Development Internship - Business & Legal Affairs

Paid Intern, Blumhouse – Business & Legal Affairs 

Overview: Blumhouse is seeking interns to support our Business & Legal Affairs department for Spring 2025, from January 21st - May 16th. You will have the exciting opportunity to gain familiarity and learn the daily workflow of in-house counsel, providing production business affairs with various legal support duties set forth below.  In this role you will be exposed to the day-to-day responsibilities of a busy business and legal affairs department, and gain valuable experience in how to effectively communicate cross-departmentally and maintain both internal and external relationships.
 

Compensation: $18/hour (part time) and school credit available 

Qualifications:

• LA-based. 

• Internships are available to students who will be enrolled in a JD/LLM program in Spring 2025. 

• You must be available to intern part-time 15 to 20 hours per week from January 21, 2025 to May 16, 2025. 

• Internship will be in person in the Koreatown office with some hybrid work from home days needed. 

• Prefer in-house entertainment business/legal affairs or entertainment law firm experience, with a desire to work in film & television production, but not required.

• Ability to work collaboratively on cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Learning business practices and identifying legal issues relevant to entertainment law, including IP ownership, entertainment litigation, union/guild requirements, and employment concerns;
 • Researching and analyzing IP issues connected with ownership of rights and chain of title, including copyright, trademark, rights of publicity, privacy, and AI issues;
 • Assisting and supporting film production business affairs in preparing and submitting legal deliverables to distributors, such as credit statement obligations, paid ads requirements, publicity service obligations, and so forth;
 • Analyzing, negotiating, structuring and drafting day-to-day production legal paperwork, including certificates of engagement, waivers and releases, contract deal summaries, and talent agreements;
• Supporting a wide variety of entertainment-related legal matters in connection with the development, production, and distribution of the company’s film and television slate.