Shaun is a shareholder in the Firm’s Entertainment practice group.
Shaun’s practice encompasses all aspects of the entertainment industry, including film, television, podcasts, and new media. He is a Los Angeles native who was a senior attorney in business affairs at a media company prior to joining the firm in 2018.
Recent Deals
Sonoro Podcast ‘Princess of South Beach’ to Be Adapted to Series for Netflix
New Paul Giamatti Podcast ‘Chinwag’ from Treefort Media and Touchy Feely Films
Sonoro Partners with Latino Actors to Create New Content Imprints
Zosia Mamet to Lead in Sci-Fi Romcom “Molli & Max in the Future”
Diane Lane Joins Cast of “Feud” Season 2
Zosia Mamet Signs for Role in Madam Web
Diane Lane Joins Jeff Daniels In ‘A Man In Full’ Netflix Limited Series
Paramount+ to Produce Film Adaptation of Sonoro Podcast “Toxicomania”
NPR Podcast Host Guy Raz Strikes Deal With Amazon Music and Wondery
Steven Hein Launches Podcast Company Story Mill Media
Treefort Media to Produce New Weekly Podcast “Kasich & Klepper”
Paramount+ Orders Crime Drama Series “Happy Face”
Zosia Mamet Signs Two-Book Deal With Viking Penguin
Audible Partners With Treefort Media for Original Scripted Audio Series
Apple to Launch Original Audio Series Podcast about Siegfried & Roy
Tinkercast Developing Slate of Kid and Family Podcasts With Sony Music
New Comedy Pilot Ordered by Freeform ‘Single Drunk Female’
Treefort Media Strikes TV & Podcast Deal With Village Roadshow Entertainment Group
Melissa Moore is Executive Producer on Serial Killer TV Show ‘Happy Face’ Adapted from Podcast
Awards
Best Lawyers in America®, “Ones to Watch”, 2023, Entertainment and Sports Law
Variety Magazine’s Legal Impact Report, 2021
J.D., University of Southern California Gould School of Law
B.S., University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
In its official announcement earlier this week, Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation confirmed that Weintraub client Walt Dohrn (Trolls, Trolls World Tour) has returned as director in the third installment of the animated musical franchise Trolls. Weintraub client Zosia Mamet is also named among the A-list cast. The threequel, named…
The hit bilingual podcast Princess of South Beach, produced by Weintraub client Sonoro Media, is set to be adapted to a series for Netflix. Gina Rodriguez (Jane The Virgin) will executive produce the project along with Sonoro, Jasmine Romero, and iHeart’s My Cultura Network. The podcast is the top performing…
Actor Paul Giamatti will co-host a new podcast series, Chinwag, alongside author and philosopher Stephen Asma. The series, produced by WT client Treefort Media and Giamatti’s Touchy Feely Films, will explore such topics as aliens, conspiracies and altered states of consciousness in weekly episodes. It is set to launch on…
Weintraub client Sonoro has partnered with actors Manolo Cardona and Martha Higareda to help them create their own imprints of original audio content. Cardona is developing a new slate of shows, the first of which, Cuba 58, will premiere in the first quarter of this year. Higareda is focusing on…
Weintraub clients Orbit Media and Sonoro have teamed up to create a series of three investigative podcast documentaries which will be produced under a new audio imprint. The podcasts, which will be released first in Spanish and then translated into other languages including English, are set to shed light on…
Weintraub client Zosia Mamet, known for her role as Annie Mouradian in the HBO Max original series The Flight Attendant, leads opposite Saturday Night Live’s Aristotle Athari in a sci-fi romantic comedy Molli & Max in the Future.
Weintraub client Diane Lane is set to join the cast of Ryan Murphy’s Feud on FX, along with Tom Hollander, Naomi Watts, and Calista Flockhart.
Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that 19 of its attorneys have been recognized in the 29th edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Additionally, six of our attorneys have been named to the third edition of the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, and one attorney, Kay Brooks, was named the…
Weintraub client Zosia Mamet (The Flight Attendant, Girls) has signed on for a role in the upcoming Sony Pictures film Madame Web, an adaptation of the Marvel comics by writer Denny O’Neil and artist John Romita Jr.
Weintraub client Diane Lane has been cast in the Netflix limited series “A Man in Full,” based on the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name. Lane will star alongside Jeff Daniels. David E. Kelly will write, executive produce, and serve as showrunner for the series. Weintraub client Tommy Schlamme…
Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that attorneys Tara Sattler, Shaun Gordon, and Jamie Lincenberg have been selected to the 2022 Southern California Rising Star list. This list, compiled by Super Lawyers®, recognizes attorneys who are 40 or younger or have been in practice less than 10 years. Each year…
A popular podcast by Weintraub client Sonoro Media will be adapted into a film for Paramount+. The podcast, titled Toxicomania tells the story of a Mexican doctor who led a revolution during the 1940’s to legalize drug use in the country. It is a fictional story based on real-life events.…
On March 27, 2022 CODA won all three Academy Awards for which it was nominated (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay). It made history as the first film with a predominantly Deaf cast and the first film produced by a streaming service (Apple TV+) to win Best…
