Juliette Youngblood - Entertainment Attorney. President, Youngblood Group PC.
Juliette Youngblood’s career has encompassed an impressive cross-section of Hollywood’s award-winning production companies, networks and studios including Paramount Pictures and CBS Corporation.
Awards/Accolades:
Juliette Youngblood was named 2010 Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by the Century City Bar Association.
Ms. Youngblood is recognized as a top US attorney by Southern California Super Lawyers; Southern California’s Best Lawyers; Who's Who in American Law, Best Lawyers in America; LawDragon 500; and The Legal 500.
She is ranked as a top media and entertainment transactional lawyer by Chambers and Partners.
She has received Distinguished Alumni Awards from Loyola Law School and Fitchburg State University.
Boards/Memberships:
The Paley Center's Media Council (an invitation-only membership community for high-level industry executives).
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (voting member).
USC-BHBA Institute on Entertainment Law, a 50-year tradition in the industry – has been on the Planning Committee chaired by renowned attorney, Bruce Ramer, for the past eight years – Ms. Youngblood moderated the 2012 Institute's panel, Hitting a Home Run: From YouTube to Riches.
Los Angeles Copyright Society (and former Board member).
Women in Film.
Education:
Juliette Youngblood received her JD, cum laude, from Loyola Law School, her MA from the University of Virginia, and her BA and BS, summa cum laude, from Fitchburg State University.
Notable Projects:
Burning Love – Juliette Youngblood negotiated one of the first-ever overall deals to develop original digital media properties with Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films. She recently finalized the continuation of that deal and structured the licensing of tv rights to E! Entertainment Television for Season 1 of the hit Paramount/Red Hour Internet series, Burning Love. Burning Love’s first season won Streamy Awards for Best Comedy Series, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Male Performance: Comedy – Ken Marino, and Best Guest Appearance – Ken Jeong. Juliette Youngblood also completed a multi-season deal with Yahoo! for Burning Love Seasons 2 and 3, along with a first of its kind advertising deal for PHD’s sponsorship of Seasons 2 and 3 of the Burning Love digital series.
Viacom's $2.5 billion acquisition of DreamWorks.
Nickelodeon's acquisition of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – worked on the contracts for the film directed by Simon West.
Survivor – thirty-four cycles of the Emmy Award winning tv series.
The Apprentice – multiple cycles of the tv series hosted by Donald Trump.
Mission: Impossible – worked on agreements for the film; orchestrated the first digital partnership between a studio and major high-tech firm to promote a specific movie when Apple Computer and Paramount teamed up for an innovative $15 million cross-promotional blitz of the first MI movie. Ms. Youngblood structured Apple's and BMW's ambitious tie-in campaigns for MI and a first of its kind accompanying webisode series on the Internet. These revolutionary deals became the template for many subsequent blockbuster films.
Ms. Youngblood structures digital deals with global Internet companies such as Yahoo! and Machinima.
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