Entertainment Lawyers

Amazon has now closed a first look, three-year film deal with Safehouse Pictures. Entertainment attorney with Blake & Wang P.A, Brandon Blake, unpacks the details we know so far.                                                                 Brandon Blake A Varied Output Founded by Tory Tunnell and Joby Harold in 2005, Safehouse has brought some noted pictures to our screens. With Netflix’s Atlas , a sci-fi thriller, currently in production, as well as Apple’s new live-action Godzilla/Titans Monsterverse series, they've had credits on King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Spinning Out, My Blind Brother, and Underground. Harold was also the executive producer and writer for Obi-Wan Kenobi , currently running on Disney+, and has writing credits on The Flash and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts , due to release next year. Safehouse Pictures is currently represented by the CAA and their attorney, Carlos Goodman Forward-Thinking Content Creation In the press release surroun

  Despite the wider return to classic in-person events and the buzz of the red carpet this Awards Season, the Emmys have proven to be a cost-sink for NBC. What does their sharp decline in viewers mean for the Emmys themselves? Blake & Wang P.A entertainment lawyer , Brandon Blake, takes a look at the wider climate around the broadcast’s nosedive in popularity.                                                                   Brandon Blake Lowest Audience Engagement Ever At 5.9M total viewers on NBC according to Nielsen averages, and a rather dismal 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic, this year’s Emmy broadcast was little but a disappointing flash in the pan. These dismal numbers represent record lows for the once-prestigious TV awards ceremony.   Of course, the Nielsen averages aren’t quite the full picture. The Emmys were also live-streamed on NBC’s streamer, Peacock, and we don’t have any real data on its performance there. It’s unlikely to make a historical difference i

  In a further great development for the overall recovery of the film and TV industry post-pandemic, foreign location shooting has sent at least one popular destination- British Columbia- to new heights. Blake & Wang P.A entertainment lawyer , Brandon Blake, has everything you need to know.                                                               Brandon Blake 2021 Period This data is based on tracked spending from the Vancouver Economic Commission, reflecting spend for the 2021 year, the last for which data is on record. This passes the $3.15B record in overall production spending seen in 2019, before the pandemic hit. It’s also a vast improvement on 2020’s $2.6B, although that comparison is likely not fair.    A lot of that spend is driven by anchor series like The Flash, Superman & Lois and Yellowjackets . While the data from this area was always expected to be highly indicative of a great recovery, this benchmark surpasses all predictions. Labor Action Dampe

 Bundling streaming services as a way to offset subscriber churn seems to be the focus of the day. It can be no surprise, then, that Disney- already something of a master of bundling- would be looking at a new way to leverage the power of value proposition to boost their streamer. Strangely, they seem to be encroaching on Amazon Prime’s territory. Entertainment lawyer Brandon Blake, from Blake & Wang P.A, looks deeper.                                                                           Brandon Blake                                                    Amazon Prime, but Disney To date, Amazon is one of the few global entities with strong entertainment stakes that still significantly tops Disney’s market cap. Disney wants to change that- aggressively. Perhaps it should be more of a surprise that they haven't tried to roll the pulling power of their iconic theme parks- and juicy merchandising- into their thriving bundle model to date. But now that’s being addressed. That will