Cyn opsis: Kids!
08/18/06
Good morning. It’s Friday, August 18, 2006 and this is your first early morning Kids! briefing.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has appointed TBWAChiatDay LA as its ad agency of record for the 79th Annual Academy Awards telecast, which will air February 25, 2007 on ABC. This marks the first time that the Academy has hired an agency to produce an integrated promotional campaign for the Oscar telecast.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Laboratoon and the Steinbranding Company are working together to develop Ed Round, a new animated TV series. Currently in the planning stages, Ed Round will be targeted to kids and will focus on visual language. Laboratoon created Doki, the Discovery Kids mascot.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Columbia Records/Sony Music Soundtrax will release Everyone’s Hero – Music From The Motion Picture, IDT Entertainment’s first CG animated comedy feature film, on September 12, 2006 just days ahead of the release of the movie on September 15. The original soundtrack features new recordings from John Ondrasik of Five For Fighting, Chris Botti featuring Lyle Lovett, Brooks & Dunn, Lonestar, Raven-Symone, John Debney featuring vocals by Paris Bennett, among others. The movie is about a boy named Yankee Irving who travels across the US on a quest to restore his family’s honor and the people he meets along the way. The cast features the voices of: Jake T. Austin as Yankee Irving, the late Dana Reeve (also an executive producer of the movie) as Yankee’s mom, Rob Reiner and Whoopi Goldberg among other notables. Christopher Reeve was the original director and executive producer of Everyone’s Hero. Following Reeve’s passing the movie was completed by Co-directors Colin Brady and Daniel St. Pierre. Everyone’s Hero is being distributed by Fox.
MARKETING/LICENSING
Planetwide Games, Inc., a provider of online video games and software applications, has released the Barnyard Comic Book Creator Interactive Entertainment Software, which, not surprisingly, is based on the Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies Barnyard. The Comic Book Creator allows kids to create Barnyard comics and comic books using scenes, characters, select lines and graphics from the movie and dragging and dropping images. The final projects can then be posted to a blog, emailed to friends or printed.
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Jay Rasulo, Chairman, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts yesterday announced the promotions of Meg Gilbert Crofton and Jim Lewis. In their new roles both Crofton and Lewis will report to Al Weiss, President/Worldwide Operations, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
- Crofton has been upped to President/Disney World Resorts. Crofton, a 27-year Disney veteran, has held executive roles including in worldwide Human Resources, Operations and Sales. Most recently she served as EVP/Human Resources, Disney Parks and Resorts.
- Lewis has been promoted to President/Disney Vacation Club. Most recently Lewis had been SVP/GM, Disney Vacation Club. Over the course of his 10 years with the company Lewis has served as SVP/Multi Market Business Development and Public Affairs, Walt Disney World Resort, and led the Operations Finance team at Walt Disney World. Prior to Disney, Lewis toiled for PepsiCo.
Marvin Gleicher has been appointed as VP/DVD Content Acquisitions, Navarre Corporation. Gleicher will be responsible for acquiring and marketing DVD entertainment content for Navarre’s distribution arm. He will report to Bob Freese, VP/GM, Navarre Entertainment Media. Prior to joining Navarre, Gleicher founded the North America division of Manga Entertainment Inc., which specialized in the marketing of Japanese animation. When Manga Entertainment was acquired by IDT Entertainment in 2004, Gleicher continued to serve as President/Manga Entertainment. Previously, hew was President, Smash/Island Records.
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Wednesday, August 16, 2006, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1159; K6-11 642; TWEENS 9-14 479
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 927; K6-11 592; TWEENS 9-14 396
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 820; K6-11 524; TWEENS 9-14 438
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 147; K6-11 92; TWEENS 9-14 64
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Friday Fun Fact: Children grow faster in the spring.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: On the show Bob the Builder, what is the wall paper design in his house? HAMMERS AND SAWS, OF COURSE!!! Kudos to: Elizabeth Tollefson – HIT Entertainment.
Today’s Trivia Question: Who met regularly at the Regal Beagle? ( click here 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 Cynthia Turner’s Cynopsis Kids!
08.18.06
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