Knott's Berry Farm will magically transform into Knott's Merry Farm this holiday season as they present "A Charlie Brown Christmas" with seasonal entertainment, spectacular decorations including a 65 foot tall Christmas tree, and a colorful Christmas parade starting Thanksgiving day and running through December 30, 2008.
In this month's column, Pamela Kleibrink Thompson offers some advance holiday preparation to ease the anxiety and make it more meaningful to your career.
Sony's Will Smith tentpole HANCOCK grossed $17.3 million on 3,965 runs on Wednesday, per VARIETY. That's less than experts had predicted, given Smith's star power, but it could have been hurt by less-than-good reviews (Rotten Tomatoes' meter is currently at 36 percent).
The film's cume is at $24.1M when its Tuesday night-preview gross ($6.8M) is factored in.
HANCOCK is still expected to do around $100M on the five-day (six counting Tuesday night) holiday weekend, but it will have to have a strong Friday-Sunday to make that mark.
Marketing agency Pimento re-launches the Holiday Inn brand this week to an audience of more than 2,500 delegates at IHG's (InterContinental Hotel Group) Pan European conference at Farnborough 5, the new purpose build exhibition and conference venue at Farnborough International Airport in Hampshire.
The week-long series of conferences every April brings together owners and investors, general managers, sales and marketing executives and senior staff from IHG, its hotels and franchises at this IHG EMEA world event.
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER brought some holiday cheer to CBS, delivering a win in viewership on Tuesday, while tying with NBC for adults 18-49, report the trades. The perennial holiday special averaged 14.3 million viewers for a 5.1 rating/14 share for adults 18-49. Viewership was up 13% from its airing last year.
Nickelodeon has unwrapped its annual lineup of holiday programming, featuring five never-before-seen episodes of Nick Jr.'s MAX & RUBY, WOW! WOW! WUBBZY!, YO GABBA GABBA! and Nickelodeon's WAYSIDE.
During "Frosty Fridays" throughout December the network will present new holiday episodes every Friday from 12:00 - 2:00 pm ET/PT that include MAX & RUBY (Dec. 7 and Dec. 28), WOW! WOW! WUBBZY! (Dec. 14) and YO GABBA GABBA! (Dec. 21). The mini-marathons will also include seasonal episodes of THE BACKYARDIGANS, DORA THE EXPLORER, GO, DIEGO, GO!, BLUE'S CLUES and THE WONDER PETS!.
EAA is holding its annual holiday party at its facilities. Food and beverages will be available, including an Oreo bar. Attendees are also encouraged to bring their own special holiday dishes to share. For more information, visit enterartacad.com.
Following holiday tradition, Classic Media is re-releasing its timeless Christmas DVD titles from their library of original television Christmas classics, including RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, THE LEGEND OF FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL and CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.
The Cartoon Art Museum invites its patrons to kick off the holiday season in style with Peanuts Holiday Parade: A Celebration of the Art of Charles M. Schulz, opening on Friday, Nov. 24, 2006.
Highlighting its November lineup of game titles, Electronic Arts released two new DARK AGE OF CAMELOT (DAOC) in North America. LABYRINTH OF THE MINOTAUR, the MMORPG's 7th expansion, is being released in conjunction with the epic fantasy game's 5th anniversary. The new expansion is available both as a stand alone product via digital distribution and as part of the new DARK AGE OF CAMELOT: 5TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION. Developed by EA Mythic (formerly Mythic Ent.), the titles are available for the PC and require an internet connection to play.
ABC Ent. is adding SHREK THE HALLS, a DreamWorks Animation original animated special to its library of holiday classics and will premiere it in December 2007. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas will reprise their original roles in the half-hour special.
HOLIDAZE: THE CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST DIDNT HAPPEN will premiere in this upcoming holiday season with a DVD launch scheduled through Wal-mart in mid-November. The franchise features a newly created set of holiday characters captured in stop-motion animation.
NBC viewers will get a new, live-action version of the Yuletide classic THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS, a heartwarming story about Santa Claus and a young boy who help each other believe in Christmas again, produced originally in stop-motion animation by Rankin-Bass.
Although Universals KING KONG has not yet turned into the holiday juggernaut that most industry observers predicted, it muscled its way past Buena Vistas THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE to retain its box office lead during the four-day holiday weekend ended Dec. 26, 2005.
The wolf makes peace with the lamb this holiday season in a new campaign from PUMA. Award-winning Version2 VFX/Design and editor Dave Herman were called on once again by director Andrew Zuckerman to execute the clever spots, which are an extension of ongoing creative for the client.
THE POLAR EXPRESS: AN IMAX 3-D EXPERIENCE, now in its second holiday season, has reached another box office milestone, surpassing $50 million at the box office since it premiered last November. The digitally re-mastered holiday classic was re-released Nov. 23 in IMAX theaters, simultaneous with its DVD launch, and has continuously been among the top 20-grossing films in North America. In its third weekend, from Dec. 9-11, the film registered an impressive 12th-place ranking on the charts, grossing $931,603 on just 66 screens.
Women In Film/Chicago is celebrating our first Holiday Season and want you to be there with us! Come on out and join us during this festive time! There will be free giveaways, a raffle to benefit DEBORAH
The WB has a trio of holiday specials in December.
The PhotoImaging Manufacturers & Distributors Association (PMDA) will host its PMDA 2005 Holiday Party for photo/digital imaging industry executives, from 6:00
YTV and Treehouse in Canada have a month-long lineup of holiday programming to help every member of the family ring in the festive season.
Left Lane Cartoons Holiday Art ContestWorld Wide WebJanuary 31, 2004Deadline: December 23, 2004
Left Lane Cartoons is sponsoring a Holiday Art Contest. All children, ages 5 to 13, are invited to submit an illustrated book report of their favorite novel. Six winners will receive art books. Entries may be sent to: Left Lane Cartoons, Box 53074 - 10 Royal Orchard Blvd., Thornhill, Ontario, Canada L3T 7R4. For more information, visit www.leftlanecartoons.com.
MTV International and is making the holidays merrier by airing a HAPPY TREE FRIENDS half-hour holiday special produced by Mondo Media Productions. HAPPY TREE FRIENDS WINTER BREAK is running exclusively on 15 participating MTV Intl channels from Dec. 10-30, 2004. MTV 2 (U.S.) just came on board to air the holiday special six times, commencing Dec. 24.
The Toronto Animated Image Society is hosting its annual holiday party. This year's party will also include our first-ever silent auction. Start your holiday season up right at the only party in town where you can get cool holiday gifts and drink eggnog at the same time. The party will take place at the National Film Board from 7:00 to 11:00 pm. For more information, call (416) 533-7889, visit e-mail: Tais@bellnet.ca or visit www.awn.com/tais.
Digital-Tutors announced the Season's Savings Sale and companion gifts at Digital-Tutors. In celebration of the holiday season, Digital-Tutors is offering 20% off all training titles and free USB Flash Drives on select products purchased now and through Dec. 29, 2004. To receive the discount, enter dtseason as the discount code for all purchases.
The WB will bring viewers a few timeless holiday classics, including the exclusive broadcast network airing of the 1939 film, THE WIZARD OF OZ, on Dec. 19, 2004, from 7:30 to 10:00 pm for the third consecutive year.
