Wednesday, August 25, 2010

HOLLYWOOD AND WINE pouring in this fall from Mary Aloe Producer


Mary Aloe Entertainment, producer of HOLLYWOOD AND WINE - starring Chris Kattan, Nicky Whelan, Chazz Palminteri, David Spade, Viveca A. Fox, Kevin P. Farley, and Norm MacDonald - announces this great comedy coming out Fall 2010.
                                                   Trailer to Hollywood and Wine

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Present, Past, and Future

Mary Aloe, producer and film finance expert, is considered one of Los Angeles' most prolific female producers. Mary Aloe formed Aloe Entertainment, an L.A. based Feature Film/Television Production and Talent Management Company, in 1999. Aloe Entertainment, the umbrella company for PME's main two divisions, is producing and financing slates of movies (ten movies in the last 4 years), two series, and has run a 50 million dollar P & A Fund for backed by Merrill Lynch for "Regent Releasing". The company specializes in developing and producing independent and studio features, television series, and network and cable event movies. Mary Aloe, Aloe Entertainment and PME specialize in obtaining 100% financing for features by raising private equity, working with hedge funds, gap financing, top tier of foreign sales companies and securing domestic distribution.

2010/2011 are going to be more banner years for Mary Aloe and her staff at ALOE ENTERTAINMENT with five films set on that slate. The partner's first major studio film, with MGM Studios, is MARY MOTHER OF CHRIST, the prequel to "The Passion of the Christ", will be starring Al Pacino, Camilla Belle, Julia Ormond and Peter O'Toole. Aloe own's the project and will produce the script written by Benedict Fitzgerald and Barbara Nicolosi the writer of "The Passion of Christ" and they are hiring many of the original crew from the movie. The film will be shot in Morocco in January 2011 for a Good Friday, April 2012 release. Aloe is also the Executive Producer of KEEPER OF THE PINSTRIPES, a baseball family film with the branding of the Yankees. Director Daniel Zirilli and Aloe have now teamed starting out with a three to four picture slate, on BOOK OF LIFE (Grindstone/Lions Gate), an action drama to shoot in New Orleans in October, PISTOLEROS, a Mexican American action family drama potentially to shoot in Puerto Rico in the first quarter of 2011, as well as a potential mob lawyer film and a female action thriller.

Aloe is in post-production now on HOLLYWOOD AND WINE starring David Spade, Chris Kattan, Vivica Fox and Chaz Palaminteri. Aloe is also in post on the film THE ASCENT starring Josie Davis, is a mountain climbing thriller, which was shot in Austin, TX. The company is also moving into prestigious documentaries, starting out with famed director Charles Burnett, with HER NAME WAS STANLEY, a documentary feature about President Obama's mother who started "micro financing" and was an outspoken leader in her own right and the foremost important catalyst into who would become our current President.

The company has been enjoying a run with a record slate of ten features producer in four years, including BATTLE IN SEATTLE starring Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Channing Tatem, Michelle Rodriguez and Andre Benjamin, WHILE SHE WAS OUT starring Kim Basinger and Lucas Haas, NUMB starring Matthew Perry, Lynn Collins and Mary Steenburgen, TORTURED with Sony Pictures starring Laurence Fishburne and James Cromwell, WHEN A MAN FALLS IN THE FOREST starring Sharon Stone and Timothy Hutton, the mega successful sequel to CABIN FEVER, CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER with LionsGate Studios. Her successful television division has produced over ten series, including the news magazine 20/20, Paramount's HARD COPY, CAUGHT IN THE ACT for NBC, CASE CLOSED for USA Network, as well as ROOM 401, with partner Ashton Kutcher, for MTV, and syndicated talk shows like the SUSAN POWTER SHOW, GERALDO, and television movies like THE PRINCESS AND THE MARINE with NBC/Columbia Tri Star. Given this ambitious pace of production, the company is garnering a reputation as a mini-studio.


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