David Boyle
Lecturer
For over 30 years, providing business and legal affairs and strategic planning expertise to preeminent independent production, finance and distribution companies in the motion picture industry. Handles business and legal affairs for several major independent production companies, including the producers and financiers of the following representative productions:
Licorice Pizza
Idea of You
The Wolf of Wall Street
Arrival
The Mule
The Lighthouse
The Witch
Daddy’s Home
Triangle of Sadness Killers of the Flower Moon
Daddio
King Richard
Call Me by Your Name
Halloween (2018)
I, Tonya
Summer of Soul
Ad Astra
Milk
For over 12 years, previously oversaw all business operations of Radar Pictures, including finance, corporate development and strategic planning, led negotiations for all development, production, financing and distribution agreements with talent and major studios, and supervised all administrative functions of the company. During tenure, Radar’s movies generated nearly $2 billion in worldwide revenue. Contributions included managing the company’s successful alliance with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes, leading negotiations for such films as The Last Samurai, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and The Amityville Horror (2005), and overseeing the financing and administration of the company’s $100 million film fund with JPMorgan and D. E. Shaw & Co.
Previously, a legal and business affairs executive for Propaganda Films, a seminal music video, commercial, television and motion picture production company, where served as production counsel on commercials and music videos envisioned by such directors as Michael Bay, Gore Verbinski and Antoine Fuqua and on such films as David Fincher’s The Game and Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich. Since 2003, a member of the Executives Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and serves on the Academy’s Nominating Committee for Best International Feature Film. Headed UCLA School of Law’s prestigious Entertainment Symposium for three (3) of the most successful years in its history and continues to serve on its Advisory Board. Earned Bachelor of Arts degree in English from University of California, Berkeley. Graduated cum laude from Tulane Law School, where a member of the Board of Editors of the law review, before beginning career in private practice.
