Entertainment Lawyers

  With the general optimism around this year’s box office, it’s always great to see a strong week, even if it's free of the splashy record-breakers this year has delivered. Brandon Blake, entertainment lawyer at Blake & Wang P.A., dives into this past week’s releases.                                                                          Brandon Blake Resident Winners The rebooted Resident Evil franchise, now under Zach Creggar, has turned in a surprisingly strong start, at $108.3M worldwide. It’s the best start for the franchise, and for Creggar as a filmmaker. Notably, it replaces Resident Evil: Retribution , and that film only took a total of $240M worldwide, something this iteration may well surpass and should at least repeat. It also managed to bring in an extended audience, instead of o...

There have been some significant recent changes in Disney’s senior leadership, especially in its direct-to-consumer division. Brandon Blake, entertainment lawyer with Blake & Wang P.A., has the full story.                                                                               Brandon Blake New Streaming Head Joe Earley, the exiting president for Disney’s D2C interests, will now move to a new role as President of the Disney Entertainment TV Franchise and Content Strategy. Adam Smith will step into his shoes as chairman. This will leave him overseeing pretty much everything that falls under Disney’s D2C banner, including their products and engineering, ad technology, programming, partnerships, viewer experience, and the ever-more-important data and analytics. That’s across both Di...

  As Avengers: Doomsday sees strong ticket sales three months ahead of its actual release date, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to see box office success, are we headed for another superhero wave? Brandon Blake, entertainment attorney at Blake & Wang P.A., takes a look.                                                                          Brandon Blake $50M With Three Months to Go Domestic pre-sales have now passed the $50M threshold for Avengers: Doomsday . The film only releases in three months. It’s certainly an excellent start for the next Marvel installment, which will be competing for screen space with the third installment in the Dune franchise when it opens in December this year. Especially given that Dune is set to dominate IMAX screens, at least for its first weekend in ...

  Despite a flurry of price hikes earlier this year, new data from Ampere Analysis suggests that we’re reaching the bounds of what customers are willing to spend on an individual platform. Brandon Blake, entertainment attorney at Blake & Wang P.A., has all the details.                                                                   Brandon Blake     Reaching the Limit We’ve already seen the big three of streaming, Disney, Netflix, and Prime Video, scale down the ambition in their price hikes. In the 2024/2024 period, pricing increases averaged 24% per subscription type, which has slid to 14% in 2025/2026. We’ve also seen significant uptake for ad-supported tiers to reduce the cost burden on households, although average increases at this tier have been $1.61, versus $1.21 for more premium tiers.  No...