A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM NICKELODEON
Nickelodeon Is the Leader
It’s the fastest-growing community in America! Nicktropolis, our one-of-a-
kind virtual entertainment community for kids, registered 1 million new
users in its first 30 days and 40.3M total gameplays since 1/30.*
It’s Just One Reason We’ve Remained #1 for 12 Straight Years.**
*Source: All Omniture.
**Source: NMR, NHI (2Q’95 thru 1Q’07 td-(01/01/07-02/11/07, by quarter) for K2-11, based on NAT% and imp across
all comp cable nets, total prog day. Live Feed. Qual avail upon request. © 2007 Viacom.
Cynopsis: Kids!
3/26/07
Good morning. It’s Monday, March 26, 2007 and this is your first early morning kids briefing.
A sigh of relief following the to do as young actress Emma Watson, as you might have expected, has agreed to reprise her role as Hermione Granger, along with her fellow actors Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint who will also return as Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, respectively, for the final two Warner Bros. movie adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter book series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Price and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Watson, who had been rumored to have been considering opting out of the final two pictures and only recently inked her deal, explained, “I could never let Hermione go–she is my hero! I love her too much and love what playing her has meant to me. I am excited and honored to be finishing what I started and playing her in all seven of the films.” Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth movie in the series, is slated for release in the US on July 13, 2007.
Revving up the Mach 5 as Speed Racer will be actor Emile Hirsch. Slated for release on May 9, 2008, Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures’ live-action movie adaptation of Speed Racer is being written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski with Joel Silver producing under his company Silver Pictures. The live action Speed Racer movie is based on the classic anime series created by Tatsuo Yoshida. That is all great and everything, but who will play Speed’s archrival Racer X?
Reports abound online that Hugo Weaving has been set to provide the voice of Megatron in the Transformers movie. Even if fans aren’t thrilled with the choice of Weaving over Frank Walker, who had provided the evil Megatron’s voice in the animated version, Weaving does have quite a great voice. Weaving is best known as Agent Smith from The Matrix movies, and his voice work has included the Lord of the Rings trilogy (Elrond) and V For Vendetta (V).
MORE KIDS STUFF
The newest movie trailer for Disney/Pixar’s movie Ratatouille is up and running and can be found at http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/ratatouille/. Directed by Brad Bird with Jan Pinkava serving as co-director, Ratatouille is will be released this June 29, 2007. The voice cast for Ratatouille features: Patton Oswalt; Brian Dennehy; Brad Garrett; Janeane Garofalo; Ian Holm; and Peter O’Toole.
MARKETING/LICENSING
Batfink is headed for DVD this June 2007, under a multiplatform video license pact between Foothill Entertainment, Inc. and Shout! Factory. Created by the legendary Hal Seeger Productions, this is the first time that all 100 x :05 Batfink episodes will be released on DVD in US and Canada. Similarly, Seeger Production’s animated series Milton the Monster was released this month on DVD. Batfink, a personal favorite of mine, debuted in US syndication in September 1967, and currently airs in the US on Boomerang and in the UK on BBC as well as other countries worldwide. Seeger’s first animated cartoon TV series, Milton the Monster bowed on ABC in 1965
In other 1960s and 70s popular animated series news, Pink Panther: The Ant & The Aardvark Collection Volume 5 is set to drop on DVD April 3, 2007. The release includes all 17 original episodes of the series. Created and produced by DePatie-Freleng, the studio created by Friz Freleng and David Hudson DePatie, first aired in 1969.
WizKids Inc., a subsidiary of Topps, in conjunction with Diamond Comic Distributors and Alliance Game Distributors is launching a sample pack marketing campaign for its upcoming Star Wars PocketModel trading card game. The promotion, will appear on sites including CartoonNetwork.com, was designed to drive consumers into their hobby retail stores by offering them coupons redeemable for free Star Wars PocketModel product samples. Sample packs contain three PocketModels (one X-wing and two TIE Fighters), two playing cards and a marketing insert. The Star Wars PocketModel TCG is slated to release at retail in June 2007.
STONE SOUP
Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13; March 23-25 2931, 2007:
TMNT (Warner Bros.) PG Opening Weekend $25.5m
Wild Hogs (Buena Vista) PG-13 $14.4m-4 wk total $123.8m
The Last Mimzy (New Line) PG Opening Weekend $10.2m
Premonition (Sony/Columbia) PG-13 $10.1m-2 wk total $32.2m
Pride (Lionsgate) PG Opening Weekend $4.0m
Bridge to Terabithia (Buena Vista) PG $2.3m-6 wk total $78.9m
Ghost Rider (Sony/Columbia) PG-13 $1.7m-6 wk total $113.2m
Amazing Grace (IDP) PG $1.5m-5 wk total $16.8m
Norbit (Paramount (DreamWorks)) PG-13 $1.0m-7 wk total $94.1m
Music and Lyrics (Warner Bros.) PG-13 $920,000-6 wk total $49.2m
Source: Box Office Mojo
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Chronicle Books has tapped Bill Boedeker as Publishing Director of its kid’s publishing group. He steps into this newly created position beginning April 2007. Boedeker joins Chronicle from Little, brown Books for Young Readers where he most recently served as VP/Marketing and Associate Publisher
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Thursday, March 22, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1002; K6-11 405; TWEENS 9-14 289
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 637; K6-11 391; TWEENS 9-14 334
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 563; K6-11 350; TWEENS 9-14 226
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 175; K6-11 85; TWEENS 9-14 37
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday’s trivia question: What two prehistoric “dumb dumbs” was the little guy from planet Zetox assigned to look after? FRED & BARNEY/THE FLINSTONES Kudos to: Michael Liebowitz-Grey Advertising/NY; Mike Sheridan-Granada USA/NY; Susan Schneider-CaptionMax/NY; Cassel Kroll-The Lexicomm Group/NY; Tom Boyd-WGN/Chicago; Izzy Neis-Star Farm Productions/Chicago; Jeff Holder-FlyOver Projects/LA; Josh Fisher-Brandissimo!/LA; David Korduner-DGA/LA; Pat Brady-CESD Talent/LA; Lee Williams-Boomstone Animation Inc./Ottawa; Claire Wilmut-Boomstone Animation Inc./Ottawa; Jodi Brown-Family Channel/Toronto
Today’s Trivia Question: Even though Joanie dated and married Chachi, what was the name of Joanie’s real first date? ( 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 Cynopsis: Kids!
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