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Easter is always a great time for family-focused films at the box office, and this year has certainly delivered. With The Super Mario Galaxy Movie breaking a slew of records, and Project Hail Mary continuing to woo audiences, we have Blake & Wang P.A., entertainment attorney , Brandon Blake, with all the details. Brandon Blake A Galaxy of Records Broken Now sitting pretty with an estimated $372.5M in takings globally, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is now the top opening of the year, by far. Having brought in $190.1M domestically over the 5-day weekend, it has also managed $182.4M from over 80 markets.  This echoes the successful release pattern of its predecessor, which managed a 5-day domestic debut of $204M, one of the best showings of all time for a holiday. The Super Mario Bros Galaxy Movie will now join it on that list. Add to the kitty the year’s biggest 3-day opening in North America and globally, the 5th biggest opening for an animated title, and the 4th biggest for ...

  In recent years, box office success has lain with family-friendly animations. In fact, the first Super Mario Bros movie kick-started this swing back in 2023. With another Super Mario title ready to leap onto the silver screen, could we be looking at another animated success for Illumination/Universal and Nintendo? That’s the question Brandon Blake, Our best Entertainment Attorney with Blake & Wang P.A., is ready to answer for the looming Easter stretch.                                                                         Brandon Blake Predicted 5-Day Domestic Opening April 1 may be best known for its jokes, but it will also be the day that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie opens, and the 5-day predictions for the Easter holiday period are no joke. Even the most conservative estimates peg this one f...

  Hollywood may not quite know how it really feels about AI. But let’s be honest, it is going to change how films get made, like it or not. The real questions are how, and how the industry will have to adapt to it. In what could be one of the first film production-targeted AI projects that actually attempt to answer that question, a new offering made specifically to help with production goals has launched, as entertainment lawyer Brandon Blake is here to share.                                                                                                                      Brandon Blake Asteria Launches New Suite Continuum suite, launched by Asteria, promises to offer a new model oper...

  After a box office year that turned out surprisingly successful despite its initial woes, have we hit the same slump this year? Brandon Blake, take a look at entertainment lawyer at Blake & Wang P.A., is here to share the latest news from the silver screen.                                                                   Brandon Blake                                                                  Good News for Paramount Ahead of their coming deal with Warner Bros., which had a fantastic set of releases last year, Paramount will be happy to see some of that magic rub off on them. Despite critics feeling anything but confident about the latest in...

After Ne Zha 2 ’s extraordinary rise last year, it was inevitable that this Chinese New Year’s cinema takings would look a little drab. However, this is also one of the most influential periods for Chinese cinema. Brandon Blake, the entertainment lawyer with Blake & Wang P.A., offers a look under the hood of this year’s cinematic performance.                                                                         Brandon Blake A Successful Box Office? It’s tempting indeed to note the decline in this year’s takings and leave it at that. However, the Chinese New Year brought home RMB 5.75B, or about $842.3M over the festivities. Admissions were 120 million people.  That’s 18% down on last year’s takings, which hit RMB 7M, or $965M. Was this year likely to match Ne Zha 2 ? No. That was a remarka...

  Despite the many frustrations of the flux US filmmaking currently finds itself in, the independent production circuit is holding up strong, with foreign partners now becoming the go-to way to get media made. Brandon Blake, check the entertainment lawyer Los Angeles with Blake & Wang P.A., looks at how co-productions are now helping to scale and expand productions’ reach globally, with Canada leading the way. Brandon Blake Canadian Filmmaking Expansion Under official local co-production rules, Canadian filmmakers cannot spend more than 25% of their total budgets abroad, meaning that they often need to find foreign partners for additional financing boosts. However, this model can introduce its own complexities along the way, not least of which is the coordination needed to make it work. Co-productions allow a little more flexibility, especially to look for cheaper areas to shoot without skirting the rules (too much). It can also offer the “scaffolding” needed to open up new te...