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Cynopsis: Kids!

12/04/06

Good morning. It’s Monday, December 4, 2006 and this is your first early morning Kids! briefing.

The Entertainment Software Association will recoup $182,000+ in legal fees from the State of Michigan, following a decision by a US District Court Judge. The Court found in favor of the ESA in its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the State’s proposed law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.  It was a big week for the ESA, with the Michigan win marking the third win of the week, and takes the total owed/paid to the video game industry for legal fees for similar cases to regulate video games to $1.5+ million; Illinois ($510,000); Washington state ($344,000); St. Louis, MO ($180,000); Indianapolis, IN ($318,000); and Michigan ($182,349).

Sony and game developer, Polyphony Digital, have ditched plans to release Gran Turismo HD for PlayStation 3. Instead the controversial title will be released for a limited time as a demo.  The hullabaloo over Gran Turismo HD began following Sony’s presentation of title and news/rumors that the game would not come with cars or anything, rather cars and tracks would need to be purchased independently.  The demo will be available as a free download in Japan beginning December 24, 2006, with no news of whether or not the demo will be offered anywhere else in the world.  The demo will have ten cars and a single track.  According to the statement on Polyphony Digital’s site, the developer is putting all of its energies on Gran Turismo 5, which is slated for release some time in 2008.

MORE KIDS STUFF

Cartoon Network UK has ordered a second cycle of Skatoony (13 x 30′), its animated game show, which features real kid contestants.  The series is hosted by two animated characters, Chudd Chudders and The Earl, and is produced in-house by Cartoon Network in London.  If you’re interested in becoming a contestants, check out www.cartoonnetwork.co.uk .

Jetix Latin America has picked up seasons three and four of the animated series Code Lyoko from Taffy Entertainment.  Seasons one and two are currently airing on TVN in Chile.  In a separate pact, Taffy has sold Fantastic Four to Cartoon Network Latin America and Chile’s TVN.  MoonScoop is currently in production on the fourth cycle of Code Lyoko for a total of 97 episodes of the series.

GameTap, a TBS Inc. broadband network, and Telltale, an interactive entertainment company, are releasing the second installment of the Sam & Max: Season 1 episodic video game series as well as a series of Sam & Max animated shorts on GameTap TV.  The new shorts Sam & Max were created using “machinima,” a filmmaking technique that employs the real-time 3D virtual environment of a video game. A new short will debut each Thursday, beginning last Thursday, leading up to the debut of each new full-length episode of the Sam & Max: Season 1 video game series, of which there will be a total of six.  The collection of Sam & Max shorts will bow on both the GameTap and Telltale websites four days after they are released to GameTap subscribers.  The Sam & Max full length Episode 2  Situation Comedy is set to premiere on December 21.  Just over two weeks later the episode will be available for purchase from Telltale ($8.95), as well as the full season ($34.95).  Sam & Max is not for kids.

Dynamic Forces is teaming up with Stan Lee to publish a line of Historical Retrospective Books.  The first two titles in the series will be editions of Stan Lee’s Guide to Writing Comics and Stan Lee’s Guide to Drawing Comics.  Published in full color the first title will be released in early 2007, and the second in mid/late 2007.  Lee wrote How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way with John Buscema in 1984.

PopCap Games, a casual game developer/publisher, has launched Bookworm Adventures, a word game that combines elements of various game genres including adventure and role-play games as well as animated characters.  In development for the last two years, Bookworm Adventures is designed for all ages.  A trial version of the game is available for download at http://www.popcap.com as well as other game sites including RealArcade.com, MSN’s Game Zone and Yahoo! Games.  The original Bookworm game debuted in 2002 for the web, PC, Mac, GameBoy and for in-flight entertainment on some airlines.

