Jay Jay the Jet Plane Takes Off for the Big Screen

LOS ANGELES,
June 30: PorchLight Entertainment, the
producer and distributor of the preschool series, Jay Jay The Jet Plane, and India’s UTV will produce the feature-length
animated movie, Jay Jay’s Race Around The World.

Pre-production on the
movie is set to begin in October at UTV’s state- of-the-art facilities UTV
Toons Studios and at PorchLight Animation in Los Angeles. Jay Jay’s Race
Around The World is slated for
release in 4th quarter of 2007.

“This is the next step in
globally maximizing the Jay Jay
brand,” said Bruce Johnson, PorchLight’s CEO and the executive producer of Jay
Jay the Jet Plane. We took the success of Jay Jay on PBS and grew it into a recognizable licensing
brand. We then leveraged the brand to support multilevel product lines and
Internet marketing efforts both domestically and internationally. Now, having
added new characters, new storylines and the PBS Sprout platform to the series,
it’s logical to align ourselves with the talents of UTV and produce Jay Jay in a long- form format.”

According to Ronnie Screwvala, UTV’s CEO “Jay Jay’s worldwide success as a series and a brand, as
evidenced by its popularity alone on our Hungama kids channel, gave us the
impetus to work with PorchLight on this project. We have the creative team, the
talent and high-end 3D technology to deliver what we hope will be the first of
many Jay Jay movies.”