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$MIKP @barbaraoconnor 's Wish still in TOP 5 new york times bestsellers this week! Go Barbara! Go Charlie! Go Wishbone! Go @ArowanaOfficial !!! pic.twitter.com/uvzFR213yl
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'Wish’: Joey Clarke Jr. To Adapt Barbara O’Connor’s New York Times Bestseller For The Screen
By Matt Grobar
EXCLUSIVE: Arowana Media Holdings’ Mike The Pike Entertainment has optioned Barbara O’Connor’s New York Times bestseller Wish, tapping Nicholl Fellowship recipient Joey Clarke Jr. to adapt it for the big screen.
The novel is about a girl who unexpectedly learns the true meaning of family in the least likely of places, with the help of a friend, her loving aunt and uncle, and the dog of her dreams.
Its protagonist is 11-year-old Charlie Reese, who has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. When she is sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with family she barely knows, it seems unlikely that her wish will ever come true. That is, until she meets Wishbone, a skinny stray dog who captures her heart, and Howard, a neighbor boy who proves surprising in lots of ways. Suddenly, Charlie is in serious danger of discovering that what she thought she wanted may not be what she needs at all.
Former CAA agent Jon Levin (Marshall, Breadwinner) is producing the film adaptation with Mike The Pike Entertainment’s Rich Angell and Mark B. Newbauer.
“Our team fell in love with this story immediately. Barbara O’Connor is a truly talented storyteller who, in Wish, has created a cast of highly relatable characters against a deceptively simple backdrop,” said Newbauer. “The book explores tough situations with grace, charm, and humor, and it’s easy to see why this has been on a New York Times Top 10 list for quite some time now. We are thrilled with the opportunity to bring this high-spirited, emotionally potent tale to screen in what we feel can be a family classic for years to come.”
“Wish is a story that both children and adults are drawn to and love. It’s been such an honor that the book has won eight state children’s choice awards, which are nominated by adults and voted on by children,” added O’Connor. “It’s an honor to be a part of this great team.”
'Wish', by Barbara O'Connor -- keeping hope alive in difficult times (ages 9-12)
Children face difficult times throughout their lives -- fighting with good friends, losing an animal you love, conflict at home, struggles with schoolwork. Figuring out how to keep hope alive in the face of these difficulties is a crucial part of growing up.
Charlie faces a heap of trouble in Barbara O'Connor's book 'Wish', but each and every day she makes a wish. Through her stubborn, fiery personality (or maybe despite it?), she keeps hope that her life will get better. This was a perfect book to read at the end of this turbulent year -- I hope you find hope in its pages.
'WISH', N.Y. Times Bestseller
by Barbara O'Connor
Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese is sent to live with an aunt and uncle she's never met before when her family falls apart. Her father is in jail, and her mother won't get out of bed, so Charlie must stay with Aunt Bertha and Uncle Gus until her mother can get her "feet on the ground" again. Charlie feels forgotten, dumped in a small town far away from everything that she knows, while her sister gets to live with her best friend.
Charlie struggles with her "fiery red temper," with her anger, with her worries. Young readers will relate to these feelings--worrying that her mama won't get better, or feeling angry that everyone is ignoring her.
"What was I doing there on that porch with these people I didn't even know? I felt like I'd been tossed out on the side of the road like a sack of unwanted kittens."
Every day, Charlie makes a wish--she has a whole list of all the different ways to make a wish, "like seeing a white horse or blowing a dandelion." She never tells anyone what her wish is, but readers quickly realize it's to live with her family, to go home. But what do you do when your wish doesn't come true?
Things start to turn around when Charlie befriends a stray dog she names Wishbone.
"I knew what it felt like to be a stray, not having a home where somebody wanted you. And he was a fighter. Like me. That dog and I had a lot in common. I was suddenly overwhelmed with love for that skinny dog."
O'Connor skillfully develops this story, showing Charlie's struggle in her new home, the way she's so stubbornly focusing on what she doesn't have that she doesn't see the goodness of her new home. Instead of becoming sappy, this story resonates with poignant vulnerability and the power of friendship.
I especially love the way that Aunt Bertha focuses on Charlie's positive side, instead of quickly criticizing her. Her childhood stories give Charlie a sense of history and a sense that things will be okay, even if they're difficult now. Aunt Bertha reminds me of some of these lessons about helping students develop hope from the Greater Good Science Center -- especially telling stories of success, and keeping things light and positive:
"Helping our students cultivate hope might be one of the most important things we do for them. Not only will it help them get more A’s in the short-run; it’ll give them the confidence and creativity to reach their long-term goals in school and in life."
I want to send special thanks to Kirby Larson for recommending this book to me--she's so right that it quickly became one of my favorites this year. Share this with children who have loved reading realistic stories.
Mike the Pike Productions, Inc.
Wed, August 9, 2023 at 8:30 AM EDT·3 min read
Mike The Pike acquires book series by Eisner Award winning author/writer behind The Punisher, The Flash, Nexus, and Badger
SCOTTSDALE, AZ / ACCESSWIRE / August 9, 2023 / Mike The Pike Productions, Inc. (OTC PINK:MIKP) ("The Company"), ($MIKP), a fan-owned entertainment studio focused in the acquisition, development, and production of entertainment intellectual property through its wholly owned subsidiary Arowana Media Holdings, is pleased to announce it has acquired the tv/film and other media rights to Biker, a series of novels that comprise the Bad Road Rising series by prolific creator Mike Baron, who has written more than 1000 comic books throughout his career as well as numerous novels.
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 series of white knuckle mysteries, 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.
MIKP producers Rich Angell and Mark B. Newbauer, MIKP CEO see great potential in adapting this world to screen. Newbauer states, "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."
Mike Baron is also the creator of Nexus and Badger, two of the longest-lasting independent superhero comics. He has also won two Eisner Awards, an Inkpot Award and written on The Flash, Batman and Star Wars among many other titles. Baron has also published 15 novels and has recently completed the draft for Book #10 in the Biker series.
In addition to the ‘Biker' series, Mike The Pike Entertainment is pleased to announce it has also finalized terms on yet another acquisition of legacy IP for its portfolio-noted by critics and fans alike as a ‘literary masterpiece'. Stay tuned….
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WARNING: Substance may be addicting and cause sleeplessness. If you start this novel, you may not want to put it down!
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.
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).
We are currently partnered with Imprint Family Entertainment (Groove Tails) and its principals, including Michael Becker (https://deadline.com/2021/07/maryann-garger-michael-becker-launch- imprint-family-entertainment-1234797003/ ) with a finished screenplay by Nicholl fellow Joey Clarke Jr. (https://deadline.com/2021/08/wish-joey-clarke-jr-to-adapt-barbara-oconnor-book-for-the-screen-1234813761/ ) to produce as a feature film. We are currently out to directors and financiers to prepare for principle photography which we anticipate to be on or about Spring 2024.
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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