A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM DIC ENTERTAINMENT
· New Series Include All-New “Care Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot™,” “Sushi Pack™” And “Dino Squad™”
· “Strawberry Shortcake™” To Make Network TV Debut
· Returning Series Include “Cake™” And “Horseland™”
contact DIC’s Dave Danowski at (212) 239-4437
· Also, check out DIC’s new online cartoon community www.KEWLStudio.com (Coming Soon) and tween-targeted music & fan magazine “KEWL” www.Kewlmag.com
Cynopsis: Kids!
7/26/07
Good morning. It’s Thursday, July 26, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing.
In a letter from the Walt Disney Company’s President and CEO Robert Iger to Democratic House Representative Edward Markey yesterday, Iger said the company will no longer portray smoking in its Disney branded movies. Disney is the first company to take such stand. The move comes two months after the Motion Picture Association of America introduced a new ratings system that takes into account the use of tobacco when rating movies. Specifically, Iger explained in the letter that the company will, “discourage depictions of cigarette smoking in Disney, Touchstone and Miramax Films…. In particular, we expect that depictions of cigarette smoking in future Disney branded films will be nonexistent.” Additionally, Disney plans to place anti-smoking public service announcements on all future DVDs release for all forthcoming movies that include smoking, as well as working with movie theater owners to run PSAs prior to movies featuring tobacco usage.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Later today at Comic-Con in San Diego Animation Collective and Canada’s Fatkat Studios will announce their US/Canadian joint venture to produce Three Delivery, a new 26×30′ action/comedy, animated series. Three Delivery is set in graphic comic book styled Chinatown and revolves around three teenage delivery kids who are also super heroes. Animation Collective will co-produce the series with Fatkat in association with Nicktoons Network, YTV and the BBC. Three Delivery is scheduled to premiere in early 2008 in the US and UK, and in September 2009 in Canada. Animation Collective will handle worldwide TV and consumer products sales. Additionally, Animation Collective is producing 11×2′ mobisodes for mobile phones and a online experience for the series, including a massive multi-player game.
BKN New Media is creating a new digital HD animation production facility, where it will produce TV series and movies, including its first project titled Stone Age. Slated to deliver in late 2008, Stone Age is the first of two 26×30′ HD animated series BKN plans to produce each year. Stone Age will also include an 80-minute movie. BKN will use the content created at its new facility to help to propel the company into the world of digital downloads.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Kids get a new social network community this week called WebbliWorld. Lucky for them this one is designed and developed by Aardman Animations along with digital studio Enable Interactive. Commissioned by WebbliWorld Ltd., the site features animated films, with new characters, and interactive games/activities, news, entertainment and competitions. WebbliWorld provides plenty of advertising tie-ins, including the opportunity to sponsor different sections of the site. To that end, WebbliWorld launches with two initial sponsors, Puffin Books and The World Wildlife Fund.
This fall Starz Entertainment will launch Starz Inside, a new series of original monthly specials that is hosted by film critic Richard Roeper. Starz Inside will focus on the history, people and trends and culture in the world of movies, and while the specials aren’t targeted to kids, but teens who find the specials will be interested in some of them. The series debuts September 24, at 9p with Fog city Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco, which will feature interviews with and a look at the work of director/producers from the Bay Area including George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood and Chris Columbus (e.g. Harry Potter, Home Alone, Night at the Museum). I know what you’re thinking, kids love The Godfather movies, but like I said these shows aren’t specifically for kids. Successive months will bring specials exploring the history of vampires in movies, video games turn into movies, and the world of anime.
MARKETING/LICENSING
Every Baby Co. has teamed with FAO Schwarz to launch a new line of educational toys for kids six-months-old and up. The toy line will be based on Every Baby’s eebee adventure DVD series and will include, a “rolling adventure” kit, a bowling set for babies, and a “baby games environment.” An eebee doll was included in the FAO Baby’s spring 2007 catalog. We can expect to see in-store events at FAO Schwarz, as well as a range of promotions such as eebee themed birthday parties.
STONE SOUP
The Weinstein Company and Dailymotion, the video sharing site, have kicked off The Ultimate Star Wars Fanboy (or Girl!) user generated video competition, in conjunction with the beginning of Comic-Con International in San Diego where the company is preview scenes of the upcoming Fanboys movie. The contest runs through August 31, 2007 details can be found at www.fanboycontest.com or http://fanboys.dailymotion.com . Slated for release on January 18, 2008, Fanboys follows the exploits of a group of young friends who travel across the US to break into Skywalker Ranch and see Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace before it is released.
JUST ‘CAUSE I LIKE IT
This week LeapFrog Enterprises launches its new Fly Fusion Pentop Computer, the second generation of its Fly Pentop Computer introduced two year ago. Designed for K10+, LeapFrog has made the new Fly Fusion less chunky and sleeker looking than its predecessor, as well as improving and/or adding several capabilities including: upgraded software allows for PC connectivity; tons of memory it comes with 64MB and is expandable to 128MB; on the fly (my bad joke not theirs) calculating ability; Spanish translator; a new MP3 player; music mixing abilities. I had the chance to play around with the Fly Fusion the coolest thing is that the pen can scan your hand written notes, written on the special paper of course, and then you can zap (via USB) them to the computer and store, index and search through the specific information, and the notes can be converted into a word document, emailed, and posted on blogs. The Fly Fusion will be available in stores from August along with a range of homework applications (e.g. algebra, essay writing), that later will also available for download from the new website. If there is a drawback … it’s there’s no Mac version yet.
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Sunday, July 22, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 1165; K6-11 803; TWEENS 9-14 620
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1031; K6-11 742; TWEENS 9-14 605
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 532; K6-11 358; TWEENS 9-14 222
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 153; K6-11 81; TWEENS 9-14 37
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Monday, July 23, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1526; K6-11 900; TWEENS 9-14 682
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 1357; K6-11 978; TWEENS 9-14 934
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 712; K6-11 498; TWEENS 9-14 336
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 280; K6-11 185; TWEENS 9-14 119
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Monday, July 23, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1321; K6-11 839; TWEENS 9-14 645
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 1210; K6-11 887; TWEENS 9-14 790
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 643; K6-11 451; TWEENS 9-14 329
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 203; K6-11 116; TWEENS 9-14 81
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: In the movie Monsters, Inc., Monstropolis runs on the energy from what? KIDS SCREAMS Kudos to: Mara Anastas-Simon & Schuster/NY; Jeremy Rosenberg- iDeutsch/NY; Sherrie Brooks-Turner Broadcasting System, Inc/Atlanta; Anjelika Kosanic-PBS/Arlington, VA; Izzy Neis-Star Farm Productions/Chicago; Mike Patterson-Cartoon Network/Chicago; Barb Throm-creative LAB/St. Louis; Lynn Costello-Hawthorne Direct/Phoenix; Shannon Estrada-Schiefer Media/Santa Ana, CA; Colleen Sherfey-Bandai America, Inc./Cypress, CA; Nicole Martin-Cookie Jar Entertainment/LA; Erica Enriquez-Cartoon Network and Boomerang/Australia; Lori Heiss-Disney Channel/London; Guy Hallifax-Phew!!/Ottawa
Today’s Trivia Question: In addition to Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote also stalked which other “Looney Tunes” character? ( 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!
07.26.07
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