4Kids relayed a batch of new Pokemon news at their recent shareholders meeting. The rundown of interesting facts was:<\/p>\n
The Pok\u00e9mon 2000 movie will hit theaters July 21. The home video will be released on November 21, 2000. A “very major” celebrity will sing on the Pok\u00e9mon 2000 soundtrack.<\/p>\n
Pok\u00e9mon the Third Movie (the real name is secret) will be released in summer 2001.<\/p>\n
A Pok\u00e9mon stage show will debut at Radio City Music Hall and embark on a 40-city tour sometime before the third Pok\u00e9mon movie.<\/p>\n
56 new Pok\u00e9mon “Gold and Silver” episodes will air on Kids WB starting September 2000.<\/p>\n
7 million home videos of the first Pok\u00e9mon movie have sold in the U.S. since March 20, 2000. Pok\u00e9mon vitamins now outsell Flintstones vitamins. Kellogg’s Pok\u00e9mon cereal is the top selling cereal in Kellogg’s history.<\/p>\n
The first Pok\u00e9mon movie is showing in 60 countries. It broke the all-time box office record in Israel.<\/p>\n
Pok\u00e9mon was broadly introduced to Europe only 7 months ago. Since then, 70% of German children have purchased a Pok\u00e9mon product. There are more Pok\u00e9mon cards per child in Germany than in any other country, including the U.S. and Japan.<\/p>\n
4Kids also spoke out about several upcoming animated series. 4Kids has purchased Tama and Friends, a precursor to Hello Kitty. Network negotiations are not complete, but which network will show it will be named soon. It has been described as another series with many cute characters. Toonzone stated after seeing short segments, “fairly entertaining, though the theme song was annoying.” 4Kids and Daiwon of Korea have teamed up to produce 26 episodes of Cubix, a mecha action CGI show that takes place in the year 2040. The story was described as, “Everyone on Earth owns a robot, which can be programmed to be good or evil, according to the tendencies of its human master. Aliens hide a special energy force in one particular robot owned by a young boy. This energy source gives the robot extraordinary powers. The show will feature two running, intertwining plot devices: good (the boy and his robot) vs. evil, and the aliens’ search for their lost power source.” It will be launched simultaneously in the US and Japan.<\/p>\n