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Variety’s Legal Impact Report 2025: Meet Hollywood’s Top Entertainment Attorneys


Meet Hollywood's top entertainment dealmakers and litigators of 2025.

A member of the Focus team since the launch of the indie-minded division of Universal in 2002, Meyers oversaw a number of deals for movies from major directors in 2024, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Steven Soderbergh’s thriller “Black Bag,” Chloe Zhao’s historical drama “Hamnet,” the Ethan Coen comedy “Honey Don’t” and upcoming films from Wes Anderson and Robert Eggers. Popkin has cut deals for Joseph Quinn in “Gladiator 2” and as Johnny Storm/ Human Torch in the upcoming “Avengers: Doomsday,” Leo Wood­all in “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” and Milly Alcock in the upcom­ing “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” and renegotiated Chris Perfetti’s pact for “Abbott Elementary.” Other clients include Murray Bartlett (“Nine Perfect Strangers”) and Saura Lightfoot-Leon (“The Agency”). Image Credit: Vicky Gallion Taking the side of people accused of child pornography typically results in severe non-COVID social distancing, but when Kim details her recent high-profile cases — defending Nirvana, UMG and others in a suit over the iconic floating naked baby photo on the cover of the “Nevermind” album and a pair of successful anti-SLAPP motions for Paramount defeating lawsuits filed by actors Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey over 1968’s “Romeo and Juliet” — the ick tends to dissipate.

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