A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM DIC ENTERTAINMENT
“KEWL” NEWS: DIC NOW OFFERS ONE STOP SHOPPING!
TV, Print, Radio, & Online
- Launching the first 24-hour online “KEWL Cartoon” Community in Summer ’07 with free VOD, safe chatting, games and more.
- Debuting the first TWEEN targeted music & fan magazine “KEWL.” Available at retailers nationwide!
- Targeting girls & boys this year with “KEWL TV” on CBS Saturday Mornings.
- Stay tuned for the launch of “KEWL” Radio in 2008
Contact: Karl Kuechenmeister or Dave Danowski at (212) 239-4437
Cynopsis: Kids!
4/24/07
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, April 24, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing.
Alloy, Inc., the youth-targeted media and marketing company, has inked a deal to acquire Channel One Communications Corporation from Primedia, Inc for a price tag estimated to be between $5-10 million. Channel One, the news/public affairs content provider for students in middle and high schools across the country, has seen major losses over the past year due primarily, according to Alloy, to a lack of spending in the technology arena, the high costs of maintaining its distribution system, and transient salespeople. Alloy plans to work with schools and educators to strengthen the network, which will include an evaluation and possible upgrade to the infrastructure of Channel One’s entire system. Simultaneously Alloy will be focus on the channel reaching a financial break-even over the next eighteen months.
Online presales for Sony’s Spider-Man 3 tickets are cruising right along with MovieTickets.com reporting that its sales are three times that of Spider-Man 2, for the same time in the ticket sales cycle. Furthermore, the ticket service, which began selling Spider-Man 3 tickets on April 4, says the movie is on track to become one of its best selling films ever. Elsewhere, the Washington Post says that Fandango.com’s Spider-Man 3 tickets sales are moving some four times faster than the prior Spider-Man movies, with the movie accounting for 47% of all of its ticket sales yesterday.
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Gabor Csupo will direct The Moon Princess, a feature film adaptation of Elizabeth Goudge’s young-adult fantasy novel The Little White Horse (1946). Expected begin production this summer in Hungary, The Moon Princess will star Colin Firth in dual roles as Sir Benjamin and Sir Wrolf, per thelittlewhitehorse.com. The movie is currently slated for release in 2008. A point of interest here is that J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter author, has on several occasions said that her favorite book as a child was The Little White Horse.
MORE KIDS STUFF
The season finale of The Batman on Kids’ WB on the CW, will beget the events of the upcoming 2007-2008 season. The two-part season-ender, The Joining, will air on consecutive Saturdays, April 28 and May 5 at 10:30a. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, The Joining will feature special guest stars Dorian Harewood and Louis Gossett, Jr., lending their voices to detective John Jones (aka Martian Manhunter) and Lucius Fox, respectively.
Disney.com will run a 9-minute preview of the Pixar movie Ratatouille. The animated feature will open nationwide on June 29, 2007.
Toei Animation Co. has inked a license deal with Disney ABC Cable Networks Group for a fifth season of Toei’s anime series Digimon, titled Digimon Data Squad. Season five of Digimon is scheduled to bow on Toon Disney’s Jetix block in fall 2007. Toei Animation is producing 48×30′ new episodes of Digimon Data Squad, bringing the total number of Digimon episodes 253.
MARKETING/LICENSING
Gameloft, mobile games developer/publisher, has inked a domestic and international licensing deal with DreamWorks Animation SKG for a new mobile game based on Shrek the Third. The new game, which follows the movie’s storyline, is scheduled for release across 170 operators in 75+ countries, in conjunction with the May 18, 2007 release of Shrek the Third.
Toei Animation Co. has awarded Funimation Entertainment the North American DVD distribution rights for the anime series One Piece. Under the agreement, Funimation will produce an uncut English-language adaptation of One Piece from the original Japanese version. Additionally, Cartoon Network has picked up a third season of the series, which Funimation will also produce, for Saturday night Toonami programming block.
DMI Music & Media Solutions, an audio branding company, has teamed with Build-A-Bear Workshop for a music partnership. Under the deal, DMI will create exclusive in-store audio and new custom songs for Build-A-Bear Workshop stores around the world. Build-A-Bear Workshop owns the audio and music content. Additionally, the songs are also available for download on via www.buildabear.com.
STONE SOUP
TV5MONDE USA, in association with Time Warner Cable of Maine, has organized French-language “Teach and Learn” training seminars utilizing the channel as a teaching tool for French teachers from approximately 250 public schools in Bangor, Lewiston, Augusta, and the surrounding region. The program has been developed over the last eight years in partnership with Centre d’Approches Vivantes des Langues et des Medias, a worldwide organization specializing in media in language education.
This Thursday, look for the Cyn opsis Weekender College Edition sponsored by Greek, A New ABC Family Original Series coming in July. The edition will include four editorials on television chosen from the 150+ essays submitted from college students all around the world. The edition will also include a special section of Situation Wanted ads sent in by college students all looking to be hired into our industry. Be sure to pay special attention to these ads!
EXECUTIVE MOVES
MTV Networks has promoted Andra Shapiro and George Cheeks to the new positions of EVP/Business Affairs and Co-General Counsel. Both will report to Rich Eigendorff, acting COO, MTVN. Shapiro and Cheeks will jointly oversee MTVN Business and Legal Affairs, directing the business and legal affairs strategy, policy, and operations, as well as advise senior management on legal and regulatory matters. Reporting to Shapiro will be the business and legal areas of MTVN’s Kids and Family Group, International, Content Distribution and Marketing, and the Litigation and Intellectual Property Group. Meanwhile, the business and legal arms of the MTVN’s Music, Logo and Films Group, the Entertainment Group and Global Digital Media, as well as the Music Strategy Group, will report to Cheeks. Shapiro and Cheeks will share responsibility for the Music and Media Licensing Group, in addition to Employment and Labor. Additionally, Shapiro, a 19-year MTVN veteran retains her current title of EVP/Business Affairs and General Counsel, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group. Cheeks will keep his title of EVP, Business Affairs and General Counsel, MTVN Music and Entertainment Groups.
Gray Davis, former California Governor, has been appointed to the Board of Directors, DIC Entertainment, as a non-executive director. Currently, Davis is Of Counsel in the LA office of the Entertainment law firm of Loeb & Loeb LLP. Davis also serves on the Board of Directors for Source Interlink, and he sits on an Advisory Board for Roth Capital Partners.
Correction : Marvel Entertainment’s newly promoted Jamie Kampel, is a she and not a he as me indicated here yesterday.
RATINGS
Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Friday, April 20, 2007, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON: K2-11 1107; K6-11 525; TWEENS 9-14 346
DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 843; K6-11 541; TWEENS 9-14 411
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 533; K6-11 342; TWEENS 9-14 298
TOON DISNEY: K2-11 131; K6-11 73; TWEENS 9-14 43
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
Answer to Yesterday’s trivia question: On Spongebob Squarepants, where is Sandy originally from? TEXAS. Kudos to: David Stern-Bard Entertainment/NY; Michael Liebowitz-Grey Advertising/NY; Cortney Naylor-Banyan Productions/Philadelphia; Bill Graham-Cartoon Network/NY; Angela Bateman-THQ/LA
Today’s Trivia Question: Which Rugrat character had an obsession with chocolate chip cookies? (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!
04.24.07
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