RICHARD M. ROSENTHAL. ESQ.
Los Angeles, CA. 
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Rick Rosenthal has been practicing law for over eighteen years, and currently maintains an entertainment transactional and litigation practice in Los Angeles. He represents independent producers, writers, actors, directors and managers in both film and television and also handles publishing, theater and animation clients. He has served as production counsel for many independent films in the $1 million to $5 million dollar budget range and negotiates distribution deals and DVD deals for independent films. He participates frequently in film panels and conducted a seminar on legal issues in independent film at the SWSX film conference in Austin Texas in 2000.

He has worked for such clients as MTM Distribution, Odyssey Entertainment, Helkon Media, Cineville, Seven Arts, 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".), including the following:

           

1.      FILM                                                

IN DEVELOPMENT/PRE-PRODUCTION-         Untitled Marlene Dietrich Project (Dreamworks) with Gwyneth Paltrow (counsel to writer/producer)

 -         Untitled Miki Dora Project (Appian Way) with          Leonardo Di Caprio (counsel to executive producer) 

-         Untitled Bubba Stewart project (Cruise-Wagner/Paramount) (counsel to executive producer) 

-    Monster Mountain Feature Horror (counsel to executive producers) 

2004 

-         88 Minutes (Emmett Furla Films) with Al Pacino (counsel to producers)

-         Edison (Emmett Furla Films) with Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey LL  Cool J and Justin Timberlake (counsel to producers)

-         Submerged (Emmett Furla Films) with Steven Seagal (counsel to producers)

-         Loverboy (Millenium) with Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon (counsel to co-executive producers)

-         Surviving Eden (Cineville) with Cheri Oteri, Peter Dinklage, Jane Lynch and Sam Robards (production counsel)

-         God, Sex & Apple Pie (Warner Home Video) (counsel to producer/writer/star)

-         Amityville Horror: 25 Years Later (Dimension Films/MGM) with Ryan Reynolds (counsel to executive producers)

-         Steal Me (Cineville) (production counsel)

-         Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont (Cineville) (production counsel) 

                               2003 

-     Loverboy (Emmett Furla Films) with Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Sandra Bullock, Marisa Tomei, Matt Dillon and Oliver Platt, directed by Kevin Bacon (counsel to Co-Executive Producers)

-     Love Song for Bobby Long (Screen Gems) with John Travolta and Scarlett Johannson (counsel to executive producers)

-         Control  (Emmett Furla Films) with Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Rodriguez and Stephen Rea (counsel to producers) 

-         Firedog (Animated Feature) with Lauren Bacall, Tom Berenger, Tom Arnold, Michael Madsen, and Nia Peeples  (production counsel)

-         Wonderland (Lions Gate) with Val Kilmer, Lisa Kudrow, Josh Lucas, Dylan McDermott, Kate Bosworth and Janeane Garafalo (production counsel) 

-         Belly of the Beast (Columbia/Tri-Star) with Steven Seagal (counsel to producers)

-         Out for a Kill (Columbia/Tri-Star) with Steven Seagal (counsel to producers)

 2002 

-         My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Gold Circle) produced by Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson (counsel to writer/star)

-          Narc (Paramount) Official selection 2002 Sundance Film Festival with Ray Liotta and Jason Patric (counsel to executive producers)

-         Half Past Dead  (Sony Pictures) with Steven Seagal and Ja Rule (counsel to executive producers)

-         Try 17 aka All I Want (Emmett/Furla Films) with Elijah Wood and Mandy Moore-2002 Toronto Film Festival (counsel to producers)

-          Plotz With A View (Miramax) with Brenda Blythern, Alfred Molina, Naomi Watts and Christopher Walken  (counsel to producers)

-          Blind Horizon (NuImage) with Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Neve Campbell and Amy Smart (counsel to  producers)

-          Shottas 2002 Toronto Film Festival (counsel to executive producers)

-          All The Queens Men (Strand Releasing) with Matt LeBlanc (counsel   to producer)

-          The Devil and Daniel Webster (Miracle Entertainment) with Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins, directed by Alec Baldwin (counsel to co-executive producers)

 2001 

-          Ticker (Artisan) with Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Steven Seagal

(counsel to producers)

-     The Badge (Gold Circle) with Billy Bob Thornton and       Patricia  Arquette (counsel to producers)

-          Run For The Money (Millennium) with Christian Slater and Val Kilmer    (counsel to  producers)

-          American Rhapsody (Paramount Classics) Tony Goldwyn and Natassia Kinski  (production counsel)

-          Speedway Junky (Regent) Executive Produced by Gus Van Sant with Darryl Hannah, Jonathan Taylor-Thomas, Patsy Kensit, Jesse Bradford, Tiffany Amber-Thiessen and Warren G. (production counsel)

-          Good Advice (Artisan/HBO) with Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, Angie Harmon, Jon Lovitz and Rosanna Arquette (production counsel) 

     2000 

-     The Watcher (Universal) with Keanu Reeves, James        Spader and Marisa Tomei (counsel to producers)

-     After Sex with Brooke Shields, Virginia Madsen and       D.B. Sweeney (production counsel)

-     Chill Factor (Warner Brothers) with Cuba Gooding,       Jr.  (counsel to producers)

-     Held for Ransom with Dennis Hopper and Morgan        Fairchild (production counsel) 

Previous 

 - Whole Wide World (Cineville) Sundance Film Festival Dramatic    competition 1996 Rene Zellweger and Vincent D’Onofrio (counsel to writers)     

 

2.  TELEVISION

                                    - The Contender (NBC)

                                    - The Next Great Champ (Fox)

- Whose Line Is It Anyway? (ABC)

- Mad TV (Fox)

 - Blind Date (Polygram)

 - ABC Laboratory