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  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...

  In some great news for a rather lackluster fall box office, Wicked: For Good has turned in a successful opening weekend, one of the best box office openings ever for most of its stars, including the director and producer. We have Blake & Wang P.A.one of the top entertainment attorney in Los Angeles, USA, Brandon Blake, with more.                                                                                                             Brandon Blake Beating Records   Ironically, Wicked: For Good is turning in a performance that the first film could only dream of. It’s also the second biggest North American opening of this year, lagging behind only A Minecraft Movie . Its debut was officially $15...

  Will we see another highly successful Thanksgiving box office weekend? With Zootopia 2 already performing strongly in tracking, we certainly could. In fact, the sequel could even beat out last year’s Moana 2 , or even give 2019’s Frozen 2 a good run. With the full story, we have Brandon Blake, an entertainment lawyer from Blake & Wang P.A.                                                                             Brandon Blake   Strong Debut Predicted   Presales for the film are already in line with Pixar’s Inside Out 2 . That film opened at $154.2M over just 3 days back in June 2004. Zootopia 2 has 5 to put to good use, and current predictions suggest that we could see the film take $125M+ on its opening weekend.   To date, Disney has been responsible for ...

  It’s definitely been a great quarter (and indeed, a great year) for YouTube TV. As it releases its next quarter earnings, complete with a growing share of the TV Market, we have Brandon Blake, Entertainment Lawyer Los Angeles at Blake & Wang P.A., with the facts and figures.                                                                             Brandon Blake   Advertising Grows   In the latest financial quarter, YouTube TV advertising brought home $10.3B. This is a significant rise from the start of the year, which closed at $8.9B, rising to $9.8B in the previous quarter. Alphabet, its parent company (alongside Google), took in total revenue of $102.35B, with earnings per share of $2.87. This is a 16% growth over 2024, and came in above analysts’ expectations....

  While we may be in the slow season between the summer box office and the year-end slates, the box office is still ticking over nicely. With several strong performers this week, we have Brandon Blake, our top entertainment law firms los angeles at Blake & Wang P.A., with a recap.                                                                                 Brandon Blake One Battle After Another Emerges Victorious In its sophomore session, we’ve seen another strong performance from One Battle After Another , with only a 22% drop at the international box office. With a further $21.7M in the kitty this week, it has now taken $101.7M total to date. The film performed particularly well in New Zealand and Germany, as well as the Latin American and Nordic markets. It will be P...

 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 summer season may be ready to fade away, but the domestic and international box offices are still going strong. To share the good news, we have Brandon Blake, best entertainment lawyers in Los Angeles from Blake & Wang P.A.                                                                                  Brandon Blake Superman Continues to Show Success The latest Superman release, intended to revitalize the franchise, has now passed $300M at the domestic box office- the first DC movie to attain that benchmark since The Batman in 2022. Given that it was hoped that the film, a soft reboot of the DC universe, would revitalize the franchise, they must be very happy. It’s also the ninth DC movie to meet that mark at the North American box office, and has surpassed the...

  As the post-pandemic box office recovery accelerated over the past 2 years, we’ve seen over and over again how a smart theatrical release can drive extra value and marketing for streaming releases. After one of the longest theatrical windows of the modern entertainment era, A24’s Babygirl is finally shifting over to streaming on Max. To tell us more, we have Brandon Blake, best entertainment lawyers in Los Angeles at Blake & Wang P.A.                                                                               Brandon Blake   121-Day Window   Although there is, strictly speaking, no set modern theatrical window as we once saw, with 90 days being the then-standard, we have seen the post-pandemic period slowly default to either 45-day runs or 31-day runs in genera...

 Who’s who in the 2025 Oscar Season race? With the ceremony, slightly delayed due to the California wildfires, finally taking place in the first week of March this year, we take a look at the key films to know from the 97th Academy Award lineup with Brandon Blake, entertainment attorney Los Angeles at Blake & Wang P.A.                                                                             Brandon Blake Where We Stand 2024 itself brought us a very unpredictable and rather turbulent, although ultimately successful, blockbuster year. Films that were meant to be blockbusters flopped, while little-considered ones saw massive popular traction. From the festival circuit, we saw some stellar titles emerge, including Anora , A Real Pain , and The Substance proving to be crowd-pleasers....

