International Production Entertainment Industry Legal News Podcast

On this episode of French Insider, Tim Stephen, EVP of Technique and Head of Enterprise & Authorized Affairs at Gaumont Movie US, the Los Angeles-based TV manufacturing arm of French movie studio Gaumont, joins host and Sheppard Mullin lawyer Alex Akhavan to debate the challenges and rewards of inner manufacturing and leisure, together with how streaming has modified the enterprise of leisure, the cultural and authorized variations productions sometimes encounter exterior america and the assorted causes manufacturing firms would possibly select to movie in different international locations and territories.

What We Mentioned in This Episode

• What are you able to inform us about Gaumont Movie US and your position there?

• What are just a few initiatives Gaumont Movie US has produced in america?

• How typically are you filming exterior america?

• How would you describe the connection between Gaumont Movie US and its French father or mother firm?

• Do you ever discover that Gaumont Movie US and its French father or mother are producing related IP concurrently?

• What cultural and authorized variations have you ever encountered, each within the context of Gaumont and whereas producing elsewhere on this planet?

• Why would Gaumont or one other studio select to movie exterior america?

• What different modifications have you ever seen within the leisure {industry}?

• What do you get pleasure from in regards to the work you do? What motivates you, and what are you most enthusiastic about?

About Tim Stephen

Tim Stephen has greater than 20 years of govt expertise throughout a broad vary of entertainment-industry disciplines, together with enterprise and authorized affairs, tv growth and manufacturing and worldwide co-financing. As EVP of Technique and Head of Enterprise & Authorized Affairs, he oversees enterprise and authorized issues for movie, tv, animation and distribution for Gaumont Fim US, a subsidiary of French movie studio Gaumont.

Gaumont Movie US produces drama and comedy programming for each the U.S. and worldwide markets, together with Hannibal, which aired on NBC from April 2013 – August 2022, in addition to the Golden Globes-winning drama Narcos, at present airing on Netflix.

About Alex Akhavan

Alex Akhavan is an affiliate within the Leisure, Know-how and Promoting Follow Group in Sheppard Mullin’s Century Metropolis, California workplace, the place he represents producers, studios, media firms and networks in reference to leisure productions all through america and around the globe.

Along with advising Gaumont Movie US on issues of clearance and manufacturing, Alex has served as manufacturing counsel to Campanario Leisure. He additionally leads the agency’s Disney Tv Animation and Amazon Studios’ unscripted groups and often negotiates growth and manufacturing agreements on behalf of Disney, Amazon and Univision.