Marshalls & Dent & Wilmoth Lawyers is Australia’s oldest and most experienced entertainment law practice with over 45 years of service in the film and television industry. We represent producers and other entertainment practitioners in all facets of the industry, and have extensive dealings and experience with government funding bodies, independent and established producers and production companies, the major and mini-major United States studios, the talent agencies, international and domestic streaming platforms, sales agents and distributors worldwide.

Services

Our services include providing legal advice on:
· All elements of feature film, television and documentary financing and production
· International and domestic co-production agreements
· International and domestic distribution and acquisition agreements
· Chain of title and underlying rights agreements
· Agency, talent and crew agreements
· Clearance and defamation

Our experienced team of entertainment lawyers provide practical solutions that help artists realise their vision and maximise the commercial potential of their intellectual property.

Across classics like Malcolm, Ten Canoes, Muriel’s Wedding and Shine, box office behemoths like Lion, Red Dog, Talk to Me and The Invisible Man, indie hits like Two Hands, The Babadook, The Sapphires, Force of Nature, Audrey, The Surfer, Runt, and Shayda, television series like The Newsreader (ABC), Black Snow (Stan), Safe Home (SBS), Strife (Binge), The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Amazon), and documentaries such as OneFour: Against All Odds (Netflix) and Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles (Amazon), Marshalls+dent+wilmoth’s dedicated team of entertainment lawyers have worked on some of Australia’s most commercially successful and critically acclaimed productions of all time.

E: erickards@mdlaw.com.au