The Genre Playbooks

How animation, horror, faith-based, sports/music biopic, video game IP, and A24/specialty films actually behave.

Lessons

1. Lesson 01

   Animation and Family: parental trust as currency

   Why Disney/Pixar collapsed in the late 2010s on original IP, and what the 2026 recovery looks like.

   9 min
2. Lesson 02

   Horror mechanics

   Why horror is the strongest tag-along engine in modern moviegoing.

   7 min
3. Lesson 03

   Faith-based: Kingdom Stories and the Sound of Freedom playbook

   Don't let the critics in. Build a fan-acquisition machine. Plays deeper than coastal art-film theaters.

   8 min
4. Lesson 04

   Biopics: sports vs. music

   Two genres, opposite week-2 shapes. Why critics hate them both, and why audiences don't.

   8 min
5. Lesson 05

   Video Game IP: the 30-year arc

   From Mortal Kombat 1995 to Mortal Kombat II 2026. Why R-rated is still capped.

   8 min
6. Lesson 06

   The Specialty axis: A24, Mubi, Searchlight

   A24's growth-ceiling problem and the red-state graduation challenge.

   7 min