Rick Rosenthal
Rick Rosenthal has been practicing law for over twenty-five years, and currently maintains an 
entertainment transactional and litigation practice in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1979, became a RFK fellow at the RFK Memorial in Washington, D.C. and then worked on the Kennedy for President campaign. He received his J.D. from Boston University in 1983, clerked for a federal judge in the District of Rhode Island and the First Circuit Court of Appeals, worked for law firms He represents independent producers, writers, actors, directors and managers both in film and television and also handles publishing, theater and animation clients. He has served as production counsel for many films and has negotiated acquisition agreements and distribution deals with major studios and distributors including Universal, Warner Brothers, Paramount, New Line, NuImage, Dreamworks, Disney and Lionsgate, in addition to DVD deals and P&A deals for independent films. He recently helped negotiate a ten picture deal with Lionsgate for his clients to produce pictures budgeted between $12-$15 million dollars. He participates frequently in film panels and has conducted seminars on legal issues in independent film at the SWSX film conference in Austin Texas, at the L.A. Film School and at UCLA.He has worked for such clients as MTM Distribution, Odyssey Entertainment, Helkon Media, Cineville, Seven Arts, Bold Films, Tony Kaye Films and Emmett/Furla Films. He served for five years as the General Counsel to the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. He has drafted, negotiated and litigated a wide variety of entertainment contracts and matters, including distribution agreements, rights acquisitions, financing documents, talent agreements, joint ventures and co-production deals, licensing, syndication and profit participation (“Hill Street Blues”, “Dangerous Minds”, “The Watcher”, Indecent Proposal”.).