Cynopsis: Kids!
09/08/09
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, September 8, 2009, and this is your first early morning Kids briefing.
CBS and Cookie Jar Entertainment will launch Cookie Jar TV, a three-hour Saturday morning kids block, on Saturday, September 19 on CBS. The newly named Educational/Informational compliant block for the 2009-10 season will include episodes of Busytown Mysteries and Noonbory & the Super 7 as well as episodes of Sabrina: The Animated Series. The Cookie Jar TV schedule will generally look as it does below, though its day and times may differ market-to-market and in some markets CBS News’ The Saturday Early Show will air 9-11a. Cookie Jar TV takes over for the Kewlopolis (2007-9) Saturday morning block that had been originally programmed by DIC Entertainment, which was subsequently acquired by Cookie Jar Entertainment. Kewlopolis replaced KOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS (2006-7), also programmed by DIC, which in turn took over for the Nickelodeon programmed Nick Jr. on CBS (2000-6) and which became Nick on CBS in 2002. Prior to fall 2000 CBS programmed its own kid-targeted Saturday morning block.
Cookie Jar TV from September 19, 2009:
7a Busytown Mysteries
7:30a Noonbory & the Super 7
8a Busytown Mysteries
8:30a Sabrina: The Animated Series
11a Busytown Mysteries
11:30a Noonbory & the Super 7
(different episodes in each time slot)
NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Comedian and host (Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?) Jeff Foxworthy will lend his voice to Babe the Blue Ox in the animated feature film Bunyan & Babe, from MGM and Exodus Film Group, per THR. Set for release in 2011, the cast for Bunyan & Babe already includes John Goodman, who will voice Bunyan and Kelsey Grammer as an evil real estate developer. Tony Bancroft and Jim Rygiel are directing the project.
Spain’s Zip Films acquires a minority co-production interest in Killer Films’ upcoming $20 million movie Betsy and the Emperor, per Variety. Directed by John Curran, the movie stars Al Pacino as Napoleon Bonaparte and Dakota Fanning as 14-year-old British girl Betsy Balcombe. Based on the eponymous young adult book by author Staton Rabin, which in turn is based on the true story of Napoleon’s friendship with a teenage girl on St. Helena during his exile, the movie is set to shoot in early 2010. The film had originally been with Warner Bros.’ kid-targeted group Storyopolis. Under the deal Zip also picks up the movie rights for Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
MORE KIDS STUFF
Cartoon Network will premiere the third season of its animated action/adventure series Ben 10: Alien Force on Friday, September 11, at 8:30p.
Disney Channel and DXD programming highlights:
- The network will air Disney Channel Night of Premieres on Friday, September 25 8-11p. The evening includes the new Phineas and Ferb’s Quantum Boogaloo (8p), a two-part time travel episode featuring the voices of Jennifer Grey, Jennifer Stone (Wizards of Waverly Place) and Moises Arias (Hannah Montana), as well as a new episode of The Suite Life on Deck (8:30p), a sneak peek at the upcoming The Suite Life on Deck hour-long special, and the network premiere of Meet the Robinsons (9-10:30p)
- Disney Channel hosts its second October celebration, Wiztober, featuring Halloween and wizard-themed shows and hosted by members of the cast of Wizards of Waverly Place throughout October. The month will feature the season three premiere of Wizards of Waverly Place on Friday, October 9 at 8p. The month-long lineup includes the network’s TV movies including Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie, Halloweentown and Twitches and sequels as well as two Harry Potter movies, as well as new episodes of Jonas and The Suit Life On Deck.
- Disney Channel and DXD invite kids to go online to vote for their favorite songs from Phineas and Ferb. A compilation of the top ten songs from the series will be featured on Phineas and Ferb’s Musical Cliptastic Countdown on Monday, October 12 at 8p on DXD, with a marathon of episodes of Phineas and Ferb airing from 10a that morning until the debut. The special will also air on Disney Channel on Friday, October 16 at 9p. Once online fans can select up to 10 of their favorites Phineas and Ferb songs, from 20 music videos offered.
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MARKETING/LICENSING
McFarlane Toys and Disney Consumer Products partner to create a line of toys based on the action/adventure feature film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The toy line will feature characters and scenes from the movie, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Sir Ben Kingsley and Gemma Arterton, including action figures, play sets and collectibles. Based on the Prince of Persia video game franchise, the Disney movie is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Mike Newell, and is set for a May 28, 2010 release. The toy line will debut at retail in May 2010.
Chapman Entertainment inks a food and beverage license deal for its Roary the Racing Car property with HL Food for its Premiere Food line in the UK. Under the deal Roary and his pals will be featured as pasta shapes in canned pasta from Premiere Foods. The new Roary the Racing Car-themed canned pastas will be available at retail from October 2009. Roary the Racing Car airs in the UK on Five’s Milkshake! and Nick Jr.
Egmont Publishing has put together a six-figure marketing effort for the new authorized Winnie-the-Pooh book, Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, which is set for publication on October 5, 2009, per The Bookseller. Written by David Benedictus and illustrated by Mark Burgess, the new book comes 83 years after the publication Winnie-the-Pooh and 81 years after The House at Pooh Corner, both written by A. A. Milne‘s and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Dutton Children’s Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group (USA), is publishing Return to the Hundred Acre Wood simultaneously in the UK and the US. The book answers the question whatever happened to Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. Egmont’s marketing campaign includes outdoor and online ads and a micro website, www.returntothehundredacrewood.co.uk , as well as email blasts and experiential marketing and promotions with retailers such as Waterstones, WH Smiths and Tesco. The website features a map of Hundred Acre Wood, contests and newsletters among other things. Benedictus previously worked on audio CD adaptations of various Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
Konami Digital Entertainment introduces Ancient Prophecy, the new Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game (TCG) booster set. Ancient Prophecy features new spells, traps and monster cards from all three Yu-Gi-Oh TV series. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s airs in the US on Monday-Saturday Cartoon Network as well as Saturday mornings on The CW4Kids TV. There are nine cards per pack ($3.99/pack).
STONE SOUP
Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13; Labor Day Weekend September 4-7, 2009:
All About Steve (Fox) PG-13 Opening Weekend $13.9m
Julie & Julia (Sony / Columbia) PG-13 $7.0m-5 wk total $80.6m
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Paramount) PG-13 $6.7m-5 wk total $141.0m
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Warner Bros. (New Line)) PG-13 $5.5m-4 wk total $55.8m
Shorts (Warner Bros.) PG $3.8m-3 wk total $18.2m
G-Force (Buena Vista) PG $2.8m-7 wk total $115.4m
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Warner Bros.) PG $2.5m-8 wk total $297.5m
(500) Days of Summer (Fox Searchlight) PG-13 $2.4m-8 wk total $28.4m
Ponyo (Buena Vista) G $1.8m-4 wk total $13.5m
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Paramount (DreamWorks)) PG-13 $1.0m-11 wk total $400.7m
Source: Rentrak
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: This pro wrestler in the 1980s was recreated as a GI Joe character – who is he? SGT. SLAUGHTER Kudos to: Roz Nowicki-4 Kids Entertainment/NY; Darryl J Gausten-Cartoon Network/Adult Swim/Atlanta; Meredith Rusu-HarperCollins/New York; Tom Wetzel-MMSI/Warwick; Erik Nelson-UPROAR!/Dallas; Mark Rodriguez-MDR Entertainment/Valencia; Pat Brady-CESD/LA; Emily Little-Game Show Network/Santa Monica
Today’s Trivia Question: What show was a spin-off of Transformers? (Email [email protected] 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!
09.08.09
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