Narrative Features & Premium Television

A production company building bold, character-driven stories for the world's biggest screens.

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About Us

Who We Are

MainStage Pictures is a production company focused on narrative feature films and premium television storytelling. We develop and produce distinctive, commercially minded work — partnering with award-winning directors, writers, and talent to bring ambitious stories to screen.

Founder & Producer

Brandon Gilberstadt

Head of Production at Superjacket Productions, delivering high-volume, premium television content to Paramount Pictures, and previously an actor. Brandon brings a producer's discipline and a performer's instinct for story to every project on the MainStage slate.

Founder & Producer

Mike Dickman

Actor and producer of feature films starring Golden Globe–winning casts, and previously a financier and sports executive. Mike pairs creative producing experience with a deep background in finance and dealmaking.

The Slate

Projects

A growing roster of feature films, partner productions, and television — spanning comedy, drama, horror, and high-concept franchise IP.

Where There's a Will

Period ComedyDevelopment

In 1870s England, a reckless, chauvinistic aristocrat disguises himself as a woman to help his sisters secure marriages and protect their inheritance from their avaricious cousin — only to fall for a visiting Indian princess.

WriterSharon Soboil (Netflix)

RomCon

Romantic ComedyDevelopment

After her AI distributes a joke wedding invite to everyone she knows, a quirky workaholic must pull off a last-minute phoney wedding to convince her family that her imaginary relationship is real. The only problem: finding a groom willing to go along with it.

DirectorChris Norton (My Month with Mrs Potter, Secrets)

Bastard

Crime ComedyDevelopment

A loner with a people-watching addiction decides to educate society's bastards, one violent lesson at a time. But killing the wrong bastard lands him deep in London's criminal underworld.

Four Corners: Food Beyond Borders

Documentary SeriesIn Development

A global documentary series that uses food as a compass to remap how we understand the world. Following cuisine into Indigenous communities across the planet's ancestral territories — from mountains and deserts to oceans, forests, and ice — it reveals how history, nature, and tradition shape life, and how, beyond every border, we are connected through the universal language of food.

FormatGlobal documentary series
Season 1 opens inKurdistan — a stateless people, a sacred homeland

Skins

HorrorPre-Production

After a hit-and-run leaves her sister dying, a desperate medical student and her friends kidnap the wealthy classmate they blame and take him to an abandoned asylum to harvest the organ that could save her — only to find the halls crawling with the monstrous survivors of a mad doctor's experiments, and the real driver may be one of their own.

AttachedJim Jefferies (Him, Legit)

Untitled High-IP Series

ScriptedIn Development

Based on true events and characters, this high-IP series brings a female-driven perspective to decades of events involving some of the most famous figures ever to walk the earth — told in the style of The Crown. Original source-material rights acquired and protagonist input secured.

FormatPremium scripted drama

Sorcery

Fantasy · ScriptedIn Development

A high-IP fantasy series based on the best-selling Fighting Fantasy novels of 1980s fame. Having sold over 20 million copies worldwide, the books have never been adapted for screen — and we hold the exclusive rights to do so. Think Game of Thrones blended with Narnia and Harry Potter, with vast franchise and universe potential.

RightsExclusive screen adaptation rights secured
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