Cynopsis: Kids!
5/24/07
Good morning. It’s Thursday, May 24, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing.
Germany’s EM.TV AG is looking to egress the kids TV business with news that it has put its Junior.TV GmbH and EM.Entertainment GmbH channels and units up for sale as the company re-directs all its efforts towards sports centric TV channels, programming and websites.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has entered into a new multi-year and multi-picture first look deal with Exodus Film Group, to co-develop, produce and finance a slate of CG-animated feature films, DVDs and TV series. TWC is handling worldwide distribution for Exodus’ CG- animated film Igor, which will be released on October 24, 2008. Exodus also says it plans to open a NYC office to support its new partnership with TWC.
Last fall we were consoling He-Man fans after news that the much discussed John Woo and Fox 2000 live-action He-Man movie was not to be. Then the rumblings began again on the web over the last week or so, that a movie based on the Mattel action figure/property just might make it to the big screen. And indeed Variety reports that producer Joel Silver had acquired the rights to produce a live-action He-Man and the Masters of the Universe movie. So it’s all good, well as long as Mattel officially signs of on an outline for the movie.
Fish out of water high school students are the topic for several newly announced movie deals:
- Harold is a comedy about a prematurely balding teen that is just trying to get along at his new high school. Produced by Cuba Gooding Jr., who is also in the movie, the comedy is to be financed by City Lights Pictures and M.E.G.A. Films, per The Hollywood Reporter. Harold is expected to shoot in NYC this August 2007.
- Anyone remember your first day at a new high school? Well what if it was a dismal, failure of a day and you had to relive that day over and over and over and over? That is the concept behind Monday Monday, a new movie idea picked up by Disney from producers Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibot, per Variety.
In other movie news, Arnold and Anne Kopelson are set to produce Land of Lost Things, a new movie in development at Nickelodeon Movies, according to Variety. Nothing to tell you about the plot of the movie at this point hang in there.
Deep Blue Marine has completed production on Pirate Camp, an indie family adventure movie. Staring Corbin Bernsen and Seth Atkins, Pirate Camp takes place in “the other side of time” at a summer camp that holds the secret to the lost treasure of Blackbeard. A release date for the movie is TBA. More information can be found at http://www.providenceproductions.com / .
MORE KIDS STUFF
Kabillion, the kid-targeted multiplatform VOD/online service, will launch the new animated action/adventure comedy series I Got A Rocket on June 1, on both Kabillion On-Demand and its broadband site ( www.kabillion.com ). Additionally, in support of the debut a sneak peek of I Got A Rocket will be available for a 24-hour period on Kabillion.com on May 24 and Comcast Cable’s Comcast.net on May 29. Based on the Australian kid’s book of the same name from Matt Zurbo and Dean Gorissen, I Got A Rocket is about 12-year old Vinnie Q who gets a space rocket as a birthday present and the misadventures that ensue. The show is co-produced by Australia’s SLR Productions, Taffy Entertainment, Sunwoo Entertainment, Peach Blossom, KI.KA ARD and Europool.
Girl, Positive, a Lifetime Original Movie that deals with high school teens, love, gossip and HIV will premiere on the network on Monday, June 25, 9p. In the movie follows the story of a high school senior worries she may be infected with HIV and how she comes to terms with the news. Designed to raise AIDS awareness, the movie will coincide with National HIV Testing Day on June 27. Lifetime will also air two Public Service Announcements featuring Girl, Positive stars Jennie Garth, Andrea Bowen and S. Epatha Merkerson, during the movie. Additionally, the network has teamed with organizations including Advocates for Youth, the Elton John AIDS Foundation and Cable Positive, to provide further information and resources on the topic at LifetimeTV.com.
MARKETING/LICENSING
PorchLight Entertainment and Rounder Records have entered into a deal to co-develop content based on the tween-targeted pop group Girl Authority for multiple platforms, including a TV series, movie, website, direct-to-video programming and a book series. PorchLight will also handle the marketing and merchandising efforts for the brand as well. Girl Authority is comprised of nine girls (ages 10-15), each with an individual “identity” that relates to their real personality. For example Tarr is the “Rock-n-Roll Girl”, Alex the “Fashion Girl” and so on. Rounder Records released the group’s second CD, Road Trip (five original songs and 14 covers), this spring.
Red Mile Entertainment has inked an exclusive worldwide licensing deal to develop/publish video games based on the Sin City graphic novels and comic books series by author/artist and director Frank Miller. The terms of the deal were not announced.
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 945; K6-11 449; TWEENS 9-14 291
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 730; K6-11 421; TWEENS 9-14 338
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 556; K6-11 338; TWEENS 9-14 235
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 140; K6-11 71; TWEENS 9-14 38
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday’s trivia question: What children’s reading series did actor LeVar Burton host? READING RAINBOW. Kudos to: Samantha Salvatore/Staten Island NY; Ron Yurman-Short Hills Media Group/Short Hills, NJ; Katherine Liu-MTV Networks/NY; Wendy Stone-The Golf Channel/Orlando; Leigh Ann Schwarzkopf-Lookout Marketing/Minneapolis; Malia Chee-Strata One Source/Chicago; Izzy Neis-Star Farm Productions/Chicago; Kurtis Humfeld-KMSP FOX 9 WFTC My29/Eden Prairie, MN; Peggy King-Ziggyone Temp Service/Las Vegas; Valerie Heilbron-Heilbron Associates Inc./Santa Fe, NM; Kerri Huyck-KIDK TV/Idaho Falls; Richard Quan-Imaginary Time/San Francisco; Kristen McGregor-Kids’ CBC/Toronto; Ian Lambur-KidScreen/Toronto; Brenda Nietupski-Corus Entertainment Inc./Toronto; Lynn Valiquette-Ellis Releasing/Toronto
Today’s Trivia Question: What series had an annoying neighbor named Kimmy who never knocked on the door, and just walked into the house? ( 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!
05.24.07
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