Cynopsis: Kids!
08/16/10
Good morning. It’s Monday, August 16, 2010, and this is your first early morning Kids briefing.
Disney/Pixar‘s Toy Story 3 becomes the highest grossing animated movie ever earning a total of $920 million at the box office, taking over the top spot from DreamWorks Shrek 2 (May 2004), which, per Box Office Mojo, had held the lead with $919.8 million. Directed by Lee Unkrich, Toy Story 3, a 3D movie, also stepped over the $400 million line domestically this weekend, Disney’s second movie to do so; the first was Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest/July 2006. The movie is also the studios 4th biggest worldwide grossing movie ever following behind Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (July 2003), Dead Man’s Chest, and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (March 2010). Toy Story 3 opened domestically on June 18, earning Disney/Pixar’s its highest grossing weekend with $109 million and the biggest June movie opening ever. Worth noting, as many online have, is that these numbers and records don’t take into account inflation for ticket prices or the price for individual 3D tickets, which would put Toy Story 3 further down on the various lists. All of that said though, Toy Story 3 is a strong and extremely well received movie by critics and audiences alike. Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release Toy Story 3 on Blu-ray and DVD on November 2, 2010.
MORE KIDS STUFF
This fall PBS Kids will launch the new animated series The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That!, on Labor Day, Monday, September 6, 2010 (check local listings). Featuring Martin Short as The Cat in the Hat, the animated series is from Random House Children’s Entertainment, in association with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, and producers Portfolio Entertainment and Collingwood O’Hare Productions. Additionally, PBS Kids Go! will debut the new animal/nature-centric animated series Wild Kratts (40×30) on January 3, 2011 (check local listings). Wild Kratts is a co-production of 9 Story Entertainment and The Kratt Brothers Company.
Viper Comics inks a deal to develop and release comic books based on the kid-targeted properties Inspector Gadget and Johnny Test. Graphic novel titles based on both Inspector Gadget and Johnny Test are set for release in 2011.
Bluewater Productions targets Gleeks with the newest of its Fame bio comic series, Fame: The Cast of Glee slated for release November 2010. The comic book (32 pages) looks at the lives of each of the actors on the Fox series, including Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch, Cory Monteith and Chris Colfer, and how they made their way to the show. Fame: The Cast of Glee is written by Cameron Cooke and Patrick McCormack with art by Ben Bradi.
Disney Online Studios launches the new kid-targeted virtual world Disney-Pixar World of Cars Online ( www.worldofcars.com ). Based on Disney/Pixar’s animated Cars movie, the new online world features many of the voiceover cast members from the Cars movie and TV series including Cheech Marin and Jennifer Lewis, as Ramone and Flo respectively. World of Cars Online is a free-to-play browser-based game with additional features available via a sponsorship subscription membership (monthly/$5.95). The virtual world also offers a parents section, where adults can learn about the game and manage their kid’s community settings.
BBC Magazine plans to launch the preschool-aimed ZingZillas Magazine this September in the UK. Based on the CBeebies TV series, the three-weekly magazine title is designed to encourage young kids to make their own music and learn about various music style and instruments though activities that introduce various sounds. The Magazine will also feature cover-mounted gifts based on making sounds, role-play and performance (e.g. percussion kit, trumpet, harmonica and inflatable guitar, and stationery and stickers).
MARKETING/LICENSING
Activision Publishing will release its newest Tony Hawk video game, Tony Hawk: Shred ( www.shredgame.com ) this holiday season. The new game, which features an arcade style look and feel, lets younger players get the feel of skateboarding and snowboarding using the motion-sensing board feet controller. Shred features a range of pro skate and snowboarders, including Hawk, Lyn-z Adams Hawkins, Corey Duffel, Sean Malto, David Gonzalez, Geoff Rowley, Stevie Williams and Chas Ortiz, and snowboarders Travis Rice, Louie Vito and Torah Bright. Players will also have access to Mii versions of the athletes in the Wii game, and can import their own Mii and Avatar characters in the Wii and Xbox 360 versions of the games. The game was developed for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 by Robomodo, and for Wii by Buzz Monkey.
Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer comes to the US in September for the Artemis Rocks! Tour, which will feature Colfer speaking on stage as well as interviewing his character Artemis Fowl, actually an actor playing Fowl, as well as original music and music videos based on the property, per Publishers Weekly. The Artemis Rocks! tour supports the release of his newest title, Artemis Fowl 7: The Atlantis Complex published here this month by Hyperion. Two of the Artemis Fowl-centric songs and a music video, from singer/musician Josh Fix and feature the actor who will be on the tour, as well as tour information can be found at ArtemisFowl.com ( www.artemisfowl.com ). The music video includes visuals from the Artemis Fowl graphic novel. The tour officially begins in NYC on September 14, and will then make its way across the country ending with a show in San Francisco on September 26. Hyperion and Colfer plan to offer coverage of the tour via video blogs and a mobile effort.
Mind Candy, developer/publisher of the online game Moshi Monsters ( www.moshimonsters.com ), is set to launch Moshi Bandz ( www.moshibandz.com ), a line of wristbands for kids in the UK this October. The hundreds of colorful wristbands will be available in Moshi Monsters shapes, 10 to a pack.
Fisher-Price celebrates the 10th anniversary of Dora the Explorer with the debut of its new We Did It! Dora doll. The new version of the singing and dancing Dora doll also moves her arms, swings her hair and swivels her body to the music with four different interactive modes: Teach-Me featuring Dora teaching kids the We Did It! dance; We Did It! Dance; Freeze Dance; and Say It Two Ways a bilingual dance game. Fisher-Price released the initial We Did It! Dora Doll in 2002.
STONE SOUP
Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13; August 13-15, 2010:
Eat Pray Love (Sony / Columbia) PG-13 Opening Weekend $23.7m
The Other Guys (Sony / Columbia) PG-13 $18.0m-2 wk total $70.5m
Inception (Warner Bros.) PG-13 $11.4m-5 wk total $248.6m
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Universal) PG-13 Opening Weekend $10.5m
Despicable Me (Universal) PG $6.8m-6 wk total $222.0m
Step Up 3-D (Buena Vista) PG-13 $6.6m-2 wk total $29.6m
Salt (Sony/Columbia) PG-13 $6.4m-4 wk total $103.6m
Dinner for Schmucks (Paramount (DreamWorks)) PG-13 $6.3m-3 wk total $58.8m
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner Bros.) PG $4.1m-3 wk total $35.1m
Toy Story 3 (Buena Vista) G $2.2m-9 wk total $400.8m
Source: Rentrak ( www.rentrak.com )
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation names James Reid-Anderson as its Chairman, President and CEO. Reid-Anderson was previously Chairman, President and CEO, Dade Behring Holdings and after its acquisition in 2007 by Siemens AG he went on to serve as CEO, Siemens Healthcare Sector and as a member of Siemens Managing Board. Al Weber, who was serving as interim CEO the last three months will take on the role of COO. Usman Nabi Executive Chairman of the Board of Six Flags and Sr. Partner at H Partners, will continue to serve ad Director and a member of the Executive Committee.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia: Who receives his assignments from his boss on self-destructing paper? INSPECTOR GADGET Kudos to: Maria Lisa Nerahoo/Nickelodeon/NY; Scott Oldeman/Boston; Bonnie Rosen-MTV Networks/NY; Brooke L/Miami; Courtney MacGregor/South Bay; Sara Hilgendorf-William Morris Endeavor Ent/LA; Matthew Bergeron-Disney Channels Worldwide/Burbank; Tina San Lucas-CPLG USA/Burbank
Today’s Trivia Question: This buzzing cartoon character on an afternoon children’s program was created to help children learn the differences between right and wrong. (Email [email protected] 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 Billings for Cynopsis Kids!
gwen @cynopsis.com
08.16.10
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