Cynopsis: Kids!
03/09/09
Good morning. It’s Monday, March 9, 2009, and this is your first early morning Kids briefing.
What was a rumor appears to be true Dakota Fanning (15) will get her fangs on to star in Summit Entertainment‘s movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the sequel to its Twilight film, per People.com. Fanning will take on the role of Jane, a particularly evil vampire in the guise of a sweet young thing who is a member of the Volturi sect of vampires. Principle photography for New Moon is scheduled to begin in Vancouver later this month, with the release date close behind in November 20, 2009. New Moon is shooting back-to-back with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (June 30, 2010), the third movie in the saga that is based on Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight books.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Fox is working on a new feature film based on Marmaduke, the Great Dane from the eponymous comic strip drawn by Brad Anderson that has run since 1954, per The Hollywood Reporter. Director Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon) is developing the movie for the studio. No word on if the movie will be live-action, animated or a mix of the two. Marmaduke has appeared in animated form in episodes of the animated series Heathcliff and Garfield and Friends. United Features Syndicate syndicates the Marmaduke comic strip.
MORE KIDS STUFF
PBS Kids will host Hurray for Heroes, a two-hour Super Why special on Memorial Day. The stunt will include four episodes of Super Why, two of which are premiere episodes.
Pepper’s Ghost Productions, the group behind the preschool animated series Tiny Planets (65×5), introduces My Tiny Planets, a new virtual world and multiplayer space game, with a range of activities, for kids/tweens 6-14. Designed to underline exploration, problem solving and discovery, My Tiny Planets features Bing and Bong, the alien characters from the Tiny Planets series, as guides through virtual world. My Tiny Planets offers a free version as well as a subscription version, which unlocks a range of features.
Nickelodeon Australia launches The Big Green Help, Nickelodeon’s multiplatform pro-social campaign that encourages kids to participate in earth friendly and energy saving daily activities. As part of The Big Green Help and its ongoing environment-centric efforts Nickelodeon Australia joins World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Earth Hour 2009. Nickelodeon will feature an Earth Hour mini-site encouraging kids/families to sign up for Earth Hour 2009 and help save the planet by turning off the lights from 8.30-9.30p on Saturday March 28. Additionally, an Earth Hour PSA featuring Nick host Maude Garrett will run on both Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. channels. Nickelodeon’s The Big Green Help project is now 19 countries and in seven different languages.
MARKETING/LICENSING
Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) appoints Global Brands Group (GBG) as its exclusive consumer products licensing agent for the in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Under the deal, GBG will establish the licensing business for WBCP’s brands, including Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Harry Potter, Batman, Superman, and Scooby-Doo, among others. Based in Singapore, GBG has a offices in 14 cities around the world including London, Dubai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney, Switzerland, Buenos Aires and Johannesburg.
Majesco Entertainment inks a marketing partnership with Barbara’s Bakery, an organic bakery that is a Weetabix North America company, to support the release of Puffins: Island Adventure for Nintendo DS, which releases April 18, 2009. Under the deal content featuring Barbara’s Bakery’s Puffins and Wild Puffs cereals will be integrated into the game as Puffin Tips. Additionally, Barbara’s Bakery is launches an instant win contest in April to coincide with the launch of the video game.
Tomy Europe names Halsall International as its UK distributor, per Toy News Magazine. The agreement begins this month and operates alongside Tomy’s existing distribution network moving into new routes of distribution. The deal includes Tomy’s products aimed at babies, parents and kids based on BBC, Hit Entertainment and Disney properties, products from Tomy’s distribution partners including K’Nex and Pilot, as well as those from Gacha International, the vending/gift company recently acquired by Tomy Europe.
Score! Educational Centers launches The Wumbler Patch‘s Make The World A Better Place With Me kid’s enrichment program into its curriculum beginning March 14. A division of Kaplan, Inc., Score offers educational support for kids in grades K-9.
STONE SOUP
Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13; March 6-8, 2009:
Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail (Lionsgate) PG-13 $8.8m-3 wk total $76.5m
Taken (Fox) PG-13 $7.5m-6 wk total $118.0m
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Sony / Columbia) PG $4.2m-8 wk total $133.6m
He’s Just Not That Into You (Warner Bros. (New Line)) PG-13 $4.0m-5 wk total $84.6m
Coraline (Focus Features) PG $3.3m-5 wk total $65.7m
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Buena Vista) PG $3.1m-4 wk total $38.4m
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (Buena Vista) G $2.8m-2 wk total $16.8m
Fired Up (Sony / Screen Gems) PG-13 $2.6m-3 wk total $13.4m
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Fox) PG-13 $1.4m-2 wk total $7.1m
The Pink Panther 2 (Sony / Columbia) PG $1.3m-5 wk total $34.6m
Source: Rentrak (www.rentrak.com )
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EXECUTIVE MOVES
Kidrobot names Rob Felton as VP/Marketing. Effective. Based at the Kidrobot’s headquarters in NYC, Felton will report to Diego Marchioni, CEO. Marchioni became CEO earlier this year. Felton was previously Associate Publisher, License! Global. Prior to that he served as VP/Associate Publisher, Wizard Entertainment Group/Wizard Conventions, and earlier as Editor-in-Chief of The Toy Book.
