As an independent filmmaker, getting your movie in front of audiences is just as crucial as making it. After all the time and money expended, it’s time to reach your audience. With the evolving landscape of film distribution, there are more options than ever before. Here are some of the main distribution avenues available to filmmakers today.

Everything that has been created up to now has been scraped and put into a big machine. Despite pending and forthcoming lawsuits, this is the inevitable truth.

Check out my five predictions for the entertainment industry in 2024.

The role of an entertainment attorney is a specialized area of law and yet encompasses more than most people realize.

a work-for-hire agreement is a valuable legal tool for entrepreneurs to establish ownership of intellectual property, define the scope of work, and protect their business interests when engaging individuals to create content, products, or services.

As Hollywood undergoes a myriad of changes from a post-strike hangover to streaming consolidations, questions around the future impact of AI on the industry remain. AI technology is only in its infancy stages of what it’s capable of doing or, more importantly, what it’s capable of creating.

You may have caught my recent cameo in the Depp v. Heard documentary on Netflix. This gave me an opportunity for a teaching moment regarding documentaries from an entertainment law perspective.

'Barbenheimer' (Barbie + Oppenheimer) leads the fourth-biggest weekend of all time at the domestic box office.

If you are a creative entrepreneur, then you’ve likely run up against whether you need to protect your work through a trademark or copyright, or both. To distinguish between the two can be confusing. Both are considered “intellectual property” or “IP,” but protect different types of IP.

As soon as you write something original down on paper, or into your computer, you have made an idea into a tangible medium of expression. Congratulations! You have a copyright. However, proving you are the owner of the copyright is another matter. 

While being stuck at home puts a strain on our sense of community, perhaps taking a step back from our extroverted lifestyles gives us a needed reprieve from the going, going, going mentality we’ve become accustomed to.

This week I was shocked when I woke to pictures on Facebook of my former neighborhood in east Nashville ripped to shreds by a F-4 tornado. The last two of the homes I lived in were in the direct path. The night before, at the exact time it was happening, I was extremely dizzy, nauseous, and disoriented.

I just returned from the San Francisco Writers’s Conference. It was four days of panels on anything and everything you could imagine related to writing and publishing. I felt like a kid in a candy store.

If you’ve been reading my newsletters, you know I’m branching out into publishing. My real dream is to be a legal thriller novelist and, of course, my day job is that of a self-help author. You can imagine how I was pulled in so many directions.

The other day I was sitting at a restaurant bar and overheard a conversation of two guys to my right. One had just moved out of his house as part of the divorce process. Soon thereafter, two other guys sat down to my left, also fresh from divorce.

Feeling stuck? In a rut? Do you feel like you’re on your path, off your path, on a dusty road, or maybe just taking the scenic route? Are we constantly creating new paths like Robert Frost’s The Road Less Traveled or is there a well-defined paved road we planned before we got down here? Sometimes I think free will is our ego taking weird detours.

Manifestation refers to the process of turning ideas and thoughts into physical form. This is integral to being spiritual beings in physical form and for our inevitable evolutionary expansion.