Good morning. It’s Monday, November 22, 2010, and this is your first early morning Kids briefing.

Warner Bros. stirred the cauldron again with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  Part 1, the seventh title in the franchise, on Friday, November 19, which earned an estimated weekend worldwide box office total of $330.1 million.  In the US, the movie set new Harry Potter movie franchise records, earning the largest opening with $61 million on Friday, of which $24 million from the midnight screenings, and the biggest opening weekend for a Potter movie with an estimated $125.1 million from 4,125 locations.  The weekend box office tally puts Deathly Hallows Part 1 as the sixth biggest movie opening weekend behind The Dark Knight (7/18/2008), Spider-Man 3 (5/4/2007), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (11/20/2009), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (7/7/2006), and Iron Man 2 (5/7/2010), per Box Office Mojo.  Will Deathly Hallows Part 1 become the biggest grossing movie of 2010? Time will tell, domestically for 2010 Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 leads the way with $415 million.  Internationally, Deathly Hallows Part 1 took in $250 million in box office receipts setting records in its opening weekend.  In the UK the movie broke through several records including to become the biggest three day opening weekend with an estimated total of US$28 million, as well as earning the largest single day opening, Friday (US$9.5 million), and biggest Saturday (US$10.6 million).  Meanwhile, the movie also set franchise highs for the opening weekend in Australia with $25 million and in Russia with $12 million.  Additionally, in movie set new Imax records, earning $12.4 million in 239 locations in North America and $4.2 million on 101 screens internationally, for a worldwide Imax total box office take of $16.6 million from 340 screens.

MORE KIDS STUFF

MTV Networks International (MTVNI) and MBC Group, a pan-Arab, free-to-air satellite broadcasting company, ink an exclusive multi-platform deal (TV, digital media and consumer products rights) that will see a Nickelodeon-branded block, Nickelodeon on 3, air weekday afternoons on MBC3.  The block, which will be localized in Arabic, will at launch include series such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Fanboy and Chum Chum and My Life as a Teenage Robot.  The block will be supported online with a Nickelodeon microsite, which will also offer full-length episodes, games among other things.  A second block featuring Nickelodeon’s preschool programming will launch on MBC 3 in January 2011.  Under the deal, MTVNI also grants MBC Group the rights to develop consumer products based on Nickelodeon’s properties, Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Go, Diego, Go! for the Middle East.  Products based on the properties across categories including furnishings, stationery, apparel, toys, publishing, personal care and fashion accessories are slated to begin rolling out from early 2011.

Cartoon Network will not pick up a second season of its hour-long live action series Unnatural Histories, a network spokesperson confirms, which is produced by Warner Horizon Television.  The network has several live action series including Destroy Build Destroy, Dude, What Would Happen, and Tower Prep (also a 60 minute series). 

The Hub invites viewers to feast on a marathon of the CGI animated series The Twisted Whiskers Show on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 25, 1-7p.  Twisted Whiskers is abased on characters created by American Greetings Properties (AGP), and produced AGP with co-producers by DQ Entertainment and Moonscoop.

CBeebies (UK) will feature a holiday special and premiers of two new series.  The animated short film The Snowman (1982), based on the classic story by Raymond Briggs, will air on the network on Friday, December 24 at 12:20p and at 5:35p.  Debuting on CBeebies this December 6 are two new series: Nina and the Neurons Go Inventing  a new science-centric show debuts at 8:35a.  Each episode of the series, which will air weekdays at that time, begins with a kid asking a question about how an everyday object (e.g. bike, vacuum cleaner) works with the rest of the episode focusing on the answers; Let’s Celebrate premieres with a double episode.  The series looks at the various stories and customs behind festivals celebrated by different faiths as it visits kids and their families in different UK community each episode.  Let’s Celebrate will take up its regular weekday time slot from December 20 at 11:10a.  Festivals featured in the series include, Vaisakhi, Eid-ul-Fitr, Holi, Wesak, Purim, Diwali, Easter, St Patrick’s Day, St David’s Day, St George’s Day, St Andrew’s Day and Norouz.

