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$MIKP Acquires Rights to 'Biker' Mystery Series by Legendary Creator Mike Baron https://shorturl.at/auL02
Mike Baron’s Acclaimed ‘Biker’ Series to be Developed for the Silver Screen
August 10, 2023
Arowana Media Holdings just announced it has acquired the tv/film and other media rights to Mike Baron’s acclaimed Biker, a series of novels that comprise the Bad Road Rising tales. Baron is the writer of more than 1000 comic books and numerous novels. As most of our readers already know, Baron made a name for himself in the comics industry with a legendary five-year run on Marvel Comics’ first ongoing series for The Punisher, Marvel’s popular anti-hero has been adapted for screen a number of times, most recently in the eponymous Netflix series.
In the Biker series, protagonist Josh Pratt is an outlaw biker turned private investigator in a genre-bending confluence of biker and detective lore, twisting like an F5 tornado through authentic landscapes and subcultures such as the renown Sturgis Biker Rally, a Midwest college campus, the politically turbulent lands of the Okapachee Sioux, the bizarre world of the occult, and the deadly criminal underground of the Paraguayan jungles. All the while, crossing paths with arms dealers, bull breeders, cult leaders, kidnappers, exotic animal traffickers, and even his estranged father, who abandoned him at a truck stop when he was 15 years old.
Baron first published Biker, his first novel, in 2014. He’s gone on to write a total of nine novels in the ongoing series published through Wolfpack Publishing.
Producers Rich Angell and Mark B. Newbauer see great potential in adapting this world to screen. Newbauer says, “Mike Baron’s Bad Road Rising is a marriage of classic hard-boiled noir and modern-day pulp, evoking Elmore Leonard (Out of Sight, Get Shorty) and likeable anti-heroes like Jack Reacher, with plots that twist in unexpected directions, peppered with increasingly diverse characters, often on the fringe of society.”
Arowana also recently acquired the worldwide film, television and streaming rights for the Vampirella property from Dynamite, with the deal reportedly including “all Vampirella stories, characters and derivative works.”
Mike The Pike Productions is a publicly traded media holdings company operating through its subsidiary Arowana Media Holdings, Inc. (ArowanaMedia.com), a fan-owned entertainment studio focused on IP Acquisitions, Development and Production, and building a diverse portfolio of IP for the entertainment marketplace. It does this via its flagship subsidiary, Mike the Pike Entertainment, LLC, which will acquire, incubate and develop IP which can then be used to complement horizontally integrated subsidiaries focused in Film/Television/Streaming, Publishing, Software/Gaming, esports, AR/VR, Web3, Metaverse, and Artificial Intelligence.
NOTE: The aforementioned 'Biker' was NOT included in Q2 filing because 'Biker' was announced August 9 -10, 2023. Which is outside the scope of the filing which covers Q2 (period through June 30, 2023).
IP section of $MIKP (Arowana Holdings) Filing
The Company’s assets are primarily in the form of Intellectual Property rights and currently include rights in the exclusive motion picture, television, DVD, Internet (i.e., a program, web series or movie derived from the Work), and all subsidiary, allied, and ancillary rights to the Ella Clah series of novels by Aimee and David Thurlo, which books in the Series are entitled “Blackening Song”, “Death Walker”, “Bad Medicine”, “Enemy Way”, “Shooting Chant”, “Red Mesa”, “Changing Woman”, Plant Them Deep”, “Tracking Bear”, “Wind Spirit”, “White Thunder”, Mourning Dove”, Turquoise Girl”, “Coyote’s Wife”, “Earthway”, “Neverending Snake”, “Black Thunder”, and “Ghost Medicine”. Rights under Option for Purchase include all right, title and interest of every kind or nature whatsoever in and to the Work including all rights under copyright, and Producer shall have the right to develop, make, sell, produce, distribute, exhibit, broadcast (including without limitation, free broadcast, pay television, cable, subscription, pay-per- view, video-on-demand, DVD and Internet), advertise, publicize, license, record and otherwise exploit the Work and all other publications, productions and other derivative works based upon the Work in any and all languages, formats, manners and media, whether now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe in perpetuity, subject only to the Reserved Rights, which consist of print publication and stage rights.
Ella Clah is currently in development...A Presentation Deck based on the IP has been created by the Company and we have secured an Emmy award winning Executive Producer to collaborate with us on developing the project and shopping to studios.
