In prior years, we’ve seen certain box office films choose to ask Comscore to collect box office grosses but not release them. It’s a tactic we most see on pictures looking to score a quick award-qualification run, but it’s also been used …

National Cinema Day, hoping to help bring crowds back to the box office with discounted tickets, concessions, and other goodies, ran in 2022 and 2023, skipping its 2024 edition. While it seems the now-familiar format won’t be back (officia…

Things are looking up significantly for the US’s second-largest movie theater chain. With the rocky road of post-COVID recovery still a reality for most theatrical chains, a full industry recovery has been elusive. Last week, news broke th…

As the world continues to look for more durable and eco-friendly products or elements, lab grown diamonds are certainly making people reconsider how wealth and luxury are viewed in the jewelry industry. But these synthetic gems are as beau…

There’s positive news from Louisiana. Well, somewhat positive, anyway. Instead of entirely removing their tax incentives for productions made in the state, lawmakers have instead opted to maintain the program, albeit with a strong reductio…

Lionsgate and About: Blank Productions, the brainchild of Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence, has entered a new strategic partnership. Our industry insider and entertainment attorney, Blake & Wang P.A.’s Brandon Blake, has all the deta…

Disney's latest annual report reveals plans for a $24B content investment in the fiscal year 2025, marking a slight increase from their 2024 spend of $23.4 billion. However, this uptick primarily reflects rising sports programming costs ra…

It’s always good to see positive news from the theatrical industry. While the 2024 box office may not have been everything we anticipated, it has still shown marked success and at least delivers the hope of a real recovery in this sector. …

As TIFFCOM, or the Tokyo International Film Festival’s key market, wraps up for another year, one interesting thing has become apparent. Japan is having something of a “cultural moment” right now, with several highly-lauded films boosting …

While Venom: The Last Dance hasn’t entirely mined the depths of poor performance that Joker: Folie à Deux sank to at the box office, it still hasn’t turned in the anticipated performance we hoped for. Still, this weekend’s box office news …

AI's tech success story of the past few years will bring another exciting project to market. Earlier this week, Blumhouse and Meta announced a short film-focused AI partnership through its Meta Movie Gen suite. Brandon Blake, entertainment…

Bundling and shared content may well be becoming streaming’s new normal. We’ve seen several bundle deals hit the market this year, including many cross-streamer team-ups to spread and diversify subscriber access to their content libraries …

This year, we’ve spent a lot of time contemplating the top performers and new records across the wide release theatrical market. However, today, we have a great new milestone for the specialty box office to share, too, with one of the best…

While the somewhat frantic push into new territories has slowed a little for the streaming industry, non-English language content is still a critical part of the overall streaming growth strategy. As always, Netflix continues to dominate t…

In what is probably the most significant move towards embracing the use of AI within the entertainment industry we’ve seen so far, Lionsgate has now signed a deal with Runway, a “video-focused artificial intelligence research firm,” to cre…

As Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice burst onto the big screen for its opening debut, it’s been another good week for the 2024 box office. Brandon Blake, our entertainment attorney from Blake & Wang P.A., wraps up another week that gives us some ho…

Charter and AMC Networks have opted for an early renewal of their existing distribution agreement for the AMC Network’s portfolio, which now includes oft-forgotten AMC+, the company’s Direct-to-Consumer arm. Charter has been keen on includ…

Despite a live sports streaming boost from the Olympics, the first week of August has been slow for streaming overall. In another first this is also the first week where we see no originals among the top-ranked streaming properties. Our in…

Wasn’t August supposed to be a dull month for the box office? Alien: Romulus and It Ends With Us apparently didn’t get the message. As we move away from the strike-induced pipeline delays anticipated for early 2024, the box office seems to…

Current Lionsgate chief executive, Jon Feltheimer, will remain at the Lionsgate helm for another 5 years until July 31, 2029. No doubt, the company is keen to keep the consistency in leadership ahead of its upcoming split from the Starz ar…

As Paramount continues to be beleaguered by its rocky and prolonged M&A attempts, which have stretched through the entire 2024 calendar year and still seem little closer to resolution, we’re finally seeing some internal cost-cutting exerci…

Disney has announced an impressive performance in their latest upfront negotiations, setting an all-time high in advertiser commitments for the 2024-25 season. Today, our entertainment attorney in the know, Brandon Blake of Blake & Wang P.…

In a 2024 box office climate that has delivered plenty of upsets and unexpected victories, it seems Marvel will hold onto its reputation as a summer box office sensation. The latest R-rated installment in the Marvel franchise has already s…

For anyone hoping that the tumultuous M&A activity around Paramount was over, it's time to think again. While the news of a revised deal with Skydance Media and RedBird Capital did go some way towards soothing wider market concerns around …

It’s finally official. Skydance and Paramount’s proposed merger will go ahead. For real, this time! All parties have finally agreed upon the landmark deal (or should we say ordeal at this point?), and a consortium of Skydance Media and Red…

Sports streaming is a hot property right now. TKO Group Holdings has always been well positioned to capitalize on that boom, given that they are the parent company of both the UFC and the Endeavour-controlled WWE. In a new joint venture wi…

In a world where streaming competitiveness is one of the major watchwords of the day, much focus has been on the size and growth needed to carry general streaming platforms to tangible success. However, while the “big guys” have been worki…

It’s time for another perennial favorite in the crowded film festival calendar. As the 26th Shanghai Film Festival gets underway, a core theme of this year’s celebration is the emerging contemporary filmmakers shaping the Chinese film land…

Finally, the 2024 box office has some good news to share. Not only has Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 managed to live up to its expectations, one of the first major releases of the year to do so, but it has even managed to break a record whil…

In further evidence that FAST channels are carving themselves a very relevant niche in the wider streaming world, Nielsen will now report channel viewership (on the same measurements as traditional TV ad buyers) for Lionsate’s MovieSphere,…