With most of the buzz around Spiderman: No Way Home centering on its remarkable box office performance, what of its home release? Blake & Wang P.A’s industry specialist and entertainment lawyer, Brandon Blake has some stats for us. Brandon…

It’s been a big week for agency-focused news. Not to be done out of their own press time, UTA had announced their acquisition of entertainment, tech, and media strategic advisory firm, MediaLink, this week. Brandon Blake, the entertainment…

CJ ENM is best known as the Seoul-based distributor of the remarkable Oscar winner, Parasite. Now, it seems, they’re also part of ViacomCBS’s strategy to make their Asian debut. Entertainment attorney from Blake & Wang P.A, Brandon Blake, …

Like it or loathe it, this has been a year of massive innovation for the cryptocurrency market. A key part of those innovations was the launch of NFTs, heavily sold to us as a way to preserve digital assets and authenticate ownership via t…

It’s family all the way, judging by this Thanksgiving Box Office Weekend’s takings. Racking up $142M in total Box Office ticket sales, we see Encanto lead a family-friendly pack which, while not as robust as some pre-COVID years, is nothin…

At a time where Hollywood and the Chinese market find themselves in an uneasy flux, we’ve seen the China Film Administration announce its new 5-year plan. What will this mean for the film market at large? Entertainment attorney Brandon Bla…

Is non-fiction the next big entertainment boom? We only need to take a peek at the latest offering on any streamer to see that the answer is yes. The question that matters most to the entertainment industry, however, is why? We asked Brand…

In a spate of less-than-stellar Q3 revenue reports, Roku almost joins the pack, yet a peak in other key metrics has kept the Stock Market interested despite this low-key result. Just last week we saw the over-the-top streaming device giant…

HBO and HBO Max have decided Formosa will be their new home if current developments are anything to go by. This week we see them enter a long-term lease with the CIM Group, granting them exclusive use of a wide range of production real est…

With an apparent rally at the theatrical Box Office no one quite expected, where to from here? WarnerMedia has now clarified how releases will work for its 2022 slate, so we turned to Blake & Wang P.A’s top entertainment attorney, Brand Bl…

In the age of streaming, are TV ads dead? Surprisingly, the data seems to suggest otherwise. We turned to entertainment lawyer, Brandon Blake, for some insight. Brandon blake Undoubtedly, the upfronts from this year were remarkable. All th…

Squid Games has managed to grab the whole world’s attention, or so it seems. The new Korean drama series has taken the world by storm, and in doing so earned Netflix some serious potential to break standing records. Brandon Blake, the ente…

Sony’s first Marvel property to be released in the pandemic era, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, was released last Thursday, with expectations of opening at $40M-$50M. The actuality blew Black Widow’s opening weekend Box Office pandemic recor…

It’s official. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings have beaten out Black Widow to become the biggest movie of the year. Due to the suppressed 2020 Box Office, this also makes it the highest-grossing domestic release of the pandemic. …

Brandon Blake- Managing Partner at Blake & Wang P.A.Disney has finally spoken- and it is in favor of theater exclusivity for its upcoming releases. While this development would have been very unexpected until the last month or so, it’s inc…

In more encouraging theatrical news, Shang-Chi has worked its audience-pulling magic for more than just Disney. With attendance topping out at more than 2 million people for AMC theaters alone over the Labor Day weekend, it’s a new record-…

Jungle Cruise has been a pleasant surprise in the box office landscape since its release, performing decently in theaters and finding itself as one of Disney’s first releases to run for a month-long theatrical release before heading to str…

As concerns over the fast-spreading Delta variant start to dominate the news again, we see the American Film Market opt to take its entire 2021 edition online-only. We turned to Brandon Blake, an entertainment attorney with decades of expe…

Cinemas haven’t had the easiest 18 months, but many have rallied in unexpectedly buoyant ways over the last quarter. Just this week we’ve seen Landmark Theaters take on a brand-new long-term lease for the historic Scottsdale Quarter luxury…

Despite a 59% drop in revenue for the six months to June, exhibition giant Cineworld this week announced that they are considering a U.S stock market listing, either for Cineworld itself or Regal as a stand-alone company. It was a strangel…

Given the hostile crowd reaction to the original, the newly-released James Gunn Suicide Squad remake seemed set to bust the Box Office in a way that’s been scarce since the Delta Variant started turning theatergoers away again. With the op…

Disney’s current ‘in theaters, but also on Disney+’ release strategy has been hotly debated across the board. Jungle Cruise, however, seems to be doing ok theatrically despite this controversy. We asked our resident entertainment attorney,…

Whilst once a strong contender for the most overlooked genre on the Hollywood radar, those days are over. With horror as the new hot contender for indie and mainstream producers alike, and Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead leading the charge,…

Last week our resident entertainment attorney, Brandon Blake, took a look at the intricacies of the new Universal pay-one cycle. This week, we see the first post-pay-one announcement from Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG), contin…

News broke this week that Disney+ has gained another million subscribers between February and July this year. Despite that fantastic gain, however, a look at the holistic picture suggests their overall growth may have plateaued. BLAKE & WA…

It’s that time of the year again. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nominated 395 executives and artists of the film industry to join their ranks. From the viewpoint of diversity, there’s some interesting developments, bu…

Tampering with the ownership of Channel 4 doesn’t seem to be the only thing on the Boris Johnson-lead UK government’s mind. In addition to targeting one of the country’s most successful public broadcasting-focused channels for no real reas…

With the recent release of Nielsen’s new measurement (ominously called ‘The Gauge’), we’re able to finally see how the market is positioning itself amid cable, broadcast, and streaming. Yet the results aren’t quite what we expected! BLAKE …

Despite 4 weeks of intense bargaining, it appears the negotiations between IATSE, representing film, TV, and stage actors, and AMPTP for new contracts has broken off. This despite the fact their contracts will expire at the end of July. BL…

HBO Max, through its parent WarnerMedia, has finally released its own AVOD streaming service, launching last week with the bold promise to be the AVOD service with the “lowest commercial ad load in the streaming industry.” With AVOD models…