Nickelodeon News Round-Up - Issue 18: Global Edition

Below is a round-up of aweslime Nickelodeon International news!

To make the 2015 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, Nickelodeon's 28th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards, the biggest and slimiest ever, Nick needs your help! Nickelodeon wants to know what YOU'RE into and they're looking to YOU to help them decide what will happen at KCA 2015! Head to www.kca2015.com and tell Nick all about your favorite music, video games, celebrity's, and more!

Nickelodeon Russia and CIS (Nickelodeon Россия and СНГ) today, Saturday 7th February 2015, started to premiere and show Nickelodeon's brand-new original comedy series "Henry Danger" ("Опасный Генри") at 16:45 (МСК)!

Additionally, Nickelodeon Russia and CIS also started to premiere "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" ("Черепашки-ниндзя) season 3 today at 18:40 (МСК)! To celebrate, Nick Russia & CIS aired a special TMNT marathon leading up to the debut of the first episode of the all-new third season of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"!

Nickelodeon France will start to premiere and show season two of Nickelodeon's hit superhero-themed original comedy series "The Thundermans", locally titled "Les Thunderman", from Monday 9th February 2015 at 19h40! NickHeads located in France can view a exclusive sneak-peek preview of "The Thundermans" season two here on nickelodeon.fr!

Additionally, Nickelodeon 4Teen will start to air more brand-new episodes of "iCarly", including "iGo One Direction", guest starring One Direction, from Monday 9th February 2015 at 18h55! Fans in France can watch a sneak-peek video clip of "iGo One Direction" here on Nickelodeon.fr!

Nickelodeon France will also be holding a special "Choose Your Own Ending" ("A toi de choisir la fin") programming stunt on Friday 21st February 2015 at 18:05 on Nick and 18:35 on Nick 4Teen! Similar to Nick USA's special in 2014, "Choose Your Own Ending" will be a one-night only event that's putting viewers in charge of how brand-new episodes of "The Thundermans" ("Les Thunderman") and "The Haunted Hathaways" ("3 fantômes chez les Hathaway") will end! NickHeads can cast their votes at Nickelodeon.fr to decide the fates of the characters and then watch to see which endings win! Plus, NickHeads can get prepped for what they should choose with some videos, sneak peeks and even photos! This night is gonna be AWESLIME!

Nickelodeon Italy (Italia) will premiere and show Nickelodeon's "Kids' Choice Awards 2015" awards ceremony, Nickelodeon's 28th Annual Kids' Choice Awards, in April 2015!

Nickelodeon Spain (Espana) will start to premiere and show more brand-new episodes of "The Thundermans" ("Los Thundermans") from Monday 9th February 2015 at 21:00 H!

Nickelodeon Spain will also be holding a "Choose Your Own Ending" programming stunt, locally titled "Tú Eliges El Final", in which NickHeads can choose the endings of brand-new episodes of "The Thundermans" ("Los Thundermans") and "The Haunted Hathaways" ("Las Hathaways entre fantasmas"), in February 2015!

Nickelodeon Greece will be holding a special "Kids In Action" conference on Tuesday 17th February 2015. Visit kids-in-action.gr for more information.

Nickelodeon Latin America have launched a brand-new blog called Trendy By Nick!

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NickToons USA To Premiere New "Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL" Episodes From Sunday 8th February 2015

Like monsters? Like cards? Like monsters jumping out of cards?

Then bust out the Happy Pants, as Nickelodeon USA has announced in a brand-new trailer/promo, below, that the networks animation and action channel, NickToons USA, will start to premiere and show more brand-new episodes of the popular anime series "Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL", featuring all-new sick duels, fans going cray-cray and extra humor, from Sunday 8th February 2015 at 10:30am ET/PT!



"Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL" is the third main spin-off series of the hit "Yu-Gi-Oh!" franchise.

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"The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water" Dominates US Box Office Upon Opening On Friday 6th February 2015

The entertainment industry news websites The Hollywood Reporter and Variety are reporting the fantastic Nickelodeon Movies news that Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Animation's brand-new "SpongeBob SquarePants" movie, "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water", is soaring at the North American box office, soaking up an estimated $15.1 million on the day of the films release, Friday 6th February 2015, from 3,641 theaters for a impressive $52 million opening weekend, well ahead of most industry projections of a $35 million launch!

"The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water", Nick and Paramount's second "SpongeBob SquarePants" movie, is easily trouncing new big-budget entries "Jupiter Ascending" and "Seventh Son". To boot, it will steal the top perch from reigning champion "American Sniper"!

"SpongeBob" will finish only 25% behind the impressive $69 million launch of Warner's "The Lego Movie", which opened on the same weekend in 2014.

"SpongeBob" scored well with reviewers, racking up a 74% fresh rating on the Rotten Tomatoes site. It achieved a "B" grade from Cinema Score; 50% of the audience was under 18 and gave the film an A- score.

Additionally, the $74 million family title made a nice splash last weekend overseas, where it grossed $8 million from its first five territories - Taiwan, Iceland, Mexico, Belgium and Holland.

