Growthink and Lee Muhl Featured in 'The Deal'March, 2008 -
Here is the text from the piece: Hooray for Hollywood
Lee
Muhl, the son of Universal Studios Inc. production chief
Eddie Muhl, grew up on movie studio lots, where he
walked around sets, ate at the commissary, and procured autographs from actors
Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson and family friend Sidney Poitier.
Though he was in love with movies, watching them at screenings or at home, Muhl decided to go to UCLA School of Law to become a
litigator.
"I
went to law school because I disliked injustice and wanted to be in
public-interest litigation," says Muhl, 51. But upon
arriving at Pacht, Ross, Warner, Bernhard and Sears,
Muhl quickly abandoned that path to join the firm's
entertainment department on the advice of a colleague who told him "instead of
saving the world, you should entertain the world."
Muhl may not be
entertaining the world these days, but he is helping to advise those who do.
Muhl has just been named a managing partner and head
of the entertainment and new-media practice at Growthink Inc., a Los Angeles-based firm that
provides advisory services to small and medium-sized companies. Muhl has spent the past two years as an adviser to Growthink's media and entertainment clients, helping them
with business strategy, financial modeling, project
valuation and distribution concepts.
He
knows these areas well. After Pacht Ross, Muhl went on to advise Hollywood luminaries such as Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, Rob Cohen and others, assisting on
structuring deals for films like "Blade Runner," "48 Hrs." and "Midnight
Express" while at law firm Pollock, Bloom and Dekom.
In
Muhl starting working with Growthink after a foray into Internet content delivery as
the CEO of a now-defunct dot-com that combined entertainment and education for
teenagers. So far, he says the interest
entertainment companies have shown in Growthink's
services have pleased him.
"I
think they think we are kind of cool," Muhl says.
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Growthink and Lee Muhl are featured in the March 3rd "Movers and Shakers" section of The Deal (