PARTNERS
MIKE CALLAGHAN is a Founding Partner, Producer, and Head of Creative of RANGER 7 FILMS.
Before making a career transition to entertainment, Mike spent six years working for global advertising agency Arnold Worldwide in Washington, D.C., where he oversaw such clients as McDonald’s and Ruth’s Chris Steak House. The skills he developed in marketing – everything from orchestrating new product launches, handling PR crises, and creating live customer experience events – underlie his strategic approach to film development and production.
Following a brief stint working for a documentary producer at the Discovery Channel, Mike landed at MPCA, an independent production company most well known for the blockbuster comedy classic DUMB AND DUMBER, hit sequel DUMB AND DUMBER TO, and the Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning HBO film TAKING CHANCE. Straddling both the studio and independent worlds, Mike quickly rose to Vice President of Development and Production, producing over a dozen independent features while also developing and producing larger studio films at Disney, Universal, and DreamWorks.
Over the years, Mike has built an extensive network of both seasoned and up-and-coming writers and directors, and aside from original ideas, has developed film projects based on iconic Japanese IP, podcasts, novels, true stories, magazine articles, comic books, foreign language films, documentaries, and even a country-western song.
The son of a commercial and documentary filmmaker, Mike grew up in Annapolis, MD and holds a B.A. in Politics from Washington & Lee University. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA).
Full filmography available at: http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm2223240/.
REUBEN LIBER is a Founding Partner, Producer, and Head of Operations of RANGER 7 FILMS.
Reuben began his career with Twentieth Century Fox International Television in 1998 before moving into independent production and distribution at MPCA. Subsequent to joining MPCA, Reuben quickly rose to the position of Senior Vice President, Production & Development Operations, serving as a broad-based production and business affairs executive whose responsibilities encompassed the entire span of the company’s activities, ranging from negotiating co-production financing to concluding the sale of MPCA’s 250-title motion picture library.
His areas of expertise include development, talent packaging, production, sales, financing, and distribution, including the arrangement of co-production and distribution strategies with studio and international financiers and distributors, and sales and distribution, having negotiated rights for films from such diverse creators as Tim Allen, Stephen King, and the Broken Lizard comedy troupe. Reuben also provides broad-ranging consulting services to third party independent producers, sales companies, and intellectual property owners on motion picture and television production, financing, distribution, and licensing matters.
With his wide array of experience, Reuben enjoys the myriad challenges of micro-budget productions through budgets in the tens of millions of dollars, traditional media to new media, conventional investment structures to crowdfunding, and feature films to television series and longform programming.
Reuben grew up in San Diego, CA and holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Brandeis University. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA).
Full filmography available at: http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm1310547/.
