Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Cynopsis: Kids!

10/26/06

Good morning. It’s Thursday, October 26, 2006 and this is your first early morning Kids! briefing.

Marvel Studios has inked a deal with No Equal Entertainment, a Vancouver based production company, to develop a live-action sci-fi/adventure TV series based on Marvel’s superhero Moon Knight. Created by writer Doug Moench and artist Don Perlin, Moon Knight, aka Marc Spector, made his first appearance in Marvel Comics’ Werewolf by Night in summer 1975. An adventurer, Moon Knight began life as Marc Spector the wayward son of European immigrants to America and went on to number of vocations including a US Marine, boxer, mercenary, CIA operative and following an encounter with the Egyptian god of vengeance and the moon deity Konshu, he became the super hero Moon Knight.

Channel One has teamed with ABC News Now, the 24/7 digital channel, to create content for Be Seen and Be Heard, a new weekly student-generated program that will air Fridays at 12:30p on ABC News Now. Channel One will invite its student viewers to create and submit their own video content featuring their response to Channel One’s current affairs/political programming. Students will also be able to submit their thoughts/reactions to headlines via a forum on both ABCNews.com and ChannelOne.com. In addition, ABC News will include Channel One segments and viewer feedback into their program. Students can submit content created on their mobile phones, digital cameras, camcorders and/or webcams.

Disney has picked up the rights to Animated American, a mixed live-action/animated movie, per Daily Variety. The movie revolves around an animated teen who is trying to fit with everyone in his live-action world. Set to be produced by Bob Cooper’s Landscape Entertainment and ImageMovers partners Robert Zemeckis and Jack Rapke, the screenplay for Animated American will be penned by Peter Ackerman.

Paramount and Warner Bros. will release director Robert Zemeckis’ digitally-enhanced live-action movie adaptation of the old English epic poem Beowulf in REAL D, as well as other large format 3D theaters, simultaneous to the movie’s release in traditional movie houses, on November, 2007. When Beowulf in REAL D will be available in 1,000+ theaters around the world, most of which are in the US. As if it wasn’t enough to have a screenplay by Neil Gaiman and Robert Avary and a cast including Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich amongst others.

MARKETING/LICENSING

The Weinstein Company has become the first of the US movie studios to respond to a letter sent to the big movie studios last month by 41 US state attorney generals. The letter encouraged the studios to feature anti-smoking public service announcements prior to the feature presentation on all home entertainment releases, on any and all formats, for movies they distribute that depict smoking. When the Weinstein Company releases Clerks II on DVD this December 5, 2006, it will feature one of the American Legacy Foundation’s ads from its truth campaign, a youth smoking prevention initiative. The request sent in a letter a year ago, included three of the Foundation’s truth ads, which were also made available to the studios to insert in their home entertainment releases. Last month the American Legacy Foundation published Televised Movie Trailers: Undermining Restrictions on Advertising Tobacco to Youth, a new study which found that the majority of teens are being exposed to smoking images through movie trailers on TV, despite the fact that tobacco advertising was banned from TV in 1971. The study looked at all movie trailers that ran on TV from August 1, 2001 to July 31, 2002. http://www.americanlegacy.org/

Meanwhile…

Another advertiser is looking to movie screens and aliens to spread its message to consumers. The California Milk Processor Board is set to expand its Got Milk? campaign into movie theaters for the first time. Beginning November 17 CMPB will debut its new campaign Aliens, a series of five humorous spots edited into one a two-minute shorts for theaters, and seen on 600 movie screens. Developed by CMPB’s advertising partners Gooby, Silverstein & Partners, the premise of Aliens is to get consumers to look at milk in a new way, specifically as seen through the eyes of extraterrestrials who see milk as a “miracle elixir.” The first four Alien spots began airing on TV in California in March 2006; the fifth spot makes its premiere in movie theaters.

Compedia, an interactive game publisher/developer, is developing a series of educational interactive based on Casper the Friendly Ghost, under a deal with Classic Media. The CD-ROM and DVD TV format games will include various activities and songs to help the learning experience along, the new games set for release this fall. Classic Media recently completed a deal with MoonScoop to produce a new Casper the Friendly Ghost animated TV series, which will be developed with TF1 (France) and co-produced by India’s DQ Entertainment. The new animated movie, Casper’s Scare School, premieres this month on Cartoon Network.

Shutterfly, Inc., the web-based social expression and personal publishing service, and HIT Entertainment have entered into a licensing deal to create and distribute a line of personalized Photo Books, which will feature some of HIT’s preschool characters Thomas & Friends and Angelina Ballerina. Consumers will be able to create their own Photo Books by adding their pictures into original stories and different themed backgrounds. Available in two formats, 8×8 Story Book ($34.99) and the 12×12 Memory Book ($59.99), the books are available through Shutterfly.

STONE SOUP

Electronic Arts opens its new development studio in Chicago this week. EA Chicago’s development team, which includes those who best known for the EA Sports Fight Night game franchise, will focus its efforts on developing new next generation video games, beginning with three new titles for PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, including the hip-hop lifestyle game, DEF JAM: ICON, as well as a licensed title and a new intellectual property in the fighting game genre. The new studio currently has a staff on 150 and expects increase the number of developers at the studio by 100 next year. EA Chicago is headed by VP/GM, Kudo Tsunoda.

This week marks the launch of Hip Hop Weekly, a new magazine from David Mays and Ray Benzino, creators of The Source. Available at newsstands, HHW includes goal is to provide its readers with timely and relevant information. The debut issue features Game and Dr. Dre on its cover, while section and articles inside the magazine include: coverage of VH1’s recent Hip Hop Honors special; photos of DMX taking off after a soundman at a recent concert in Long Island; “310 Whips” features Nick Cannon and his 2006 Phantom Rolls Royce; a feature on how Jay-Z & Beyonce are fending off nay-sayers as well as spotlights on Yung Dro, Fat Joe and Lupe Fiasco; a first-hand report from Jay Z/Rick Ross’ recent overseas concert tour; and an editorial on football player Tarrell Owens and a pictorial on hip hop/sports brand, And 1 and its streetball games, tours and video game as well as politics and fashion items too.

RATINGS

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Tuesday, October 24, 2006, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:         K2-11 1049; K6-11 470; TWEENS 9-14 319
DISNEY CHANNEL:     K2-11   791; K6-11 528: TWEENS 9-14 489
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11   516; K6-11 292; TWEENS 9-14 196
TOON DISNEY:          K2-11   109; K6-11   46; TWEENS 9-14   29
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: Shawn Hunter was the best friend to the main character on what show? BEST FRIEND TO CORY MATTHEWS ON BOY MEETS WORLD Kudos to: Elizabeth Barker-Mediaedge:cia/NY; Hayley Ostrager-4 Kids Entertainment, Inc/NY; Jessica Bricker-PBS/Arlington VA; Julie Caracciolo-Active Media Services/Pearl River NY; Malia Chee-Strata Marketing/Chicago; Kurtis Humfeld-KMSP FOX 9 /WFTC My29/Eden Prairie, MN; Chris Rettstatt-Star Farm Productions/Chicago; Mary Kean-The Sharpe Company/Manhattan Beach CA; Jennifer Skobin/LA; William “Chip” Beaman-Soundelux Design Music Group/Hollywood; John Harper-Keller Williams/Beverly Hills; David Brunner-AGB Nielsen Media Research/Lugano Switzerland; Stephanie Kravos-Nelvana Limited/Toronto

Today’s Trivia Question: Before joining her kids’ band, where did Mrs. Partridge work? ( 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!
10.26.06

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