Jon Brown <\/strong>was born in 1956 and raised in Beverly Hills and Malibu, Jon Brown was attending Beverly Hills High School in 1972 when he realized that he wanted to follow in his father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s footsteps and become a literary agent. His mother, Myra Berry Brown, was the author of seventeen children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books, so the literary bug was definitely in his blood.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

From 1974 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 1978, Jon attended UC Santa Barbara. The next year, Jon began formal training with his father, Ned Brown, one of Hollywood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most prominent author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agents and head of MCA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s literary division for many years. Jon learned the business from the ground up, by sitting on his father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s couch in his small, one room office, while reading all the various contracts his father had made for his famous clients. Clients such as Jackie Collins, Carlos Castaneda, Leigh Brackett, Frank Herbert, John Michael Hayes, Dorothy Kingsley, William Bradford Huie, Edmond Hamilton, Paul Gallico and Wilbur Smith to name but a few. In 1979, he started representing his own authors and screenwriters. Jon moved to Van Nuys in 1980 with his new bride and the following year, he converted his garage into a working office, where he would hang his hat from for the next several years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0In 1982, Jon took a break from agenting and after a brief 3 week stint as Henry Rogers (of Rogers & Cowan Public Relations) personal assistant, he went back to agenting on his own for the next 6 years. In 1988, Jon was approached by Agency For The Performing Arts to become a VP on the feature literary division and decided to take his first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153real\u00e2\u20ac\u009d job at a large Hollywood agency. He got a thorough taste of corporate agenting and five years later, realized that working for a large agency wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t conducive with his entrepreneurial spirit. So, he decided to try his hand at producing motion pictures. After leaving APA, he very quickly set up and made at Interscope\/Disney \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Ties That Bind\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in 1993 which starred Daryl Hannah and Keith Carradine. The movie bombed at the box office.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Over the next two years, Jon set up several screenplays and books at various studios to produce, but quickly realized that the life of an independent producer is a lonely one and he missed the action of phones ringing off the hook, and the selling of writers and books but didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to go back to agenting and instead decided to become a literary manager. In this newfound capacity, Jon could still participate in the fast paced life of sales and representation of writers and directors and<\/em> still produce movies, something licensed agents were precluded from doing. After being on his own for the next several years, Jon met and subsequently decided to partner with Jeff Thal in 1999, who was one of the first people in Hollywood to become a literary manager in the early 1990\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Together, they formed Ensemble Entertainment and today represent many top name screen writers, directors and authors both in television and motion pictures. In 2003, Jon produced the remake of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Poseidon Adventure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for NBC and Robert Halmi. He continues to have several movies and series set up at the various studios and today, all are slowly moving forward towards production. Some of his clients include directors Derrick Borte (Unhinnged)., Ron Underwood, (Tremors\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153City Slickers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), Anthony Fabian (Mrs Harrisw goes to Paris), writers James V Hart (Hook, Dracula, Frankenstein, August Rush, Contact, Last Mimsy), \u00a0Richard Friendenberg (The River Runs Through It, Dying Young), Mort Nathan (Analyse This, King Pin, Boat Trip), directors Christian Alvart (upcoming Case 39, Pandorum), and estates of authors Paul Gallico (Posiedon Adventure, The Pride Of The Yankees), Leigh Brackett (The Empire Strikes Back, Rio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hondo, Bravo and Lobo), Edmond Hamilton (The Man With X Ray Eyes) and The Estate Of Harold Robbins<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Movies and television I have produced:The Tie That Binds \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Interscope\/Disney, Pompeii \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Constantine Films, The Poseidon Adventure \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Halmi NBC, Starstruck \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Disney Channel, Liar, Liar Vampire – Nickelodeon<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n