Larry Levinson began his career as a Screenwriter on the television series Laverne & Shirley in 1982, and later in 1985, working for Cannon Entertainment, he wrote the Chuck Norris war picture Missing in Action 2.
The company was incorporated in 1993 in the state of California and has been in Business for 18 years.
With the expiration of RHI Entertainment's exclusive contract with Hallmark Channel, Levinson Productions became the channel's sole Producer. By 2007, LLP was joined by additional producers. His PixL cable channel began carriage on Dish Network in December 2010. In March 2012, Levinson Productions moved its Future productions' distribution from Sonar Entertainment, formerly RHI, to SevenOne International.
Levinson Productions began having troubles with various unions. In early 2009, LLP had drawn pickets from International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employees for using non-union crews on the NBC telemovie “Megastorm”. The company and RHI were filed against by Writers' Guild of America West in May 2009 for failure to paid residuals. In April 2014, LLP and its affiliates Hardstone Entertainment and Branwen Productions plus Crown Media Holdings, Hallmark Channel's parent company, were being taken to arbitration by the Writers' Guild of America over unpaid residuals for 38 movies.
In 2013, LLP Production Services started the city planning approval process to expand its studio lot to the adjacent property on Smith Road, Simi Valley, California. The proposal final when in front of the planning commission in May 2016.
