
Who Controls a Dead Star's Face? How Posthumous Likeness Rights Actually Work
Death ends a career. It does not end the brand — and someone still gets paid every time the name shows up.

Death ends a career. It does not end the brand — and someone still gets paid every time the name shows up.

A capable recording space costs less than most beginners fear — if they spend in the right order.

Publicists, not newsrooms, write the rules of awards-season carpets — and the questions are negotiated weeks before anyone puts on a tux.

The clock, the crew and the money behind one day in a professional tracking room.

The advance gets the headlines. The ghostwriter fee, the royalty escalators and the rights split decide who really cashes the check.

The greenlight process runs from script coverage to budget approval, and most projects die quietly along the way.

Three veteran distribution hires land just before MIPCOM — and each one tells you exactly which markets V10 is chasing.

Themed voyages look like fan service. They are a business with three payers and one product.

The company says its B2B studio will show nearly 100 titles in Las Vegas, but a trade-show announcement is a company's own claim, not independent proof of momentum.