Cyn opsis: Kids!
09/05/06
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, September 5, 2006 and this is your first early morning Kids! briefing.
Ca-ching, $989 million, Ca-ching, $990m, and Ca-ching, $991.9m, that is the worldwide box office total so far for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, which Buena Vista International expects, by next weekend, will transcend the $1 billion mark. Having already overtaken Warner Bros’ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone which ended just shy of a billion at $976.5 million, Pirates will join the exclusive club of movies that have earned $1+ billion worldwide. Those titles include Paramount’s Titanic with a total of $1.9 billion global in receipts, followed by New Line’s movie Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King with a total of $1.1 billion.
Discovery Communications issued a statement about the sudden death of Steve Irwin and upcoming programming to air in honor of the Crocodile Hunter. “Steve was beloved by millions of fans and animal lovers around the world and was one of our planet’s most passionate conservationists. He has graced Animal Planet’s air since October 1996 and was essential in building Animal Planet into a global brand.” The rare accident occurred on the Great Barrier Reef when Steve swam over a stingray and was stung by its barb in his chest. On September 10, Animal Planet U.S., as well as Animal Planet International, will air an all-day marathon tribute featuring the Best of the Crocodile Hunter. Other plans include renaming the garden space in front of Discovery’s world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, the “Steve Irwin Memorial Garden.” DCI is planning to create the Steve Irwin Crocodile Hunter Fund, which it plans affectionately call “The Crikey Fund.” The Fund will be established for wildlife protection, education and conservation.
The Toy Industry Association’s Board-of-Directors voted unanimously at the tail end of last week to keep The American International Fall Toy Show in New York for 2007. Carter Keithley, President, TIA explained the decision, was because New York is the heart of the toy industry and the city affords the best opportunity to keep the industry together. The American International Fall Toy Show will be held October 14-17, 2007 at NYC’s Javits Convention Center and various showrooms around the city. The 2006 Fall Toy Show will be held October 20-23.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Canada’s YTV is set to launch Crunch, a new weekly Saturday animated programming block, this Saturday, September 9, 7a-12n. YTV is positioning Crunch as Day 6, that is a place just for kids, with its own website (www.mycrunch.com), manifesto, set of rules and its own host (name to be announced this week). Prior to this was YTV Saturday morning block was called Vortex, which ran from 2001 through June 2006 when it was replaced for the summer by The Zone Summer Weekends programming. YTV’s 2006-2007 Crunch line-up from September 9, 7a-12n:
- 7a Captain Flamingo
- 7:30a Xiaolin Showdown
- 8a SpongeBob SquarePants
- 8:30a Fairly OddParents
- 9a Viva Pinata
- 9:30a Danny Phantom
- 10a Teen Titans
- 10:30a Teen Galaxy
- 11a Avatar
- 11:30a Shuriken School
Also in Canada, Family Channel is supporting this Friday’s debut of season two of its live-action series Life With Derek with 39 behind-the-scenes podcasts featuring the cast of the show. The podcasts can be downloaded via http://www.family.ca/ and iTunes. Family Channel made the premiere episode of the new season of Life With Derek available online over the weekend. The comedy is produced by Shaftesbury Films in association with Family Channel.
BBC Magazines jumps into the world of online teen publishing when it debuts a digital version of its Top Of The Pops (TOTP) magazine in conjunction with Zinio Systems tomorrow. One of the UK’s top teen monthly magazines, BBC Magazines Teen Group is looking at the new online TOTP as a compliment to the print edition. The digital edition of TOTP will include interactive features such as exclusive music videos as well as offering advertisers increased reach and the ability to expand their creative using video and audio content. The first online edition of TOTP will be free, with a subsequent annual subscription running about $19, with online subscribers receiving new editions five days prior to it being available at newsstands. According to my quick search on the web, an annual subscription to a print edition TOTP costs about $65.
Ernst & Young LLP and Northrop Grumman Corporation have signed on as new funders for Cyberchase, the animated math-adventures series, designed for Kids 8-11, which airs on PBS Kids Go. Heading into its fifth season, Cyberchase continues to be funded by long-time supporters, the National Science Foundation, Intel Corporation, Intel Foundation as well as PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with additional funding provided by The Volckhausen Family. Produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Nelvana Limited, the fifth season of Cyberchase will focus on Math & Inventions and will feature themed episodes, online games, and outreach activities.
MARKETING/LICENSING
FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW) has inked licensing deals for the animated 25th anniversary of DangerMouse including pacts with: Blues Clothing for women’s/girls’ sleepwear/underwear (from spring 2007); Concept 2 Creation, collectable figurines (November 2006). Other DangerMouse products will include mugs, key rings, puzzles, posters and magnets, toys/games, and other apparel (T-shirts, socks). This week also marks the UK release of DangerMouse 25th anniversary DVD box set, comprised of 12-discs featuring every DangerMouse episode as well as interviews, featurette, behind-the-scenes footage, games, photos and so on. FLW is part of FremantleMedia Enterprises, the commercial arm of Fremantle International Distribution, which also includes Fremantle Home Entertainment.
