ENTERTAINMENT

The firm's entertainment practice covers the entire industry, with extensive experience in highly complex transactions involving motion pictures, television, the legitimate stage, music, new media, sports, direct marketing, and merchandising. The entertainment department reviews, analyzes, negotiates, and prepares contracts on behalf of its clients, provides general advice on all matters pertaining to the clients' careers, business strategies and planning, and utilizes its extensive experience and contacts in the entertainment industry to work on transactions involving multiple disciplines.

The firm represents numerous companies and individuals who are major participants in the entertainment industry. Entertainment clients include directors, performers, writers, producers, financiers, distributors and international sales agents, print publishers, special effects companies, managers, agents, athletes, recording artists, record companies, software designers, developers and distributors, and merchandisers. The firm's entertainment clients have participated in meaningful capacities in major studio motion picture projects such as The Bourne Identity, Frida, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, The Matrix sequels, Twister, Scary Movie, Something's Gotta Give, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jumper, Kung Fu Hustle, Crash, Nights In Rodanthe and Quantum of Solace; independent films such as Bend it Like Beckham, Buena Vista Social Club, The Good Girl, Heist, Requiem for a Dream, Redbelt, Swingers and Religulous; and television programs such as ER, The King of Queens, The O. C., The West Wing, The Simple Life, Line of Fire, The Diary of Anne Frank, Gettysburg, Knight Rider and Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union. In the music and home video fields, the firm represents record companies, including American Gramaphone Records, the largest seller of Christmas albums in the United States. The firm also represents Scholastic, the leading publisher of children's books and a producer of family entertainment for theaters and television, as well as Random House Films, a joint venture between Random House, the world’s largest publishing company, and Focus Features. In addition, the firm represents Imagi, the largest independent animation studio in the U.S. and Asia.

Attorneys in Entertainment:
Stan Coleman
Carolyn Conrad
Peter J. Dekom
Alan L. Grodin
Wayne Kazan
David G. Stanley
Todd M. Stern
Matthew N.Sugarman
Eric Weissmann