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  South Korean cinema  has become a household name for creativity and excitement. With this in mind, what lessons can we take home from the Busan Film Festival? We have the news from Brandon Blake, best entertainment lawyers in los angeles at Blake & Wang P.A.                                                                      Brandon Blake 30th Anniversary This year, the Busan International Film Festival returned ready to celebrate its third decade as one of Asia’s largest film showcases. The festival has helped the world discover many now-iconic Korean directors, from Bong Joon-hoo to Park Chan-wook. While it has had its share of flops, and even a scandal or too over the years, the festival still thrives under new leadership, with several changes introduced to this year’s program.  What to Kn...

 There’s some good news (finally) for both Sony and Crunchyroll as we see one of the most successful anime openings to date from Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle . With all the details about this new win, we have Brandon Blake, the top entertainment law firm Los Angeles at Blake & Wang P.A.                                                                    Brandon Blake A New Record Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle saw a magnificent opening weekend, bringing in somewhere in the range of $70M over its opening weekend. This also earned it the 6th best opening for September, the best on record for an anime movie. It’s also the best opening Sony has seen in the last two years, as well as a first for Crunchyroll. It’s estimated that 4.5M people have seen the film to date.   It’s a particularly impressiv...

  The production and distribution arm of Canal+, StudioCanal, will be taking a stake in UGC’s exhibition network. Covering 55 theaters in both Belgium and France, UGC is currently one of the most influential theater chains in the area. To share the facts, we have Brandon Blake, best entertainment lawyers in Los Angeles  at Blake & Wang P.A.   Brandon Blake   Minority Stake   Under the negotiations, Canal+ would assume a 34% minority stake in the group, with the further option to take full control in 2028. Under the UGC banner is the UGC Ciné Cité Les Halles in Paris, one of the world’s most visited cinemas. It would also give them a stake in UGC’s extensive film and TV library. Canal+ already controls one of Europe’s largest film catalogs.   Growing StudioCanal   For Canal+, this not only gives them an expanded stake in the cinema and theatrical exhibition space, but could also be a new way to grow StudioCanal’s influence and ...

As Amazon goes in hard on bundling, we’ve seen more and more smaller streaming platforms join forces and go all-in on bundling with the Prime Video service. Now, Peacock is joining the fray. To fill in all the details, we have entertainment attorney Brandon Blake, at Blake & Wang P.A.  Brandon Blake NBCUniversal Looks for Bundle Deals Peacock will now be available as a Prime Video add-on, at a price tag of $16.99 per month, or $169.99 per annum. This will be the Peacock Premium Plus option, their current ad-free tier.  Amazon has become a major aggregating force among streaming services, now offering HBO Max, Apple TV+, Starz, and Paramount+ all offering bundling options through the platform. Clearly, Amazon’s one-stop billing offerings have found traction with viewers.  Peacock’s First Bundling Option (Technically) Peacock itself has been shy in pursuing bundling or channel options to date, but an insider source suggests that the platform is likely to increase its f...

  Despite a reasonably slow box office weekend, we have seen some strong holdovers contribute to both the domestic and international box office, which should also translate to some big milestones. Not least of all for F1 , another one of this year’s surprise releases that has done tremendously well. Brandon Blake, our expert entertainment lawyer at Blake & Wang P.A., has all the details.   Brandon Blake F1 Success Continues Jurassic World: Rebirth is still on track to pass the $800M globally. More unexpectedly, however, F1 is still seeing exponential success with audiences. The Apple-Warner Bros film is eyeing a $600M worldwide cume, equal to DC and Warner Bros. Superman . We also saw another strong performance from Weapons , which topped this weekend’s box office with $18.4M over 73 markets. F1 saw only a 23% drop from last weekend, impressive numbers for a film already in its 8th frame. The film is doing particularly well in Korea, where it is now the top m...

  With lofty promises of being “the next-generation media and tech giant”, we can finally draw a line under the Skydance-Paramount merger and look ahead to brighter things. With this long-awaited merger finally officially closed, we have Brandon Blake, the best entertainment lawyers in los angeles at Blake & Wang P.A., with the final details.   Brandon Blake $8B Deal Closed The newly combined company will be, as expected, under the leadership of David Ellison as CEO, with Jeff Shell (formerly of NBCUniversal) taking over as president. David Ellison has long been a champion of bringing technology and entertainment together, so it’s little surprise that that will be their first focus as they seek to bring ailing Paramount back into profit and prominence.   Among promises made in the shareholder letter, we see a unified technology stack and the merger of Pluto and Paramount+ into a single streaming offering. Of course, there were the usual promises of makin...