Partner at Weinberg & Fyvolent, clients include WME and Mandalay Pictures

Lawrence I. Weinberg, Esq. has performed legal and business affairs services for a variety of entertainment companies, law firms and independent motion pictures, documentaries, television and web-based programs for over twenty-five years. He is also an educator, having worked with Boston University’s Los Angeles Study Abroad Program since its inception in 2002.

Weinberg graduated from Loyola Law School in 1989 and Boston University in 1986. He has been a member of the California Bar since 1990 and has been Senior Advisor and Lead Lecturer of Film and Television and Media Ventures Programs for Boston University’s Los Angeles Study Abroad Program for 20 years. Weinberg has also spoken on entertainment and media business and legal matters at numerous film festivals, universities and state-run seminars, as well as for private corporate client engagements. He has been an advisor for the Sundance Catalyst Forum, an exclusive annual program at the Sundance Institute which brings filmmakers and investors together for seminars, workshops and presentation meetings.

Weinberg interned and practiced law for several years with the Screen Actors Guild and the highly respected law firms of Lavely & Singer and Allen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble & Mallory, in Los Angeles. His work at the William Morris Agency focused on independent film financing and international co-productions. Weinberg also helped develop, finance and star several entertainment-related companies for which he provided business, legal, finance and production services, including LA-based Storyopolis and E3 Entertainment and NY-based Sandbox TV, and established the law firm of Weinberg & Fyvolent. While with Storyopolis, Weinberg specialized in family entertainment and intellectual property branding. While with E3 Entertainment, he provided a full-service business and legal affairs practice specializing in entertainment finance, film, television, documentary and new-media business and legal affairs, international co-productions, business development, and traditional producer-artist representation. At Sandbox TV, a web-based video-on-demand delivery platform specializing in branded video channels with a social networking application, Weinberg managed all entertainment and media related legal affairs. As a partner with Weinberg & Fyvolent, a boutique entertainment law firm, Weinberg specialized in all matters related to film and television legal representation.

Currently, Weinberg manages his own boutique firm and represents a variety of entertainment clients including corporate entities, distributors, producers, artists and individual motion picture, television and internet-based productions. Weinberg’s clients are multi-faceted and include international production, financing and distribution companies, film and media funds, animation studios, and writers, directors, actors and producers. Weinberg oversees all aspects of his client’s legal affairs. One thing all of his clients share is that they are prolific producers of quality motion picture and television content.

Weinberg has negotiated and drafted all forms of media and entertainment agreements, including: general corporate, labor (all entertainment unions), finance (bank, pre-sales, gap, tax credit and subsidy soft money), intellectual property rights (underlying rights, chain-of-title), artist (director, actor, writer), digital (web and mobile-based) and sales and licensing (domestic and international), from acquisitions through production and distribution. He has negotiated deals with all major unions, vendors, studios and independent distributors, networks, digital streamers, international sales and financing companies, and music and literary publishing companies. He is well-schooled on both domestic and international finance, tax credit, subsidy and co- production structures, and has written numerous business plans, operating agreements and supporting texts.

Weinberg has provided business and legal affairs services on more than 100 motion picture, television, internet, documentary, VR and other forms of entertainment projects, including: Air a/k/a Sole Man, The Persian Version, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, His Three Daughters, The Inheritance a/k/a Last Will and Testament of Charles Abernathy, Memory, Windfall, Borat: Subsequent MovieFilm, Bruised, Charlie in the Pandemic, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Golden Arm, Last Looks, Silk Road, Nine Days, Brazen, Tully, Captain Fantastic, Trumbo, Restless, Southern Gospel, Bubbles, Harmon Quest, Uncorked, After, IO, Otherhood, Last Days of American Crime, Lost Girls, Fractured, Juanita, Little Evil, #RealityHigh, God Bless The Broken Road, Burning Sands, Amateur, F*** The Prom, The Yellow Birds, Phoenix Forgotten, The Comedian, Burn Your Maps, I Saw The Light, Spare Parts, Franny, Mr. Church, Cake, Exists, When Calls The Heart (Pilot MOW and TV series), Aztec Warrior, Girl In Progress, Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treasure (Trilogy), Lovely Molly, Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best, LUV, Christmas in Compton, yellowbrickroad, Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, Fuel, The Elder Son, Black Box, Photographing Fairies, Campfire Tales, The Last Supper, Red Doors, The Holy Land, Hope and a Little Sugar, among others.