Leisure Legislation Agency Levine Plotkin & Menin Expands Into L.A. and Grows Its Crew

New York-based leisure regulation agency Levine Plotkin & Menin, which makes a speciality of transactional work within the arts, leisure and media, has opened an workplace in Los Angeles.

LPM’s enlargement will construct on its present footprint within the area, and comes after a few years of working with studios, creatives, unbiased producers and others based mostly within the space. The L.A. workplace aligns with the agency’s mission to higher serve present purchasers and initiatives and to develop its movie and tv apply usually.

LPM’s latest representations embody “Hamilton,” from improvement on stage by way of its premiere as a movie on Disney+; the producers of Netflix’s “The Promenade,” directed by Ryan Murphy; and longtime consumer Gloria Steinem in reference to the autobiographical movie “The Glorias,” starring Julianne Moore.

“Our purchasers are more and more lively in a number of areas concurrently,” mentioned Loren Plotkin (above, proper), a founding father of LPM. “We often assist our theater and literary publishing purchasers develop movies, tv sequence, podcasts and different media initiatives, whereas many studios and rights holders come to us for recommendation as they navigate the stage and e book publishing worlds. We’ve got now discovered the proper match in Los Angeles to permit us to higher serve our purchasers on each coasts and in all media.”

As a part of the Los Angeles enlargement, LPM introduced the addition David Schachter (above, left) to its crew of attorneys. Schachter joins the agency as a associate and can handle the L.A. workplace.

With expertise representing performing expertise, screenwriters, administrators and producers throughout movie and TV, Schachter will construct upon LPM’s experience in these areas. His latest successes embody repping writer and screenwriter Taffy Brodesser-Akner, whose bestselling novel “Fleishman Is in Hassle” bought to ABC Signature and FX in a aggressive bidding course of. A restricted sequence adaptation of the e book just lately wrapped filming and can premiere on FX on Hulu, with Brodesser-Akner serving as sequence creator and showrunner.

Schachter additionally reps Scott Mescudi (also called recording artist Kid Cudi) with respect to his movie and TV endeavors. Latest offers embody a multiyear improvement and manufacturing pact with BRON Studios for Mescudi’s manufacturing shingle, Mad Photo voltaic Productions; a starring position for Mescudi within the upcoming John Woo motion movie “Silent Evening”; and an upcoming Netflix animated undertaking, “Entergalactic,” for which Mescudi will voice the lead position and function exec producer.

“Artists and producers are not content material to remain in a single lane creatively,” mentioned Schachter. “The alternatives for crossover success have by no means been better, and with its variety of experience in leisure, LPM is poised to assist purchasers maximize that success.”