of the Rings-The Two Towers, Howard Shore, Composer (Reprise Records/WMG Soundtracks); Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media; A Mighty Wind (from A Mighty Wind)-Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy & Michael McKean/Songwriters (The Folksmen, Mitch & Mickey, and The New Main Street Singers), from the Mighty Wind Soundtrack (DMZ/Columbia Records/Sony Music Soundtrax; Publishers: Shmenge Music, Coney Island Whitefish Music & Tuxedo Time Music).
Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13 - February 68 Barbershop 2: Back in Business (MGM) PG-1 Opening weekend $25.1m
Miracle (Disney) PG Opening weekend $19.4m
You Got Served (Sony / Screen Gems) PG-13 $19.4-2 wk total $26.0m
Along Came Polly (Universal) PG-13 $7.0m-4 wk total $75.2m
Catch That Kid (Fox) PG Opening weekend $6.0m
The Lord of the Rings (New Line) PG-13 $6.0m-8 wk total $351.2m
Big Fish (Sony) PG-13 $3.1m-9 wk total $59.7m
The Perfect Score (Paramount) PG-13 $3.0m-2wk total $8.6m
Something's Gotta Give (Sony) PG-13 $2.6m-9 wk total $115.5m
Cheaper by the Dozen (Fox) PG $2.5-7 wk total $131.3m Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com
The next generation of video game consoles are poised to outsell all previous video gaming platforms, according to a new Juniper Research report. Slated to begin rolling out in 2005, from both the usual suspects (Sony, Nintendo & Microsoft) as well as some smaller competitors, the new round of video gaming consoles are expected to take on the world of convergence in a big way by including the addition of various features and functionality, integrated high-speed internet gaming, wireless connectivity between machines and handhelds, and positioning the units as overall home media/entertainment centers. The report projects that online gaming via video game consoles will reach some 28 million regular users by 2008, with the downloading of new games and levels becoming mainstream, additionally next generation handheld hardware revenues forecasted to reach upwards of $25 billion by 2008. The obvious wrinkle as we move closer to the 2005 release dates, albeit a short-term issue is the increasing decline in current next generation console sales as consumers put off purchasing a unit until the new consoles are launched.
Electronic Arts and Marvel Enterprises have entered into a multi-year licensing agreement that allows EA to develop a series of fighting video-games pitting Marvel’s superhero against a new set of characters being developed by EA, with the first game slated for release in 2005. Conversely EA has granted Marvel the exclusive rights as the worldwide licensing agent for all consumer products and media licensees for the new EA characters. Marvel will publish comic books introducing the new EA characters.
Stephen Tapp, EVP/Television, CHUM Limited, announced a senior management restructuring of Chum Television’s West Coast operations, which will be effective as of March, 1. Howard Slutsken VP&GM/The New VI in Victoria exits the company to form his own consulting firm serving and he will serve as an exclusive broadcast consultant with Chum TV. Brad Phillps, currently VP & GM/Citytv, Vancouver has been promoted to the newly created position of VP/Chum Television BC. In this role Phillips will be responsible for both The New VI and Citytv Vancouver. Another newly created new position Station Manger for The New VI will report to Phillips, the announcement of that appointment is pending.
Kids Cable Network Averages in thousands (000) for Thursday February 5, 2004, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1235; K6-11 576; TWEENS 9-14 311
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 758; K6-11 419; TWEENS 9-14 351
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 679; K6-11 393; TWEENS 9-14 324
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 150; K6-11 62; TWEENS 9-14 50
ABC FAMILY: K2-11 85; K6-11 69; TWEENS 9-14 115 Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
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Answer to Friday's Trivia Question:Of course you know who Heckle and Jeckle are, but what was the name of their slightly dense bulldog target? DIMWIT. Okay, let's try another ....
Today's Trivia Question: From what show did you see this exchange: Character #1: You're the only one who ever sees this blue guy
Character #2: He's real!
Character #1: Well, of course he's real to you, dear, but that's because you're probably insane
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