MARKETING/LICENSING

Random House Children’s Books (RHCB) is to publish a Mortal Kiss book in the UK, based on the interactive virtual story the publisher created with Stardoll ( www.stardoll.com/en/mortalkiss ), the teen-targeted virtual social networking platform.  Both parties say the decision to publish a physical book is a direct result of the popularity and positive response to the story with Stardoll users.  Mortal Kiss was serialized worldwide via Stardoll over eight weeks leading up to Halloween.  Bantam Books, a Random House imprint, will publish the book on January 6, 2011.  Stardoll reports that its Mortal Kiss pages have received 13.9+ million page views, with the campaign page receiving 3.8+ million.  The Mortal Kiss Stardoll fan club has 51,788 members, versus 33,347 for the Harry Potter club.

TurnOut Ventures (TOV) appoints Click Licensing as the exclusive licensing agent for its Tuzki ( www.clubtuzki.com ) property, the popular internet and IM rabbit philosopher emoticon character, across great China, which includes China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.  Click will manage all Tuzki product and promotional licensing, as well as premium and publishing development on behalf of TurnOut Ventures.  Click is already exploring opportunities to create Tuzki branded products across categories including consumer electronics, apparel, accessories, sporting goods, home furnishings, gifts and novelties.

Oceanhouse Media releases Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer digital book as a universal app ($2.99) for the iPhone/iPad/iTouch.  The digital Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer book includes background music and audio, enlarged artwork for each scene in the story, as well as audio clips from classic holiday TV special.

STONE SOUP

Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13; November 19-21, 2010:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.) PG-13 Opening Weekend $125.1m
Megamind (Paramount (DreamWorks)) PG                                   $16.2m-3 wk total $109.5m
Unstoppable (Fox) PG-13                                                            $13.1m-2 wk total $42.0m
The Next Three Days (Lionsgate) PG-13                                       Opening Weekend $6.8m
Morning Glory (Paramount) PG-13                                               $5.2m-2 wk total $19.9m
Skyline (Universal) PG-13                                                           $3.4m-2 wk total $17.6m
Red (Summit Entertainment) PG-13                                             $2.5m-6 wk total $83.6m
Fair Game (2010) (Summit Entertainment) PG-13                         $1.5m-3 wk total $3.7m
Secretariat (Buena Vista) PG                                                       $962,000-7 wk total $56.4m
The Social Network (Sony/Columbia) PG-13                                  $925,000-8 wk total $89.2m
Source: Rentrak ( www.rentrak.com )

Hit Entertainment‘s Angelina Ballerina Stars of Tomorrow program and the Dizzy Feet Foundation introduce a public service campaign designed to encourage kid’s awareness and interest in dance.  The first two public service announcements (30 seconds each) feature CG animated Angelina Ballerina interacting with founding members of Dizzy Feet including executive producer Nigel Lythgoe (So You Think You Can Dance, American Idol), director/producer Adam Shankman, and Carrie Ann Inaba (dancing with the Stars judge).  The PSAs will be part of online and social media campaigns well as running on kid-targeted sites.  In 2011, the PSAs will be featured on DVDs of Hit entertainment properties, including Angelina Ballerina, Thomas & Friends, Barney, and Bob the Builder. The Angelina Ballerina Stars of Tomorrow Program and Dizzy Feet Foundation have also awarded scholarships at the launch event.

RATINGS

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Thursday, November 18, 2010, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:         K2-11 1201; K6-11 508; TWEENS 9-14 356
DISNEY CHANNEL:     K2-11   846; K6-11 467; TWEENS 9-14 350
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11   436; K6-11 280; TWEENS 9-14 193
DISNEY XD:               K2-11   128; K6-11   95; TWEENS 9-14   77
NICKTOONS:              K2-11     92; K6-11   69; TWEENS 9-14   65
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia:   What is the name of Little Bill’s hamster?  ELEPHANT  Kudos to: Marcy Pritchard-Nickelodeon/NY; Brendan Bishopp-The Beacon Media Group/Mahwah; Kelly Ann Fentress-Nickelodeon/NY; Tom Mason-MainBrain Prods/Simi Valley; Jessica Sheeley-BBC Worldwide/North Hollywood

Today’s Trivia Question:  Who is it who can “count by twos and tie his shoes, zip zippers and button buttons”?   (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
11.22.10

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