RATINGS
Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Kids 2-11 for the week of 2/23-3/1/2009 , 6a-6a:
K2-11 Total Delivery (000)
NICK: SpongeBob SquarePants (2/28; 9:30a) 2442
NICK: SpongeBob SquarePants (2/28; 9a) 2375
NICK: iCarly (2/23; 6p) 2352
NICK: SpongeBob SquarePants (2/28; 12p) 2322
NICK: SpongeBob SquarePants (2/23; 5:30p) 2287
DSNY*: Sonny with a Chance (3/1; 8p) 2250
NICK: SpongeBob SquarePants (2/27; 4:30p) 2223
NICK: SpongeBob SquarePants (2/28; 12:30p) 2215
DSNY*: Hannah Montana (3/1; 7:30p) 2178
NICK: SpongeBob SquarePants (3/1; 12p) 2177
Source: Disney from Nielsen Media Research Data
*Disney Channel is not an ad supported cable network, unlike the others in this listing.
Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Kids 6-11 for the week of 2/23-3/1/2009 , 6a-6a:
K6-11 Total Delivery (000)
DSNY*: Sonny with a Chance (3/1; 8p) 1834
DSNY*: Hannah Montana (3/1; 7:30p) 1782
DSNY*: Wizards of Waverly Place (3/1; 8:30p) 1688
NICK: SpongeBob SquarePants (2/28; 9a) 1590
NICK: SpongeBob SquarePants (2/28; 9:30a) 1571
NICK: iCarly (2/23; 6p) 1484
NICK: iCarly (2/28; 8p) 1459
NICK: iCarly (2/23; 6:30p) 1403
FOX: American Idol (2/25; 8-10p) 1375
DSNY*: Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2/23; 7p) 1374
Source: Disney from Nielsen Media Research Data
*Disney Channel is not an ad supported cable network, unlike the others in this listing.
Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Tweens 9-14 for the week of 2/23-3/1/2009 , 6a-6a:
Tweens 9-14 Total Delivery (000)
DSNY*: Sonny with a Chance (3/1; 8p) 1676
DSNY*: Wizards of Waverly Place (3/1; 8:30p) 1671
FOX: American Idol (2/25; 8-10p) 1577
DSNY*: Hannah Montana (3/1; 7:30p) 1507
FOX: American Idol (2/26; 8-9p) 1319
NICK: iCarly (2/28; 1p) 1169
NICK: iCarly (2/23; 6:30p) 1132
NICK: iCarly (2/28; 8p) 1087
NICK: iCarly (2/25; 6:30p) 1063
NICK: iCarly (2/23; 6p) 1058
Source: Disney from Nielsen Media Research Data
*Disney Channel is not an ad supported cable network, unlike the others in this listing.
Top 10 Combined Broadcast/Basic Cable shows among Teens 12-17 for the week of 2/23-3/1/2009 , 6a-6a:
Teens 12-17 Total Delivery (000)
FOX: American Idol (2/25; 8-10p) 1348
FAM: Secret Life of the American Teen (2/23; 8-9p) 1300
FOX: American Idol (2/26; 8-9p) 1265
DSNY*: Wizards of Waverly Place (3/1; 8:30p) 985
DSNY*: Sonny with a Chance (3/1; 8p) 851
DSNY*: Hannah Montana (3/1; 7:30p) 766
NICK: iCarly (2/28; 1p) 724
NICK: iCarly (2/23; 6:30p) 685
NICK: SpongeBob SquarePants (3/1; 12p) 649
NICK: Drake & Josh (2/23; 7:30p) 642
Source: Disney from Nielsen Media Research Data
*Disney Channel is not an ad supported cable network, unlike the others in this listing.
**Abbreviation for Adult Swim, which airs on Cartoon Network
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Thursday, March 5, 2009, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1025; K6-11 445; TWEENS 9-14 320
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 746; K6-11 439; TWEENS 9-14 352
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 490; K6-11 304; TWEENS 9-14 239
DISNEY XD: K2-11 145; K6-11 86; TWEENS 9-14 72
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: My name is Gidget. I’m a dog. But you know me as a talking TV commercial icon always in search of something I considered to be perfection – who am I? THE TACO BELL DOG – Yo Quiero Taco Bell! Kudos to: Susan Fields-Marvel Entertainment, Inc./NY; Sara Zeglin-National Geographic Digital Media — Kids/Washington DC; Anneka Turner-Travel Channel Media/New York; Bob Friedland -Toys”R”Us, Inc./NY; Samantha Voisin-MediaVest Worldwide/Los Angeles
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Later — Gwen
Gwen Billings for Cynopsis Kids!
03.09.09
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