Anne Blakemore Easton

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Associate

  Firm Name

  Sheppard Mullin
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Representative Matters: Negotiated talent agreements on behalf of Sister Pictures in conjunction with a co-production with Amazon Studios on the television project The Power.
  Seconded to Amazon Studios legal department in 2021, overseeing all aspects of studio television development in-house.
  Seconded to TelevisaUnivision in Miami, Florida just after Univision's acquisition of Televisa
  oversaw development
  production legal related matters in the linear television, podcast
  radio divisions.
  Counsel to TelevisaUnivision in connection with various entertainment
  podcast projects in development
  production.
  Represented Amazon Studios in negotiations relating to the rights deal to the Parker crime novels by Richard Stark, which included analysis of the late Donald E. Westlake's Estate documents, as well as the corresponding above-the-line talent deals on the Play Dirty project, including those for Robert Downey, Jr.
  his producing partner, Susan Downey, Shane Black
  Joel Silver.
  Counsel to Big Teeth Productions, a woman-owned production company producing documentaries out of Chicago, IL.
  Outside production counsel to Amazon Studios on the television series LOL: Mexico
  negotiated Eugenio Derbez' host agreement, among others.
  Negotiated Overall Agreements on behalf of Disney Television Animation with high-level talent, including Leo Lawrence, Tom Rogers, Calvin Brown
  Jack Ferraiolo.
  Represented Disney Television Animation in negotiations relating to the development
  production of Fabiola!, Hamster & Gretel, Marvel's Moon Girl,
  Devil Dinosaur,
  several other animated television projects.
  Negotiated above-the-line talent, production
  heads of department deals for the first
  second seasons of Amazon Studios' television series Rings of Power.
  Contributed to the chain-of-title review of MGM documents in Amazon Studios' recent $8.5B acquisition of MGM Studios.
  Represented Spotify in its negotiations of various podcast productions
  shows.
  Represented the Los Angeles Opera in various productions.
  Represented a foster mother who adopted two young boys.
  Representing an Afghan Refugee as she seeks permanent asylum in the United States.
  Prior to joining Sheppard Mullin, provided legal representation to the Mark Gordon Company in its sale to eOne.