• Hannah Montana: The Movie rakes in US$34 million on opening weekend (New York Times)
• Hasbro’s strong shares make the toyco one to watch (BloggingStocks)
• Even with weak sales, teen retailers improve outlook (Reuters)
• And though retail sales were up slightly in February, March isn’t looking too hot (Washington Post)
• Use your Nintendo DS to shop around Tokyo Disneyland (Kotaku)
• Who you gonna call? Dan Aykroyd on Ghostbusters III the video game (Newsweek)
• Star Wars: A Musical Journey reviewed (Times Online)
• How Pottermania contributed to Twilight‘s success (Examiner)
• Tween fashion takes a modest turn to being fashionable without going over the top (L.A. Times)
• Nike opens first kid-centric outlet store (Pittsburgh Business Times)
• Sears pushes advertising on Kidvantage program (AdAge)
• Marketers tap into the ‘warm and fuzzy’ nostalgia elements of ads past (New York Times)
• Can Blockbuster stay in business? (Boston Globe)
• Welsh school makes way for Muggle Quidditch à la Harry Potter (News Wales)
• What does the ‘i’ stand for in the Nintendo DSi, anyway? (Kotaku)
• Euro retail sales continue to dive (Wall Street Journal)
• YouTube in discussions with Sony Pictures to acquire full-length movie content (CNet News)
• Profit watchers are wary about the commercial potential of Disney/Pixar’s Up (New York Times)
• How The Force continues to capture the minds of young Jedi (Slate)
• Twilight Mania infects more fans as conventions sweep the US (The Examiner)
• Coffeehouse concerts are opening their doors to kids, too (Boston Globe)
• The House of Mouse zeroes in on 3-D opps for future film rollout… (Associated Press)
• …meanwhile, Disney Interactive Studios bring Pixar to the forefront of its games (GamesIndustry.biz)
• Netflix raises the price on Blu-ray rentals (L.A. Times)
• Monsters vs. Aliens Wii game reviewed (Wired/GeekDad)
• If you reenacted a scene from Alien in a cuddly way, it might look like this (Gizmodo)
• With GDC now over, what’s next for video game developers? (New York Times)
• No more Hannah Montana movies, says Miley (Associated Press)
• A look at live action roleplay for kids (Wired/GeekDad)
• Bloomsbury still holds up in the post-Harry Potter era (BBC News)
• Twilight already tops DVD sales so far this year (Reuters/THR)
• Toy retailers already cautious about Christmas 2009 (Dallas Morning News/AP)
• How children’s apparel retailers can stay afloat (DMNews)
• Going console-free could be the game industry’s wave of the future (Kotaku)
• Disney and YouTube join forces on content (PC World)
• Watch out for those fire-breathing robot babies in Japan (CScout Japan)
• And imagine the kid content opps that await you on the Hotelicopter (Gizmodo)
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