Jason Zelin

Legal Counsel

Jason has extensive experience in many facets of the entertainment industry, from both legal and business perspectives. In addition to working at private law firms, Jason has worked inside the entertainment industry in several capacities for Warner Bros. Television, Lorimar Entertainment, The Completion Bond Company, Village Roadshow Pictures, Miramax Films and others.

Practice Areas
Jason has negotiated talent deals, network licensing agreements, literary acquisitions as well as scripted and unscripted television development and production. Working outside film studios, he bonded more than $100 million in budgeted new films, and served as a primary liaison with studios. When working as part of film studios, Jason also gained experience supervising all legal and business aspects of multi-national productions, and as COO of a production company he developed film projects at Paramount and Dreamworks with such notables as Ridley and Tony Scott, Will Smith, and Janet Yang.

Jason has particular experience with the financing of film production. He has regularly negotiated the terms of “negative pickup” deals and distribution agreements; arranged film guarantees; and handled negotiations for the bank financing and bonding of films, as well as the creation of insurance-backed film funds. As a result of his extensive experience, Jason is able to provide valuable insight into many aspects of the entertainment industry garnered from his many decades “in the trenches.”

Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham LLP is a California law firm with offices in Beverly Hills.