Nick sponges spotlight

Upcoming pix touted to friends, fans, merch clients

By JILL GOLDSMITH

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Voice talent Bill Faggerbakke (Patrick Starfish), left, with Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants).

 

With an impressive three pics in the hopper and its 25th anniversary at hand, Nickelodeon feted itself Tuesday night, and rightfully so. The group that already owns kids' TV presented feature film clips from "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie," "The Barnyard" and "Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events" to friends, fans and scores of merchandising clients who trooped to the dim and funky Roxy by the West Side Highway in Chelsea from the Licensing Show -- just upriver at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

This is the biggest cluster yet of Nick pics and, noted Nick topper Herb Scannell, the first with a bona fide star in "Lemony Snicket's" Jim Carrey. Nick and Paramount Pictures co-produced that one with DreamWorks.

When Dreamteam Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald told their son they were making a film of the beloved kids' book, "He said, 'That's great, Dad. Just don't screw it up,' " said Parkes.