If you’re in the market for a new stock pick to broaden your portfolio, then you may want to be on the lookout for the newly-minted LION ticket. From May 2024, Lionsgate Studios will be trading as a separate public company on the NASDAQ ex…

The end of 2023 saw many gloomy mutterings about losing all the ground the box office recovery gained through the year in a 2024 inevitably hampered by a throttled content pipeline. A rather slow start to the 2024 box office didn’t do much…

While the Chinese film-going market has always had a sweet spot for animations, it has been a slow market for Hollywood releases since the pandemic. Despite that general slow-down in the international film arena, the latest Studio Ghibli a…

One of the driving trends we saw in 2023 was the expansion of many streamers and studios into original non-English content. Now, the Cannes Film Festival has announced a new marketplace to help foster and encourage English-language adaptat…

Despite their overall revenue remaining relatively stable, the beleaguered National CineMedia group has managed to grow its fourth-quarter profit off the back of a strong Q4 performance from the domestic box office despite recent bankruptc…

At a time when much speculation hangs over the company as a whole, Paramount Global has now sold its 13% stake in Viacom18 to Mumbai-based Reliance Industries, its major shareholder. Whatever this means for the future plans around Paramoun…

It is no secret at this point that ad-supported streaming tiers have become the revenue lifeline streaming didn’t realize it needed. For many streamers, this shift into ad-supported programming has been coupled with an overall reduction in…

Are we entering the era of the ‘great rebundling’? It is a question we have seen play out in several forms over the 2023 year, and it is clearly one weighing on the mind of AMC Networks’ CFO, Patrick O’Connell, too. Brandon Blake, our ente…

While we have seen much jockeying for limited subscriber market share in the wider streaming space, Roku has continued to slowly build on its FAST TV presence, boosted mainly by its range of Smart TV and set-top box options. It seems there…

While the winding-down of the first uninterrupted Awards Season we’ve seen in a while may be occupying headlines, we’re also entering the full swing of the 2024 Festival Season. Perennial favorite, the Berlin International Film Festival, k…

Sometimes, it’s less about the big noisy splashes than the quiet, steady drips. For the current slate at the specialty box office, that’s becoming very apparent. Two Oscar hopefuls, Poor Things and American Fiction, are quietly leaving the…

The password-sharing crackdown continues! With Netflix having done a complete 180 on the subject, and Disney+ also changing its subscriber agreement to disallow sharing, its little duckling Hulu is now following suit. Our Blake & Wang P.A.…

The last quarter of 2023 was a good one for Comcast, according to their Q4 earnings report. With an unexpected boost to revenue leading to a revised dividend offering for the quarter, we even saw some positive movement for their struggling…

Sometimes smaller really is better. Fresh off a festive season run that was nothing short of spectacular for its size, Studio Ghibli’s GKids studio title, The Boy and the Heron, continues to knock through records for the anime and animatio…

If you’re keen to enjoy one of the hottest titles of this Award Season race on SVOD, you finally have the chance. Apple’s decision to move Killers of the Flower Moon to its streaming service is, no doubt, in hopes of capturing a little mor…

In the wider Asia-Pacific region, we’ve seen a massive growth spike for online video and streaming, topping out at $145B in revenue. Yet this interest doesn’t extend to old-school TV itself, especially in monetization and engagement. Today…

Lionsgate and Starz will be officially parted this year, in a $4.6B deal that will see the studio and its 20,000-strong library of titles separate from Starz entirely. Blake & Wang P.A. entertainment lawyer, Brandon Blake, shares the news.…