Our Team

Meet Our Team Member

MARK B. NEWBAUER

CEO, Producer Mark graduated from Columbia College Chicago where he studied filmmaking, screenwriting and producing. He spent considerable time at Chicago’s famous The Second City, writing, directing, and improvisational acting. As writer and producer of Dreamkiller, his short film won ‘Best of the Fest’ for historical fiction at the New York International Film and Video Festival concurrent to his work servicing talent and literary clients at BRS/The Gage Group. Newbauer formed Mike The Pike Entertainment, a subsidiary of Arowana Media Holdings. He successfully identifies, negotiates, and acquires rights to prominent intellectual property to present day with titles such as Vampirella (Dynamite Comics), Wish, Ella Clah, and Graeme Reynolds’ celebrated werewolf trilogy, High Moor. Newbauer recently produced the sci-fi/horror thriller ‘Beyond White Space’, starring Holt McCallany (Mindhunter, Wrath of Man, Lights Out).

RICH ANGELL

Producer An independent producer based in Cleveland, OH, Rich has produced or consulted on numerous Rich Angell is an independent producer based in Cleveland, Ohio. He has produced or consulted on numerous feature films over his 10-year career including Sophomore, starring Patrick Warburton, and After, starring Kathleen Quinlan, Diane Neal, and Pablo Schreiber. Angell founded a state-of-the-art production studio in a 4 million square foot former Kodak facility. He is a former board member of the renowned George Eastman Museum and has a Masters degree from the University of Rochester. Angell has been instrumental in securing prominent pieces of intellectual property such as Vampirella, Wish, Ella Clah, and Graeme Reynolds’ celebrated werewolf trilogy, High Moor.

STRATEGIC ALLIANCES

Brandon Milostan

Strategic Alliance; Entertainment Counsel

Brandon Milostan is a member of Greenberg Glusker’s entertainment group where he negotiates entertainment deals for emerging and established actors, writers, producers, directors, musicians, social media influencers, financiers and distribution and production companies. He works on traditional theatrical motion picture, television, and SVOD deals and applies this knowledge and background to an industry that is constantly reshaped by new media sources and emerging technologies. He ranked in the top 12 of his law school class and was recognized as a 5-time Masin Family Academic Excellence Gold Award Winner. Having completed his undergraduate and law school education at UCLA, Brandon, is a loyal UCLA football season ticket holder.

JON LEVIN

Producer Over the past four decades, Levin has forged one of the most respected careers in the Hollywood community. After graduating with honors from USC Law School, Jon worked for the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) for 38 years as a business affairs executive and motion picture and television literary agent. In 2017, he became Fourward’s Head of Motion Picture and Television Development and Production Divisions, and is now producing under his label Sustainable Imagination, and with Arowana Media’s Mike The Pike Entertainment. Jon is notably known for his specialized representation of iconic and compelling intellectual property from novels, graphic novels, comic books, and foreign films to life rights and his work in the animation, science fiction and fantasy, and historical and biographical worlds. He has packaged such diverse films and tentpole franchises such as: Miss Doubtfire, Midnight Run, Murder on the Orient Express, Ice Age, Hook, Little Miss Sunshine, Shrek, Mars Attacks!, and more.