Galactik Football

TV Kids
Weekly, July 31, 2007

ORIGIN: Based on an original idea from Augias
Imagination Collectif Auteurs, the collective name of the series’ authors, led
by Charles Barrez and Vincent Vandelli.

DISTRIBUTORS: Alphanim Distribution (TV, home video,
international licensing), Jetix Consumer Products (licensing for Europe, the
Middle East and Africa), Exim Licensing (licensing for Latin America), Empire
International (licensing for Southeast Asia).

CREATORS: Augias Imagination Collectif Auteurs

TV SHOW: Galactik Football started airing globally at the same
time as another global event: the 2006 FIFA World Cup. With state-of-the-art
graphic designs and a futuristic look reflecting today’s latest trends, the mix
of 2-D and 3-D animation techniques provides a stunning show.

You’ve watched
a football match, but have you ever seen it played with a mystic flux force?
Aliens, Wambas, Technoids and boys and girls all compete in this ultimate
sci-fi sports series and play the kind of football kids can only dream of. One
team with an assortment of players, the Snow Kids, has its own secret weapon
player, cool girls, dynamo striker and a pair of goofy dudes who make it all
look so easy.

Twenty six
half-hours are currently on air and 26 half-hours are in production, scheduled
for delivery in the spring of 2008. Devised and produced in Paris by Alphanim’s
in-house team, Galactik Football is a vibrant mix of 2D-animated storytelling with 3D-CGI football
action. Challenged with making the football sequences feel both realistic and
extreme at the same time, Alphanim used motion capture to replicate the moves
of real professional footballers, acrobatic stunt experts and character actors.
Animators enhanced this data, creating the incredible ball-handling and sky-high
leaps.

EXECUTIVE
PRODUCERS: Christian
Davin, Clément Calvet

COMMISSIONING
BROADCASTER: Jetix
Europe, France 2

TV SALES: Season one has been licensed to France
2 (France); RTL 2 (Germany); FORTA (Spain); SIC (Portugal); RTBF, SBS/VT4
(Belgium); Jetix Europe, India and Latin America; SRC (Canada); Rede Record
(Brazil); EBS, Nickelodeon (South Korea); NAT7 (Malaysia); Kids Central
(Singapore); LATIVI (Indonesia), among others.

CONSUMER
PRODUCTS: StudioCanal
(France), Divisa Red (Spain) and Foreign Media (the Netherlands), among others,
have released the complete first season on DVD. Bonuses include the “Making of Galactik
Football,” which
reveals how the hi-tech football kicks and moves were shot.

While the Galactik
Football
interactive-gaming product line is currently set for release in 2008,
publishers Jungle and Hachette have respectively acquired the comic book and
novelization rights to the property. The Cookie Company (apparel), Marissa Home
Textiles, Caresse Cosmetics and CCI (footwear) are among the key European
licensees. A fast-food promotion will also take place this summer in France and
Belgium.

STRATEGY
FOR ROLLOUT: French
DTT channel GULLI acquired the show earlier this year and will start airing it
in the spring of 2008. The GULLI slot, along with broadcast on France 2 and
Jetix, will give the show maximum exposure at the time of the UEFA Euro 2008
Championship. TV5 Monde is also giving the show worldwide exposure in the
French language this year.

Since its
launch across Europe in 2006, Galactik Football has been a number one show on Jetix
U.K., Spain and Greece, among others, and one of the key shows for the network,
consistently attracting a strong share of audience and regularly entering the
Top 10 programs across Europe.

In its first
month on TeleMadrid in Spain, Galactik Football was broadcast four times and achieved
successful ratings and audience shares. It ranked as the number one most
watched program on the free-to-air channel for June 2006, rating over 360
percent above the channel average.

On Germany’s
RTL 2, Galactik Football rated above the average of all children's programs during the
first quarter of 2007. The channel ran the show twice in the first semester of
2007.

Alphanim and
its EMEA agent, JCP, will drive the international licensing program and exploit
all product categories leveraging the enthusiasm and interest generated by
major football events worldwide such as the upcoming UEFA Euro 2008 event and
football in general. Ahead of which, season two will be delivered to
broadcasters internationally.