STONE SOUP
Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13; September 1-4, 2006:
Invincible (Buena Vista) PG $15.2m-2 wk total $37.8m
The Wicker Man (Warner Bros.) PG-13 Opening Weekend $11.7m
The Illusionist (Yari Film Group Releasing) PG-13 $8.0m-3 wk total $12.1m
Talladega Nights/Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Sony) PG-13 $7.7m-5 wk total $138.4m
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (Paramount) PG $6.4m-5 wk total $63.6m
Accepted (Universal) PG-13 $5.9m-3 wk total $29.4m
World Trade Center (Paramount) PG-13 $5.8m-4 wk total $63.7m
Step Up (Buena Vista) PG-13 $5.5m-4 wk total $58.4m
Pirates of the Caribbean/Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista) PG-13 $5.1m-9 wk total $414.2m
Crossover (Sony) PG-13 Opening Weekend $4.5m
Source: Box Office Mojo
EXECUTIVE MOVES
EM.TV has announced that Patrick Elmendorff, Managing Director/EM.Entertainment GmbH and Junior.TV GmbH & Co. KG will step down from his role as of December 31, 2006, in order to pursue new challenges. Elmendorff joined EM.TV group seven years ago and has served as President/TV Distribution and prior to that as VP/International TV Sales. Susanne Schosser will take on full responsibility as Managing Director, heading-up global TV distribution, as well as the merchandising and home entertainment business, in addition to maintaining her management role within production, program purchasing and national distribution. Schosser will put a new management team place with the mission of further integrating the company’s production and distribution efforts to grow and expand development, production and marketing of content, new distribution channels (e.g. VOD, mobile and IPTV), in tandem with traditional sales initiatives (e.g. free-TV, pay-TV and home entertainment) to become a leader in kid-targeted content production and marketing. Since spring 2005 Elmendorff and Schosser have managed the two units together EM.Entertainment and Junior.TV.
RATINGS
Final K6-11 Ratings for Saturday, August 25, 2006 Broadcast Networks only (Live + SD Data):
Source: Kids WB! Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
WB (Kids’ WB!) 1.2/6 Avg. (7a-12n)
Pillow Head 1 0.4/5; Pillow Head 2 0.8/6; Johnny Test 1.1/7; Xiaolin Showdown 1.5/8; Xiaolin Showdown 1.5/7; Loonatics 1.2/6; Pokemon 1.5/7; Spider Riders 1.2/6; Batman 1.3/6; Viewtiful Joe 1.1/5
ABC (ABC Kids) 1.4/7 Avg. (9a-1p)
Lilo & Stitch 0.7/4; Emperor’s New School 1.2/6; The Proud Family 1.3/6; That’s So Raven 1.6/8; Suite Life of Zack & Cody 2.0/9; Phil of the Future 1.9/9; Kim Possible 1.6/8; Power Rangers Mystic Force 1.0/5
FOX (4Kids TV) 1.0/5 Avg. (8a-12n)
Viva Pinata 0.6/5; Bratz 0.7/4; Viva Pinata 0.9/5; Winx Club 1.3/6; Viva Pinata 1.0/5; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fast Forward 1.0/4; Viva Pinata 1.1/5; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fast Forward 1.3/7;
Magical DoReMi 0.5/2; Kirby 0.7/3; Ultimate Muscle 0.7/3; Crap Twins 0.7/3
NBC (Discovery Kids on NBC) Avg. 0.5/2 (10a-1p*)
Kenny The Shark 0.4/2; Time Warp Trio 0.4/2; Trading Spaces 0.6/3; Darcy’s Wild Life 0.5/3; Flight 29 Down 0.5/2; Endurance 0.5/2
*various start times
CBS (Nick on CBS) 0.5/3 Avg. (7:30a-8a*/10a, 11a-12n*)
Go, Diego, Go 0.6/4; Lazytown 0.4/2; The Backyardigans 0.4/2; Little Bill 0.5/2; Blues Clues 0.4/2; Dora the Explorer 0.6/3
*various start times
Final K6-11 Ratings for Saturday, August 25, 2006 Cable Networks only (Live + SD Data):
Source: Kids WB! Research from Nielsen Media Research Data
NICKELODEON 3.8/21Avg. (8a-1p)
All Grown Up 1.1/14; Fairly OddParents 2.4/22; Jimmy Neutron 3.6/27; Jimmy Neutron 5.1/30; SpongeBob SquarePants 5.5/25; SpongeBob SquarePants 5.4/25; Fairly OddParents 5.5/26; Fairly OddParents 5.0/23; The X’s 3.4/16; Danny Phantom 3.4/17
CARTOON NETWORK 2.6/14 Avg. (7a-1p)
Cartoon Cartoon* 1.3/19; Ed, Edd & Eddy 1.3/12; Cartoon Top 5 (60 min) 2.3/15; My Gym Partner’s A Monkey 3.3/16; My Gym Partner’s A Monkey 3.3/15; Ben 10 3.2/15; Teen Titans 2.8/13; Teen Titans 3.0/15; Code Lyoko 2.7/13
*starts at 6:30a
DISNEY CHANNEL 1.9/10 Avg. (7a-1p)
JoJo’s Circus 1.9/26; Higglytown Heroes 2.1/20; Little Einsteins 2.2/16; Little Einsteins 1.9/11; Mickey Mouse Club 2.3/12; Mickey Mouse Club 2.3/11; Doodlebops 1.6/7; Doodlebops 1.3/6; Charlie & Lola 1.3/6; Koala Brothers 1.0/5
Answer to Friday’s Trivia Question: If you drank this potion and smoke streamed from your collar, your face flickered black and white like an X-Ray and you yell like Tarzan, what potion are your drinking? Here’s a hint – if you don’t move the potion to a glass container soon enough, it will eat right through the cast iron kettle. GRANNY’S LOVE POTION on THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES Kudos to: Joe Swaney-Cartoon Network/Atlanta; David McDermott/Venice, CA
Today’s Trivia Question: Mild-mannered Spence from CBS’ The King of Queens, once played a rock’in DJ in what film? ( 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
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09.05.06
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