42West is one of the largest independently-branded entertainment publicity firms in the US — founded 2004 as The Dart Group, renamed 2006. Dolphin Entertainment subsidiary since 2017. Clients include Rihanna, Jennifer Garner, Wiz Khalifa.
The Hollywood PR firm that launched in 1950 with Paul Newman, Cary Grant, and Rita Hayworth dissolved in November 2025. Michael Nyman's Acceleration Community of Companies absorbed the survivors.
Leslie Sloane founded Vision PR in 2014 inside James Dolan's Madison Square Garden offices. The bi-coastal firm represents roughly fifty active clients including Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Rock, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Laverne Cox, Michael J. Fox, Katie Holmes, and Renée Zellweger. Profile of the founder, the firm, the Weinstein-era launch funding, and the It Ends With Us litigation.