  The American Film Market is facing a pivotal moment as seven leading sales agencies demand its return to Los Angeles, threatening to create their own marketplace if the event remains in Las Vegas for 2025. Brandon Blake, entertainment attorney at Blake & Wang P.A., unpacks this development for us.                                                                             Brandon Blake   The Las Vegas No-No   Despite an increased attendance of 5,500 at the Palms Casino venue, major industry players (including AGC Studios, Black Bear, FilmNation, and Lionsgate) expressed strong dissatisfaction with the new Las Vegas location. Complaints ranged from inadequate facilities to logistical challenges, with sources citing expensive equipment rentals and elevator delays disrupt...

 According to the latest data from FilmLA, only a fifth of scripted projects released in 2023 were filmed in the greater Los Angeles area. However, more than a quarter of industry workers still call LA home. Brandon Blake, our entertainment lawyer Los Angeles and industry insider from Blake & Wang P.A., looks at this thorny issue in greater depth.                                                                           Brandon Blake A Talent and Incentive Mismatch As of 2023, 18% of scripted productions released were filmed in LA. This is a notable drop from 2022 (22%) and 2021 (23%). However, 27% of industry workers still operate from LA. Of course, some of that can be attributed to the strikes, but low tax incentives/rebates and high location costs are also key issues. Plus, the strikes weren...

 It’s been a year for competitive tax incentives, as both states and countries seek to compete with the “classic” choices and get themselves a share of the entertainment industry’s budgets and spending. Now Ireland is joining the fray. Brandon Blake, entertainment attorney  at Blake & Wang P.A., analyzes this latest competitor on the tax incentive scene.                                                                          Brandon Blake Boosting Homegrown Talent Dublin will introduce a 40% tax incentive for its 2025 budget. Interestingly, this incentive is aimed at mid-range and lower-budget films with a maximum budget of $22M (€20M) and will need a significant management presence from Irish talent. This would boost the existing Section 481 film tax incentive by roughly 8%. The broader Ir...

  Joker: Folie à Deux has managed to net itself a Chinese release date, which is still notably difficult for many newer Hollywood properties to leverage in the post-pandemic entertainment environment. This new development is, perhaps, most notable because the original Joker movie itself was never launched on Chinese shores. Brandon Blake, entertainment attorney at Blake & Wang P.A., has the full details for us.                                                                          Brandon Blake October Release The movie will open in Chinese cinemas on October 16, two weeks after its widespread release date, shortly after the so-called Golden Week for that market. The film, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, made its global debut at the Venice Film Festival, earning a 12-minute standi...

  In a year packed with box office milestones, another has fallen—this time, from a much unexpected source. The “little film that could,” It Ends with Us , has set its footprint in the record books. Our best entertainment attorney in Los Angeles from Blake & Wang P.A., Brandon Blake, has the happy news to share.   Brandon Blake Top-Grossing Romantic Drama It Ends with Us is now the top-performing romantic drama since the 2018 edition of A Star Is Born . With its total global ticket sales now sitting at a hair under $310M, it may even unseat the latter film’s global total if it continues to hold strong. This puts the film ahead of films such as Crazy Rich Asians, The Fault in Our Stars, and Anyone but You . Sony’s latest push into attracting more female demographics to its movies seems to be paying off for them. A Social Success? Some of this success can possibly be attributed to its remarkable quirk of timing. Releasing shortly after a much-anticipated blockb...

  The Boy and the Heron Takes a Record Domestic Opening It’s been a great year for underrated and unexpected titles at the box office. While a 12.8M opening may seem small in comparison to the franchise blockbusters of previous years, it represents massive support for an animation piece opening in cinemas in the US- and the momentum is only growing. Brandon Blake, entertainment lawyers with Blake & Wang P.A., shares the great news.                                              Brandon Blake Biggest North American Opening Hailing from Studio Ghibli and the greatly esteemed mind of animation filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, The Boy and the Heron took a total of 12.8M from theaters in its opening weekend, including a very strong $4M debut Saturday- the dynamic duo’s best results in the North American market yet.   This was despite an overall rather soft se...