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· New Series Include All-New "Care
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tween-targeted music & fan magazine "KEWL" www.Kewlmag.com
For
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contact DIC's Dave Danowski at (212) 239-4437
Cynopsis:Kids! 7/24/07
Good morning. It's Tuesday, July 24, 2007and
this is your first early morning briefing.
Cable operator, RCN has completed a multi-year programming deal with Disney-ABC
Television Group and ESPN. Under the pact RCN customers will
be able access a range of programming (depending on their service) including:
VOD content from Disney Channel, ESPN, ABC Family, ABC News broadcasts and a
ABC News Now broadband portal; events on the broadband service ESPN360.com; as
well as programming via ESPN2 HD, a HD simulcast of ESPN2.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
ReBoot is coming back. Rainmaker Animation (f/k/a
Mainframe Entertainment) is currently redeveloping the property, but this time
round it will be a movie trilogy. The first full CGI animated TV
series; produced by Mainframe, ReBoot premiered in 1994 on YTV (Canada), ABC
(US) and later on Cartoon Network (US). Set in a world inside a computer
infrastructure, a la the Tron (1982), Reboot ran for four seasons and had a
significant fan base of both kids and adults, and quite possibly the best ever
animated hair! Rainmaker is looking let ReBoot fans in on the development
of the project to help refine pitches for the movies. Here's how it'll
work. Under Rainmaker's newly-inked deal with comic-fan centric social
network Zeros 2 Heroes, beginning this Thursday July 26, fans can look
at five different pitches from as many teams on the site. Over the course
of a month fans are invited to interact with the teams, and eventually vote on
their favorite pitch. A web comic based on the winning pitch will be
published later this year.
In the, everything old is new again department … Disney's movie Escape
to Witch Mountain (1975) is set to be remade, per the Hollywood Reporter.
Currently titled, Witch Mountain, the new adaptation of the movie will be
directed by Andy Fickman, who directed the movie She's The Man and will
direct the remake of Fame. Escape to Witch Mountain is based on the 1968
book of the same name by sci-fi writer Alexander Key. And nope, Bette
Davis wasn't in this movie; she was in the sequel Return from Witch Mountain
(1978).
MORE KIDS STUFF
4Kids Entertainment has licensed the TV and merchandising rights for
the 2D animated action/adventure series Di-Gata Defenders from Nelvana
Enterprises. Co-produced by Nelvana Ltd. and LuxAnimation,
Di-Gata Defenders will premiere on 4KidsTV, the Saturday morning block
on Fox, from this Saturday, July 28. A toy line based on the
series as well as game for Nintendo DS will launch in the US in spring 2008.
Discovery Kids will celebrate National Literacy Month with new
episodes of Wilbur set to debut the week of September 10, 2007, during
the Ready Set Learn preschool block. Additionally, that week will also
see the debut of new episodes of Peep and the Big Wide World, which will
include an episode voiced by Holly Hunter, Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the
Might Monster Trucks, Hip Hop Harry and Toddworld.
ABC will air a new Sesame Street holiday special Elmo's
Christmas Countdown later this year, according to Hollywood Reporter.
The special will feature a plethora of celebrities including Ben Stiller as the
elf narrator, as well as Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx, Alicia Keys, Sheryl Crow,
and Ty Pennington among others. Expect The Count too.
Taffy Entertainment has completed TV deals across Scandinavia for
a number of its properties.
Free
TV: NRK (Norway) acquires Dive Olly Dive!, SamSam, ToddWorld,
Insectoscope and Waiting for Christmas; SVT (Sweden) takes Dive
Olly Dive and SamSam; TV2 (Denmark) and YLE (Finland) picks
up SamSam; DR (Denmark) takes Dive Olly Dive.
Cable
TV: Cartoon Network Scandinavia acquires the rights to
Fantastic Four and season two of Pet Alien; while Nickelodeon picks
up Growing Up Creepie.
BBC's five-year-old kids channel CBBC will get a rebranded
makeover, with the goal of attracting a broader audience of K6-12.
Crafted by Children's BBC Marketing group working with Red Bee
(brand identity) and Fallon (on-air IDs), the rebrand will debut on the
channel this September 2007. To support and further the new channel
identity and logos, CBBC will unveil several new series next month. The
rebranding initiative will be backed by a multi-platform and interactive campaign.
Series already slated to be part of CBBC fall line-up include: an action
adventure series titled Escape From Scorpion Island; the Doctor Who
spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures; and the new online
environment Adventure Rock.
MARKETING/LICENSING
WizKids Inc., game developer/publisher and unit of the Topps
Company, has inked a deal with Disney to produce the Pirates of the
Caribbean PocketModel game. Set for release in October 2007, the game
will feature content from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and will allows
players to build 3D ships with provided pieces for use in the strategy
game.
Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: Who
am I? I work in uniform and live with a family in a very
architecturally-forward home (at least it seemed so was for the time).
I'm single, tho I do have a steady who after numerous years of dating, finally
proposed. For fun, I like to enter contests and write product jingles.
Who am I? ALICE (Ann B. Davis)/THE BRADY BUNCH Kudos
to: Julie Sockrider-Tween Brands, Inc./New
Albany, OH; Bonnie Bisset-Advertising Sales &
Marketing DIC Entertainment/NY; Denise Wiggins-The Weather Channel/Atlanta;
Enid Chaban-Random House Children's Books/NY; Tom
Boyd-WGN/Chicago; Nicole Marquardt-DNA Digital Media Group/Chicago; Stefanie
Tier Friedman-Top Tier Licensing /Agoura Hills, CA; Sandra
Mueller–KTLA/LA; Zac Reeder-Circus Road Films, Inc./Westlake Village, CA
; Donna Herman-McHale Design-Long Beach, CA
Today's Trivia Question: What was the name of the Indian princess on
"Howdy Doody"? (
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