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From Published Book To Hollywood Script With Paul S Levine – Ep #24

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How do you get Hollywood interest in you script Leslie apos s guest Attorney and Literary Agent Paul S Levine says one very interesting way is to reverse engineer a book from your script get it published creating the IPO and then go to the studios and distributors The best part about it is that you get paid multiple times instead of just the 100K as a first time independent script writer Leslie and Paul also discuss how and why to set up a writing partnership necessary legal agreements to avoid future problems and much more Paul S Levine wears two hats he is a lawyer and a literary agent Mr Levine was born in World and was raised and educated inMontreal He received a Bachelor of Commerce Magna Cum Laude from ConcordiaUniversity in Montreal and went on to earn a Master of Business Administrationfrom York University in Toronto In 1978 he came to Los Angeles for the sunshineand to start law school he received his Juris Doctor from the University ofSouthern California Law School in 1981 He began his entertainment law career straight out of law school as anassociate with the Law Offices of Stephen F Rohde where he specialized inentertainment litigation and entertainment transactions for almost seven 7 years While there he had the great fortune to represent Price Stern SloanPublishers Roger Price created Mad Libs Leonard Stern created televisionseries such as The Honeymooners and Get Smart and Larry Sloan invented bookstores in airports in the 1970s to represent the King of Comics Jack Kirby creator of Captain America Spiderman Incredible Hulk Fantastic Four X-Men Black Panther etc and to represent Elysium Institute then theonly nudist colony in all of Los Angeles County Answering a blind advertisement in the Hollywood Reporter he went to workfor the Business amp Legal Affairs Department of Warner Bros Television where hespent almost five 5 years He then moved to Hearst Entertainment where hespent two 2 years as Resident Counsel In October 1992 he established his ownlaw practice in Santa Monica and in December 1995 moved his office to the garagenext to his home in Venice where he specializes in the representation ofauthors writers producers actors directors composers musicians artists photographers galleries publishers developers production companies andtheatre companies in the fields of motion pictures television interactivemultimedia live stage recorded music concerts the visual arts publishing and advertising He still practices as both a transactional lawyer and as alitigator for litigation he practices civil probate and family lawlitigation and has yet to have to take a case all the way to trial He settlesdisputes before they need to be filed as lawsuits sometimes directly withopposing counsel and sometimes with the help of a good mediator If litigationdoes result he settles the cases the same way In 1998 Mr Levine opened the Paul S Levine Literary Agency specializingin the representation of book authors and the sale of motion picture andtelevision rights in and to books Since starting his literary agency Mr Levine has sold over one-hundred fifty 150 fiction and non-fiction books to at leastfifty 50 different publishers and has had many books developed as movies-fortelevision and feature films