DISNEY
CHANNEL’S
HIGHEST
RATED
ORIGINAL
MOVIE
AVAILABLE
FOR THE
FIRST TIME
ON DVD
JUMP IN!
FREESTYLE
EDITION
Pop-Hopping
onto DVD
April 3 in
time for
Easter
Starring
High School
Musical’s
Corbin Bleu
and
Keke Palmer
in her
Disney
Channel
Debut
Includes the
Exclusive
Bonus
Materials
“Learning
the Moves”
with Corbin
Bleu and
“JUMPIN,”A
Music Video
Featuring
Keke Palmer
BURBANK,
Calif.,
DRAFT –
Disney
Channel’s
highest
rated
original
movie will
debut on
Disney DVD
April 3,
2007. Jump
In!
Freestyle
Edition will
be release
just in time
for Easter.
Starring
Corbin Bleu
(HIGH SCHOOL
MUSICAL) and
Keke Palmer
(AKEELAH AND
THE BEE) in
her Disney
Channel
debut, JUMP
IN! is a
coming-of-age
story about
Brooklyn
teenager
Izzy Daniels
(Bleu) whose
father
dreams of
him becoming
a champion
boxer. When
his neighbor
Mary
(Palmer)
asks him to
substitute
for a jumper
on her
double Dutch
team in time
for the city
championship,
Izzy jumps
in and
discovers a
passion for
the world of
competitive
jump roping.
Rounding out
the
primarily
African-American
cast are
David
Reivers
(POSEIDON)
and Shanica
Knowles
(HANNAH
MONTANA).
Filled with
exciting
bonus
features,
the JUMP IN!
DVD includes
the
exclusive
“Learning
the Moves”,
in which
Corbin Bleu
hosts an
instructional
Double Dutch
jump rope
video so
fans can
learn the
moves at
home, a an
exclusive
pop-hop
music video,
“Jumpin’”
from the
movie’s
soundtrack
performed by
Keke Palmer.
Rounding out
the bonus
features is
a music
video from
rising pop
sensation
T-Squad
performing
their song
“Vertical”
and a
making-of
featurette
“Inside the
Ropes.”
JUMP IN!
premiered on
Disney
Channel on
January 12,
2007 with
highest ever
DCOM ratings
in Total
Viewers (8.2
Million) and
Kids 6-11
(3.7
million/15.2
rating), and
the
second-most-watched
DCOM ever in
Tweens 9-14
(3.4
million/14.0
rating).
In target
demos Kids
6-11 and
Tweens 9-14,
“Jump In!”
finished as
TV’s
most-watched
program for
the entire
day
(broadcast
and basic
cable).
It was
directed by
Paul Hoen
(SOUTH OF
NOWHERE and
READ IT AND
WEEP) and
written by
Doreen
Spicer
(Disney’s
THE PROUD
FAMILY), and
Regina Hicks
and Karin
Gist
(GIRLFRIENDS).
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Home
Entertainment
is
distributed
by Buena
Vista
Worldwide
Home
Entertainment,
Inc., a
recognized
industry
leader.
Buena Vista
Worldwide
Home
Entertainment,
Inc. is the
marketing,
sales and
distribution
company for
Walt Disney,
Touchstone,
Hollywood
Pictures,
Miramax,
Dimension
and Buena
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videocassettes
and DVDs