As well, we hold rights to the comic book series and certain characters in the Vampirella universe including the characters below: 1. Vampirella 2. Pendragon 3. Adam Van Helsing 4. Conrad Van Helsing 5. Lilith 6. Mad God Chaos 7. Blood Red Queen Of Hearts 8. Mistress Nyx 9. Hemmorhage 10. Von Kreist 11. Trixie Fattoni 12. Pixie Fattoni 13. Don Fattoni 14. Draculina 15. Passion 16. Monsignor Pesaro 17. Skaar 18. Passion 19. Tyler Westron 20. Anuberis 21. Tristan 22. The Scarlett Legion (Team) 23. The Sisterhood (Team) 24. Chelsea Cantrell 25. Ethan Shroud 26. The Unseelie Congress (collective of supernatural creatures) 27. Vampirella Army 28. Madek & Magdelene 29. The Kabal 30. Lorelei 31. Botis 32. Bazrys 33. Delilah William 34. Goodman William 35. Sophia 36. Le Fanu 37. Schuld 38. Cestus Dei 39. Yag-Ath Vermellus 40. Ikari: Sister of Rage from The Karasu Shimai 41. Zetsobou: Sister of Despair from The Karasu Shimai 42. Kanki: Sister of Delight from The Karasu Shimai 43. Gregory 44. Bazrys 45. Pantha
with rights included to develop, make, sell, produce, distribute, exhibit, broadcast (including without limitation, free broadcast, pay television, cable, subscription, pay-per-view, video-on- demand, DVD and Internet), advertise, publicize, license, record and otherwise exploit an audiovisual production based on the Work and derivative audiovisual works based upon the Work (collectively, “Derivative Works”) in any and all languages, formats, manners and media, whether now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe in perpetuity, subject only to the Reserved Rights, which include Print Publication Rights, Live Stage Reading Rights, Live Stage Rights, and Radio Recital Rights Though there was a feature film based on the character Vampirella in 1996 as part of the ‘Roger Corman Presents’ series, the rights have since reverted to the publisher prior to the rights purchase agreement secured by the Company.
We are currently partnered with Dynamite Comics (the publisher) and a notable animation studio in Vancouver, Canada (with award winning animated series on Amazon (Kirkman’s ‘The Invincibles’) , and whose principle has produced a number of award-winning feature films (including Angry Birds, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Escape from Planet Earth) which have enjoyed worldwide distribution and revenue and/or critical success. We have agreed to produce an animated series based on the Vampirella universe as an inaugural project toward further exploitation of the rights for screen and otherwise. Though the information is currently confidential, we are happy to share copies of correspondence and agreements confidentially to support. We intend to monetize the project within the next 24 months.
We also have rights in Wish by Barbara O’Connor to include all motion picture, all television rights (pay, free, cable, and otherwise) all home video rights. and all allied, ancillary, and subsidiary rights in the Property, whether now known or hereafter devised (including without limitation prequel, sequel, and remake rights, music and music publishing rights, soundtrack recording, comic book rights, and graphic novel right; video game and interactive gaming rights, podcast rights and other exploitation rights, commercial tie-in and merchandising rights (including without limitation the exploitation and/or licensing of characters and other elements of the Property for all types of goods and services, theme parks, and other types of attractions), and all promotional publishing rights with the exception of novel publication rights. including print and nondramatic audio rights (i.e. so-called books-on-tape or e-books; rights) subject to 7,500 word (but no more than 10% of the text) promotional publication rights; the right to publish the text of the Property electronically; the right to broadcast the text of the Property, whether in installments or otherwise, by television or radio in single-voice, non-dramatic readings {subject to Purchaser's right at all limes to exercise its television and radio rights for purposes of advertising, promoting, publicizing, and/or otherwise exploiting any production based on the Property; live stage rights; and all rights in all Owner- written and Owner-authorized sequels (provided that Purchaser shall have a rolling right of first negotiation and last refusal to option any such sequels).
Also, the Company has a shopping agreement to produce ‘Silverwing’ based on the Kenneth Oppel book series with the founder of Bardel Entertainment (the original producer of the Canadian series produced in 2003). The founder retained the rights to Silverwing and is in collaboration with Company to adapt the series to screen seeking worldwide distribution alongside the development and production process. To date, a lookbook/deck has been completed for the project including 45% participation for Mike The Pike once, and if, a project is produced. Parties have agreed in good faith and intends to formalize the agreement by late June 2023.
The Company also has an 11.3% stake in net profits to the film “Beyond White Space”, which is anticipated to breakeven this year. The Company was a financier on the film, and its principal, Mark Newbauer, a producer on the film which enjoyed a theatrical release in December 2018 and is now streaming on various platforms. It is distributed by Vertical Entertainment and the trailer can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RihSzdaCtc.
OUR CURRENT PROPERTIES/PROJECTS
SILVERWING A small bat’s curiosity leads to an adventure filled odyssey in the acclaimed Silverwing from award-winning author, Kenneth Oppel, which has sold over a million copies worldwide.
ELLA CLAH Ella Clah – a Native American FBI agent must return to the reservation to solve her father’s murder, setting in motion a struggle between traditionalist and modernist forces in this critically acclaimed mystery series by Aimée and David Thurlo.
VAMPIRELLA UNIVERSE One of our featured projects is the iconic Vampirella universe. It tells the story of a vengeful angel of death who comes to Earth, and soon decides to change her way of thinking, vowing never to take a life without a good reason. Vampirella has become the longest-running English-language vampire comic book of all time.
WISH Wish, written by award-winning author Barbara O’Connor, comes a middle-grade novel about a girl who with the help of a true-blue friend, a big hearted aunt and uncle, and the dog of her dreams, unexpectedly learns the true meaning of family in the least likely of places.
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