"Out of Water" opens eleven years after "The Spongebob SquarePants Movie" played in theaters in 2004, grossing north of $130 million globally. The first film was directed by Stephen Hillenburg, creator of the television show. This time, series writer and executive producer Paul Tibbitt directs, with regular cast members Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Carolyn Lawrence and Mr. Lawrence reprising their roles. The movie also stars Antonio Banderas as the villainous pirate Burger Beard, "The IT Crowd" star Matt Berry as the voice of Bubbles, and former former Guns N' Roses lead guitarist Slash as himself.

"The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water" will be released in Digital 3D and 2D in cinemas across the UK on Friday 20th March 2015!

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Hang Out With SpongeBob And His Bikini Bottom Buddies Plus Win Sponge-Tastic Prizes During February 2015 Half-Term On NickToons UK

Hang out with SpongeBob and his Bikini Bottom Buddies plus win Sponge-Tastic prizes this February half-term on NickToons UK!

Nickelodeon UK, the number one commercial kids TV network in the UK, has announced in their brand new trailer the very exciting Nick UK News that, to celebrate the February 2015 British and Irish school half-term/mid-term holiday break, Nicktoons UK and Ireland, Nick UK's animation and action channel, will be hosting a brand new "SpongeBob SquarePants"-themed programming block called "SpongeBob Bottom Buddies", in which NickToons will be showing back-to-back episodes of Nickelodeon's hit original animated series (Nicktoon) "SpongeBob SquarePants" everyday between 9:00am and 1:00pm between Monday 16th and Sunday 22nd February 2015!

Plus, as part of "SpongeBob Bottom Buddies", NickToons will be holding a special "SpongeBob Bottom Buddies" competition which will be giving viewers the chance to win fantastic "SpongeBob SquarePants" playsets from Simba and Smyths, including of the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob's Pineapple house, Squidward's Easter Island Head, Patrick's Rock, and a Pirate Ship, which they can share with their friends! To be in with the chance to win these great "SpongeBob" prizes for you and your friends, simply 'toon in and watch "SpongeBob Bottom Buddies" everyday between 10am and 1pm on NickToons this February half-term then head online to the contests official website on nicktoons.co.uk to answer the competitions question!

Additional source: Digiguide.

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Nick Jr. UK To Premiere Brand-New Show "Blaze and the Monster Machines" On Friday 6th March 2015

Buckle up for Nick Jr. UK's brand-new show!

UPDATE: Nick Jr. UK will premiere "Blaze and the Monster Machines" with the special hour-long episode "Blaze of Glory" on Friday 6th March 2015 at 4:00pm (repeated at 5:00pm on Nick Jr. +1)! Following the series debut, Nick Jr. UK will continue to air all-new episodes of "Blaze and the Monster Machines" weekdays at 4:00pm (repeated at 5:00pm on Nick Jr. +1).

Nick Jr. UK has announced the exciting news on the channels recently launched official "Blaze and the Monster Machines" show website the exciting news that Nickelodeon UK's preschool channel, Nick Jr. UK and Ireland, will start to premiere and show "Blaze and the Monster Machines", Nickelodeon's brand-new CG-animated preschool series that will introduce viewers to the exciting world of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), on Monday 9th March 2015 at 10:00am (repeated at 11:00am on Nick Jr. +1) Friday 6th March 2015 at 4:00pm (repeated at 5:00pm on Nick Jr. +1)!

The first preschool show on TV to comprehensively cover all areas of STEM in every episode, "Blaze and the Monster Machines" follows the amazing monster truck Blaze and his eight-year-old driver AJ and builds upon Nick Jr.'s legacy of providing curriculum-enriched preschool programming.

With the help of the audience at home, Blaze and AJ have adventures that explore the physics of how things move; tackle problems through scientific inquiry and mathematics; and discover the component parts needed to make everyday technologies work. Each action-packed episode is filled with monster trucks, physical humor and upbeat original songs with lyrics that highlight a STEM concept such as adhesion, friction, force, trajectory and magnetism. The series is created by Jeff Borkin ("Team Umizoomi" head writer) and Ellen Martin ("Bubble Guppies" supervising producer).

Blaze is Axle City's greatest hero and the champion of the racetrack! Whenever there's trouble he's the truck everyone turns to for help because he can do things no other truck can. Blaze has Blazing Speed, a special turbo boost that lets him accelerate and go faster than any other monster machine. But Blaze has more than just speed. He also has the power to transform into any other vehicle or machine! Using his engineering knowledge Blaze can add new parts to himself and change into anything. From a hydrofoil to a hang glider to even a hair dryer, if you can engineer it, Blaze can become it!

Nick Junior UK's official "Blaze and the Monster Machines" webpage features information about the series and each of the characters in the show - Blaze, AJ, Gabby, Crusher, Pickle, Darington, Starla, Stripes and Zeg - plus a 'Watch' section featuring exclusive online streaming video clips from episodes of "Blaze and the Monster Machines", and a fantastic 'Create' area full of fantastic colouring in sheets!

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