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Thursday, October 29th, 1998 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs FineLine Properties is a Business "First" for Marvel Comics Marvel Comics, creators of the Hulk, Spiderman, and other cartoon characters have done something they have not done in 75 years of existence. They have contracted with an outside firm, FineLine Properties, Inc. (FLP) of Kent, Ohio to introduce new lines of characters in special arrangements with Marvel Entertainment Group. How big is cartooning and merchandising? "It is a 130 Billion dollar a year industry, with extremely good projections" states Bob Petry of FLP. "Our position in this expansive market is well established by the national and international clientele we have served for 10 years. The release of FineLine Properties stock now publicly trading under NASDAQ Bulletin Board: FNLN in late October further clarifies our position as a major provider in this cartoon and merchandising industry." The hottest ticket right now at FineLine is sports. "Of major industry importance is our line of 61 sports characters in FineLine Sports. As you see with Hoopsters on our website, these popular characters' names are actually hip, cool, widely known words used in each sport respectively. The characters are for use in merchandising in major sports lines such as the NBA, NFL, NHL, Soccer -- NPSL, and MLB," Mr. Petry explains. If you haven't heard of Moodies, Soft, Tasties, Hoopsters and Hoggsturrs yet, you will in the future because of FineLine Properties' agreement with Marvel. Moodies are targeted for television in their own series and have appeared on over 450 licensed products including Kellogg's, Wendy's, Densu Advertising and many international projects such as corporate spokesperson for Daiwa Securities of Tokyo. InteliHealth.com Website to Host Online Contest InteliHealth, a source of consumer health information on the Internet, announced that it will give away a free trip for two (2) to A Woman's Journey-- Johns Hopkins Medicine's premiere national women's health care symposium, to be held on Saturday, November 21, 1998 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland -- as part of its ongoing event coverage via the Internet. To enter the contest, women will be asked to submit a 100-250 word short story, essay or poem that answers the question: "How has the Internet changed your life?" Submissions will be accepted from October 31 through November 16 at 5:00PM. The winning entry will be selected based on creativity, originality and quality of writing. The winner's name, along with selected entries, will be posted on the InteliHealth website. The winner will receive a free roundtrip (coach-class airfare) for 2 to Baltimore, Maryland, hotel accommodations (double occupancy) for two nights at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel and VIP status for the event. Details on how to enter the contest and the contest rules can be found at www.intelihealth.com. "We are dedicated to using the Internet to bring important advances in medical science to as broad an audience as possible," said Bob Pringle, president of InteliHealth. "This year we are pleased to expand the reach of A Woman's Journey through our comprehensive Internet coverage as well as providing an opportunity for web surfers to experience this important event first hand." InteliHealth's coverage of A Woman's Journey will include online transcripts of selected events and live audio broadcasts via the Internet. More than 1,000 women will attend 44 distinct seminars, each presented by the faculty of Johns Hopkins Medicine. The event explores women's physical and mental health issues from breast cancer to sexual relationships. Registrations for the event are still being accepted. Registration information is available online via www.intelihealth.com/journey/. TNT Roughcut.com's Screenplay Challenge Continues Beginning November 20, 1998, TNT's Roughcut.com hosts The Screenplay Challenge, a 10-week online round-robin screenwriting project that allows contributors to continue an original screenplay started by Hollywood screenwriter Pen Densham (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Moll Flanders, Backdraft). The Screenplay Challenge is the second in a series of Screenplay Challenges. The first contest, launched on July 17, 1998 received more than 1000 submissions from Web users. Roughcut.com will continue to challenge Web users, exploring a different film genre with a top-notch professional screenwriter each quarter. For the upcoming Screenplay Challenge, aspiring screenwriters will have the opportunity to collaborate with Pen Densham, producer and director of TNT's upcoming Original film Houdini (premiering December 6, at 8 p.m. ET/PT). On November 20, Densham will post the first chapter of an original screenplay exclusive to the Roughcut.com site. These first pages will introduce the characters and set the direction for the film. Each week, a panel of judges will select the best submission and post that chapter on the site. In addition to the opportunity to collaborate with Densham and publish online, each winner will be awarded $100.00 and the chance to win the Grand Prize -- a new laptop computer from which to write his or her next screenplay. Densham will write the final chapter. The final screenplay will total between 100 and 120 pages -- the standard length for a feature film -- and will be available online for fans to read. TNT Roughcut.com has posted the complete rules and regulations for the Screenplay Challenge and a submission form at http://www.roughcut.com. Body-Mind QueenDom Launches Emotional Intelligence Test Body-Mind QueenDom, an offbeat serious-entertainment site, is launching a new addition to its battery of 20 free online personality and intelligence tests (all the tests are validated, with the psychometric properties and norms posted on the site). Their new Emotional IQ (EIQ) test is an instrument that assesses this much-talked-about aspect of intellect popularized by Daniel Goleman in his 1995 bestseller. The most popular feature on Body-Mind QueenDom is the vast collection of original psychological tests scored on-line (tests on relationship satisfaction, jealousy, depression, self-esteem, anxiety, social anxiety, communication skills, coping with stress, assertiveness, sales personality, type A personality, optimism, introversion/extroversion, locus of control, PMS, classical IQ, EIQ, burnout and lifestyle). For the relentless test lovers, BMQ has Test Junkie, a huge collection of links to various tests on the Internet. The recently launched polls (Cyberia’s Poll and Sex-A-Poll) also provide an arena for interactive learning. For those who want to train their brain muscle, this site offers Mind-Stretching full of challenging puzzles. Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter.  www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
