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Kids! 04/28/08 Good morning. It's Monday, April 28, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. Harry Potter is going on the road as the Becker Group teams with Warner Bros. Consumer Products for an international tour titled, Harry Potter: The Exhibition. Featuring objects (e.g. costumes, props etc) from the Harry Potter movies, the 10,000 square-foot state state-of-the-art exhibit will launch in spring 2009 and makes its way to at least 10 cities over the course of five years. And the answer is, yes, the exhibit will be updated as the tour goes along and the final movies are completed and released. NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Now that there will officially be a movie adaptation of The Hobbit and a sequel, with Guillermo del Toro at the helm, the discussion has all turned to casting (alright, as if casting rumors haven't been ongoing regardless of the movie's status). The return of Sir Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis, who played Gandalf and Gollum respectively in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, are all but on board, "all bureaucracy pending ..." according to an interview with del Toro with fan website TheOneRing.net. Eli Roth, the director best known for his R-rated horror movies (Hostel, Cabin Fever), is going for a family audience with his next sci-fi action film, per Yahoo, which quotes the actor as saying, "This will be my first big-budget, PG-13, mass-0destruction movie." Roth is working on a script that he says is inspired by the movies Transformers and Cloverfield. Additionally, Roth did say that he would feed his horror-loving fans by shooting some gorier scenes that will likely be included in an unrated version of the movie for release on DVD. MORE KIDS STUFF Animal Planet celebrates the return of the Meerkats with the premiere of the new season, Meerkat Manor: The Next Generation, Friday, June 6 at 9p, which is a new time for the series. In addition to the new season, Animal Planet will debut Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins, a movie about Flower's life (the matriarch from the previous seasons), Memorial Day Weekend, Sunday, May 25, 8-9:30p. On Friday, May 30, following a repeat of the movie; the network will air a special titled The Science of Meerkat Manor (9:30p). Moshi Monsters, the new kid-targeted virtual world from Mind Candy, the creators of the alternate reality game Perplex City, has emerged from private beta testing. In the multiplayer online game players adopt their own monster character and keep it happy by solving the daily puzzles that are sends, while over time each monster develops a unique personality depending on how well/poorly it is treated. Players can communicate with one another via a range of avenues including Friends Tree, visiting Monster Rooms and the Pinboard messaging system. While Moshi Monsters requires no downloads and is free to play, subscription features for premium elements and offline products are slated to launch in the future. Toei Animation completes a new broadcast deal in France with Virgin 17/MCM for the animated series One Piece. Under the deal Virgin 17/MCM acquires the first 143 episodes of the series, which it began airing over the weekend. In an effort to make the series more faithful the original, Toei has revised the French dubbing of One Piece with a new voice-over cast. Clarification: JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit is a stand-alone book that is not part of his Lord of the Rings trilogy. MARKETING/LICENSING Museum Masters International (MMI) has been appointed by Smileyworld Ltd to license the Smiley brand in the US. MMI's plans include an animated series, a Smiley Museum of kid's art and a retail franchise including free-standing stores and specific areas within stores, as well as licensed products. The first product lines will include stationery, tableware, fashion items, sporting goods, baby, toddlers and kid's products, games and toys. A range of Smiley products launched at retail in Europe last year Crocs, Inc. and Jibbitz, LLC, a unit of Crocs, are launching a new collection of footwear and accessories based on Disney Channel properties, Hannah Montana and High School Musical (HSM), and the upcoming Disney and Pixar film Wall-E. The Mary Jane Hannah Montana style shoes and accessories for kids and juniors will be available from May, 2008, followed this fall by series themed Mammoth Crocs. This summer will also see the addition of HSM themed Jibbitz charms and special themed Cayman-style Crocs. Additionally, Wall-E themed Crocs and Jibbitz debut in May. STONE SOUP Free Comic Book Day will be held in North America and other parts of the world this Saturday, May 3, during which 2 million free comics will be handed out. That is the day after the release of Paramount's Iron Man. For the seventh consecutive Free Comic Book Day, comic book publishers including Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics and Marvel Comics have created special titles across various genres and for a range of age groups (kids-adults), which will be offered for free at comic book retailers. May 3 is also National Cartoonists Day, an event sponsored by the National Cartoonists Society. If you haven't participated before, give it a go it is fun and it is not just the free part. You can find participating retailers in your area at www.comicshoplocator.com. Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13; April 25-27, 2008: Baby Mama (Universal) PG-13 Opening Weekend $18.3m The Forbidden Kingdom (Lionsgate) PG-13 $11.2m-2 wk total $38.3m Nim's Island (Fox) PG $4.2m-4 wk total $39.0m Prom Night (2008) (Sony / Screen Gems) PG-13 $4.4m-3 wk total $38.1m 21 (Sony / Columbia) PG-13 $4.0m-5 wk total $75.8m Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (Fox) G $2.4m-7 wk total $147.9m Leatherheads (Universal) PG-13 $1.8m-4 wk total $29.3m Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Rocky Mountain Pictures) PG $1.4m-2 wk total $5.3m Superhero Movie (MGM (Weinstein)) PG-13 $853,000-5 wk total $24.9m The Visitor (Overture Films) PG-13 $508,000-3 wk total $857km Source: Box Office Mojo RATINGS Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Thursday, April 24, 2008, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11: NICKELODEON: K2-11 1031; K6-11 458; TWEENS 9-14 362 DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 653; K6-11 387; TWEENS 9-14 287 CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 517; K6-11 311; TWEENS 9-14 204 TOON DISNEY: K2-11 133; K6-11 54; TWEENS 9-14 31 Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: What was the name of the dragon on the classic children's series Captain Kangaroo? ORVILLE Kudos to: Richard Quan- Imaginary Time/San Francisco; Lee Williams-Boomstone Animation Inc./Ottawa Today's Trivia Question: In the movie the Sandlot, one of the characters takes a baseball from his step dad and loses it. By whom was this ball autographed? (Email with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers 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.) Later -- Gwen Gwen Billings for Cynopsis: Kids! 04.28.08 Cynopsis Ad Sales: Jennifer Franko - 203-583-9796 / Classifieds - Trish Pihonak- 203-926-9878 / Cynopsis website - Video Resumes, Extended Classified Ads, Archives, and the Cynopsis Daily Video CableU - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Click here A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CYNOPSIS MEDIA: TOP TIER
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