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MARKETING/LICENSING

Redbox Automated Retail, an automated DVD rental service, and McDonald’s USA have expanded their agreement to increase the number of DVD rental kiosks in McDonald’s restaurants nationwide.  The fast food restaurant chain began testing redbox’s automated DVD rental machines offering current movie titles in 2004 in Denver.  Currently there are redbox kiosks at 800+ McDonald’s restaurants in six markets: Baltimore, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City and St. Louis.  The redbox self-service rental stations will begin to appear in McDonald’s restaurants in select markets beginning in early 2007, offering DVD titles for $1 per night and can be returned to any redbox kiosk nationwide.  Each kiosk holds 500+ DVDs and will feature new titles every Tuesday.

Da na na na na na na na, Da na na na na na na na – Batman!  DC Comics, Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Mattel have partnered to produce a new line of Hot Wheels die-cast cars based on the Batmobile; the Batmobile featured in the 1966 Batman TV series that is.  Mattel expects its line of Hot Wheels Batmobile to be available beginning in 2007.  In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the TV series and car as well as the first time the classic Batmobile Mattel will release the Batmobile in various sizes: first as a 1:64th scale model for spring 2007; followed fall 2007 by another 1:64th model as well as both a 1:43rd and a 1:18th scale replicas.  Renowned designer of customized vehicles, George Barris, created the TV Batmobile.  Barris and his company were also involved in the building and/or accessorizing of celebrity autos including The Beverly Hillbillies, The Munsters, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Monkees, Mannix, Power Rangers (various), Knight Rider and Starsky and Hutch amongst others.

Scholastic will offer two of Seven Seas Entertainment’s original girl-targeted manga titles, Amazing Agent Luna and Destiny’s Hand, at its Scholastic Book Fairs beginning January 2007. Both manga series are penned by the team of Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, who have worked on a number of comic series including New X-Men: Academy X, New Mutants, and Adventures of Superman as well as for several TV series. Amazing Agent Luna is a five volume series that revolves around 15yr-old Luna, who is the ultimate secret agent, on the mission of her life  high school.`Destiny’s Hand is a three-part series about a young pirate girl who is bestowed with the helm of the ship by its dying captain, along with the task of leading the ship on a mission to find a lost treasure.

TOKYOPOP has inked a distribution partnership with MovieSeer Ltd., a Southeast Asian mobile company.  Under the agreement MovieSeer will distribute 60+ teen and young adult targeted TOKYOPOP properties on mobile networks across Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore.

STONE SOUP

Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13 – December 14
Happy Feet (Warner Bros.) PG                                      $17.0m-3 wk total $121.0m
Casino Royale (Sony / Columbia) PG-13                        $15.1m-3 wk total $115.9m
Deja Vu (Buena Vista) PG-13                                       $11.0m-2 wk total $44.1m
The Nativity Story (New Line) PG                                  Opening Weekend $8.0m
Deck the Halls (Fox) PG                                               $6.7m-2 wk total $25.0m
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (Buena Vista) G $5.0m-5 wk total $73.2m
Stranger Than Fiction (Sony / Columbia) PG-13             $3.4m-4 wk total $37.0m
Flushed Away (Paramount (DreamWorks)) PG                $2.3m-5 wk total $60.1m
The Fountain (Warner Bros.) PG-13                              $1.6m-2 wk total $8.1m
The Queen (Miramax) PG-13                                        $1.4m-10 wk total $23.1m
Source: Box Office Mojo

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Answer to Friday’s Trivia Question:  What show features both actor and lead singer of the real life band The Sacred Hearts?  JIM BELUSHI IN ACCORDING TO JIM    Kudos to: Hank Bordowitz-Bordowitz Media Werx/Suffern NY; Kimberly Keeley–Safety 4 Kids, LLC /Stamford, CT; David Stern-BARD Entertainment/NY; Ginger Sorvari Bucklin-Best Buy Co Inc/Minneapolis MN; Will Swift- Natural Talent/LA

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Later — Gwen
Gwen Billings for Cynopsis Kids!
12.04.06

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