Cynopsis: Kids

Cynopsis: Kids!12.12.12 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, December 12, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing. Hasbro unites all its TV, film, short-form and commercial production content under Stephen Davis, President of LA-based Hasbro Studios. Davis will report to Hasbro CMO John Frascotti. Davis, who has helmed the worldwide TV development/production/distribution group for […]

Cynopsis: Kids!12.11.12 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, December 11, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing. Genius Brands International, developer/marketer of the Baby Genius line of music/education products, steps into the TV world as it begins development on an animated series for K6-9 based on its Genius brand. The company has brought on […]

Cynopsis: Kids!12.10.12 Good morning. It’s Monday, December 10, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing. More Nikki Maxwell is on the way as Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, unveils plans to publish the seventh and eighth books in the popular Dork Diaries series by Rachel Renee Russell in […]

Cynopsis: Kids!12.07.12 Good morning. It’s Friday, December 7, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing. Smart Bomb Interactive, a developer/publisher of family-aimed games partners with JLK Brand Licensing Group to grow its kid-targeted National Geographic Animal Jam (www.animaljam.com) virtual world and game offline. With an emphasis on the natural world, self-expression […]

Cynopsis: Kids!12.06.12 Good morning. It’s Thursday, December 6, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing. Media/music/fashion/entertainment entrepreneur and philanthropist Russell Simmons establishes greenROKS Ventures (http://greenrocks.com/), a new company that will develop and produce youth-centric entertainment properties and multi-media platforms, beginning in spring 2013 with the launch of the first in a […]

Cynopsis: Kids!12.05.12 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, December 5, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing. Netflix inks a multiyear premium pay TV window license deal with The Walt Disney Studio for the US  making Netflix the exclusive US subscription TV services for first-run live-action and animated movies from Disney, Walt Disney Animation […]

Cynopsis: Kids!12.04.12 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, December 4, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing. New Zealand’s Pukeko Pictures (The WotWots, Jane and the Dragon) and China-based Grand Entertainment team to collaborate on the new 3D animated/puppet preschool TV series, Apple Dog’s Adventure (200×10). The series has already be pre-sold to Kaku […]

Cynopsis: Kids!12.03.12 Good morning. It’s Monday, December 3, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing. Just as iCarly wraps its final season, Nickelodeon announces it has officially picked up creator/executive producer Dan Schneider‘s (iCarly, Victorious, Drake & Josh, Zoey 101) newest series live-action comedy Sam & Cat (20×30). A combo spin-off of […]

Cynopsis: Kids!11.30.12 Good morning. It’s Friday, November 30, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing. Walt Disney Animation Studios taps writer/director Jennifer Lee – she was one of the screenwriters on the studio’s Wreck-It-Ralph – to join already named director Chris Buck, as director on its new animated feature film Frozen, which […]

Cynopsis: Kids!11.29.12 Good morning. It’s Thursday, November 29, 2012, and this is your first early morning briefing. Mythbusters kids – well sort of – as Discovery Communications launches a new national ad campaign portraying younger versions of Mythbusters co-hosts, Kari Byron, Grant Imahara and Tori Belleci, to promote its Discovery Kids (www.discoverykids.com) brand. […]