How We Work
What Stage Is Your Project In?
Our services are tailored to you
Creation
Contracts, clearances, and compliance can take your focus away from creativity. By partnering with us, we can simplify the process and avoid costly delays or mistakes.
Selling
Contracts, clearances, and compliance can take your focus away from creativity. By partnering with us, we can simplify the process and avoid costly delays or mistakes.
Buying
Contracts, clearances, and compliance can take your focus away from creativity. By partnering with us, we can simplify the process and avoid costly delays or mistakes.
Creation
Our Process
We partner with you from the beginning to provide you the guidance, training, and resources you and your team need to get your documents in order – whether that’s for your current project or in the normal course of your business operations.
We guide you through understanding:
- Which documents are key to avoiding liability risk
- How they should be structured
- What terms are necessary for future monetization
- How to maintain and update them effectively
While we are not a law firm and don’t draft or negotiate contracts, we can assist with creating non-contractual documents and ensuring you have everything required for compliance and legal delivery.
Enterprise Legal Analysis Services
Our team has worked in-house at industry titans including RLJ Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Warner Bros. Entertainment. We understand the complexities of operations within larger organizations. Our workflow is fully customizable, adapting to your specific needs.
Our team reviews your contracts and works closely with your IT, Legal, or Operations Departments to keep everything accurate and on schedule.
We’re experienced in bridging the gap between legal requirements and IT/operational workflows, helping maintain clear communication and ensuring your processes run smoothly and efficiently.
Our goal is to free you from the endless back-and-forth, allowing you to focus your attention on audience building and revenue generation.
Administrative Delivery Services
For the budget-conscious company, we offer administrative services for document collection and organization, without the document review. This saves you tremendous amounts of time.
(Keep in mind, these documents are not reviewed for legal compliance. They may get kicked back by the buyer for further revisions which could delay delivery approval. We suggest our comprehensive Pre-Delivery Document Review plus the Legal Delivery Servicing package for fastest turnaround and payment.)
Enterprise Legal Analysis Case Study: Paramount Pictures
We are proud to have played an integral role in
Paramount’s high-profile, large-scale project.
Project Outcome
This nearly year-long collaboration allowed us to
contribute to a critical, large-scale initiative at one of
the world’s leading studios.
The project itself was key to Paramount’s effort to
modernize their contract management processes.
Showbiz Consultants is proud to have been an
integral partner in Paramount’s successful transition
to a more efficient and dynamic contract
management system.
Overview
Paramount Pictures, the studio behind blockbusters like Mission Impossible and Transformers, enlisted Showbiz Consultants to provide legal analysis and support for the development of their new software system, Onset. This system was designed to serve as an integrated database and contract generation tool for various departments across the studio.
This nearly year-long project was a critical part of Paramount’s effort to modernize their contract management processes. By combining our legal expertise with efficient contract translation, Showbiz Consultants contributed to the successful launch of Onset.
Our Role
Our team played a crucial role in reviewing a wide array of contracts and collaborating with Paramount’s software development team in India. We translated complex legal agreements into a user-friendly online platform, ensuring that every legal clause was accurately represented in the digital environment.
By carefully interpreting the legal intent and implications of each contract provision, we helped developers build a system that met Paramount’s stringent legal standards.
Challenges and Solutions
Volume and Complexity: Paramount’s contracts spanned departments such as Creative Affairs and Marketing, requiring rapid and accurate analysis.
Cross-Department Collaboration: We facilitated clear communication between management, legal teams, and software developers, ensuring every contract reflected Paramount’s legal objectives.
Maintaining Legal Integrity: While transitioning contracts from paper to digital, we ensured that the legal intent remained consistent across both mediums.
Selling
Pre-Delivery Document Review
Once your project is completed or nearing completion, we ensure all your legal delivery documents are in order for distribution. If any documents are missing or incomplete, we guide you through the steps to fix them quickly and effectively.
Legal Delivery Servicing
We handle the delivery of your documents to sales agents or distributors and work directly with them to get everything approved, so you can get paid and/or bring your project to screen faster.
When it’s time to deliver your film to a sales agent or distributor, the legal documents will be scrutinized carefully. Whether you’ve followed our advice from the consultation phase or worked independently, we’ll gather all your documents, review them thoroughly, help correct any issues, and prepare them for final delivery. Distributors and sales agents will examine these documents in detail, and if they find errors, it can lead to serious delays, withholding of payment, or a costly, drawn-out approval process.
Don’t wait until the last minute—be ready from the start. Save time, avoid headaches, and get paid on time.
We’ll educate you on the entire process.
While we aren’t a law firm, we can complement your attorney’s services and offer affordable legal delivery support to fit your budget.
Buying
Acquisition Document Review
Our team has worked in-house at industry-leading companies such as Warner Music Group, RLJ Entertainment, and Wixen Publishing. Throughout our careers, we’ve assisted in legal delivery on over 10,000 films, television shows, and creative projects.
We ensure that the project’s legal delivery documents are complete and compliant to your satisfaction.
If they’re not, we collaborate directly with the producer or licensor to get everything in order.
Our comprehensive services include:
- Friendly communication with your licensors, vendors, and contractors
- Diligent collection of the required legal delivery documents on your delivery schedule
- Granular analysis of up to a dozen key data points in each document
- Reassuring confirmation of clean chain of title for intellectual property, music, production documents and clearances
- Expert analysis and options for various types of worldwide errors and omissions insurance
- Open communication with you to discuss any potential legal liability
Partnering with Showbiz Consultants is both practical and cost-effective. You can reduce your reliance on outside counsel, in-house legal teams, or seasonal full-time employees.
Save Time and Reduce Hassle
We shield your management and legal teams from time-consuming document review and correspondences:
- Figuring out the tangled mess of poorly organized or incomplete legal delivery
- Countless hours educating filmmakers that are unfamiliar with contracts
- Hand-holding impatient licensors
- Assessing your liability risk involved with questionable contract language or waiving requirements
- Constant back-and-forth with producers and sales agents trying to cut corners
- Meeting 3rd party licensees’ constantly changing demands
Our shared goal: a seamless, efficient delivery process.
Scalable for High Volumes
Facing a large volume of incoming legal deliveries?
Showbiz Consultants specializes in reviewing legal delivery for hundreds of titles simultaneously, supporting multiple companies and streaming platforms.
High-volume document review is our specialty—let us lighten your load.
Pricing
Pricing depends on various factors. We’ll discuss your specific situation and customize the best package for you.
- How many projects you are currently working with
- What stage your project is in
- How many documents are in your delivery schedule
- What documents you currently have and what needs to be created or collected
- What team members you currently have working on legal delivery
- The required depth of document analysis
- Your deadlines
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