Brandon Katz

1 week ago | observer.com | Brandon Katz

Books are consistently the largest IP source in filmmaking. NurPhoto via Getty ImagesI’ve always been bewildered about how people in the Jurassic Park/World universe keep returning to these dino-infested destinations despite repeated catastrophes. But that’s consumers for you—they like what they like and won’t be told otherwise.

2 weeks ago | rvivr.com | Brandon Katz |Scott McKay |Milt Harris

The world has failed to hold China accountable for both human rights and trade abuses for far too long. The Chinese Communist Party is the only governing authority of a major industrialized economy that has consistently held millions in concentration camps, flagrantly violated even the most basic trade practices, and even refused to provide basic transparancy during the recent pandemic.

2 weeks ago | observer.com | Brandon Katz

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine. Jay Maidment/Courtesy of 20th Century Studios and MARVELIn the 1950s, Walt Disney created a famous flywheel—where each business element drove value to another—that quickly became the decade-spanning strategic model for entertainment companies of all sizes. Today, in our fractured media ecosystem with rapidly changing audience behaviors and unprecedented competition for attention spans, we must delve one layer deeper.

1 month ago | observer.com | Brandon Katz

TV series and movies based on pre-existing IPs are more commercially successful than new-to-screen concepts. Nils Huenerfuerst/UnsplashThe film and television ecosystem revolves around intellectual property (IP)—anything based on pre-existing material such as comic books, novels, video games, podcasts and musicals and including remakes, reboots, revivals, prequels, sequels and spinoffs. This IP-driven industry is propelled forward on the back of its inertia.

1 month ago | rvivr.com | Brandon Katz |Milt Harris |Scott McKay

Political divisions in today’s polarized climate almost always boil to the surface. The United States is as schismatic as the country has been in centuries, and in this kind of tense environment, very few politicans can get away with being perceived as not taking a so-called side. Either a person is willing to work with Donald Trump or they aren’t, there isn’t a lot of middle ground in US politics right now.