Biography
Aloe Entertainment is one of Los Angeles' most prolific independent production companies. The Los Angeles based feature film/television company was created in 1999 by Mary Aloe. Mary Aloe and Aloe Entertainment produces and finances individual pictures and slates of movies. Aloe Entertainment specializes in developing/producing independent features, television series, and network and cable event movies. Mary Aloe and Aloe Entertainment specialize in obtaining 100% financing for features by raising private equity; working with hedge funds, gap financing, top tier foreign sales companies and securing domestic distribution. Producer Mary Aloe and Aloe Entertainment, along with her development team, have produced a record 18 features in six years. As well, Mary Aloe's vast knowledge of P & A financing was acknowledged, she ran a 50 million dollar P & A for R E backed by Merrill Lynch.
Aloe Entertainment is a full service film and television packaging production house located in Beverly Hills, California. Mary Aloe and staff specialize in bringing Equity and Mezzanine financing to pictures, as well as develop in house projects from the script to screen. Aloe Entertainment and its principal owner Mary Aloe produce and/or finance 4 to 5 movies a year. Aloe's slate of films coming out in 2020 and 2021 has Worth which premiered at Sundance 2020 starring Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci coming out worldwide on Netflix in Q1 of 2021, Breach starring Bruce Willis, Bruised starring Halle Berry premiered Sept 11th 2020 just had the recording breaking sale at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival with a 20 million dollar deal to Netflix. As well, Flag Day directed and starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Miles Teller is in post-production now.
In 2010, Mary Aloe produced the action cop thriller, Killerman, starring Liam Hemsworth, which is coming out in theaters in August 2019. Aloe and her team produced, with Vertical Entertainment, The Brawler, starring Zach McGowan (Black Sails), Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black) and Amy Smart; the boxing movie about Chuck Wepner that inspired "Rocky." Mary Aloe produced and financed Disturbing the Peace, an action thriller starring Guy Pearce, with E One.
In 2017, in competition at TIFF, Aloe Entertainment executive produced, with Sony, 55 Steps; shot in Cologne Germany, Portugal and San Francisco and starring two-time Oscar nominee Helena Bonham Carter (Wings of A Dove, The Kings Speech) two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby, Boys Don't Cry) and Golden Globe winner, Jeffrey Tambor. Mary Aloe produced and financed E One's Beast of Burden starring Daniel Radcliffe; a contained action thriller about a man conflicted as he crosses his own lines working for both the DEA and the Cartel at the same time. Aloe Entertainment Executive Produced Screen Media's US Theatrical Release of Mothers And Daughters, starring Golden Globe Winner Sharon Stone, Oscar Winner Susan Sarandon, Golden Globe Nominee Christina Ricci, Courtney Cox, Oscar Winner Mira Sorvino, and Ashanti. Mary Aloe and team produced a black list script comedy, Dear Dictator, starring Sir Michael Caine, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes, Jason Biggs, and Seth Greene; about a young girl that writes to a ruthless dictator in another country who is overthrown and lands on her doorstep in small town America.
Mary and team produced MARA along with the producer of Paranormal Activity and Insidious, in Savannah, Georgia starring Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, November Man, Water Diviner). MARA is based upon a real medical condition called "Sleep Paralysis." Multiple cultures around the world over many millennia have real life stories about a sleep demon aka demonic attacks also known as "Hag Syndrome."
An American comedy, Wild Oats with Weinstein, starring Shirley Maclaine, Jessica Lange and Demi Moore, came out in theaters with Weinstein in 2016. Ten Thousand Saints at the Sundance Film Festival 2015. The movie is a father son picture for the millenniums, starring Ethan Hawke, Emile Hirsh, Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld.
Aloe Entertainment and Mary Aloe arranged financing, produced and completed five features after running a studio in Vancouver. Many of these critically acclaimed features were selected for some of the world's most prestigious film festivals: When A Man Falls In The Forest, starring Sharon Stone and Timothy Hutton, was selected for main competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and in the main competition for America's South By Southwest Film Festival; Numb, starring Matthew Perry and Mary Steenburgen, was selected to have its world premiere in the Discovery section at the Tribeca Film Festival; and Battle In Seattle, a political action drama written and directed by Stuart Townsend and starring Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, Channing Tatum, Andre Benjamin, Joshua Jackson, Martin Henderson, Connie Nielsen and Michelle Rodriguez. Battle in Seattle had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in main competition and had the biggest sale at the festival and is being multi-platformed theatrically across America this fall 2008. Aloe's other films include While She Was Out, a female action thriller starring Kim Basinger and Lucas Haas; executive produced by Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) and jointly produced by Don Murphy (Transformers); and Tortured, starring Laurence Fishburne and James Cromwell , which was released through Magic Box and Sony Pictures. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, with LGE, had its theatrical release in the spring of 2009. Aloe's first feature film endeavor was in 2004 and entitled Downtown: A Street Tale, starred Genevieve Bujold and Domenica Scorsese and was released with American World Pictures.
Mary Aloe's foray into the business began in television with producing over eight successful national reality and television talks shows. In 2001, Mary Aloe transitioned into long form television with Columbia TriStar and NBC with The Princess and the Marine, a MOW for NBC Television, the project, chronicling the true story of a Middle Eastern Princess who fell in love with an American Marine, generated so much excitement it incited the second biggest bidding war in television history. It then became the highest rated Movie of the Week that year for NBC. Aloe executive produced this made for TV movie with Columbia Tri-Star.
The television division of Aloe Entertainment produced Room 401 jointly with partners Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, premiering on MTV. Mary Aloe is also developing a bevy of reality series The Real Women of Nashville, The Real Life Coming to America with the Prince of Nigeria, and The Nancy Grace Project with America's most famous female prosecutor and CNN talk show host with 20th Century Fox television studios.
Mary Aloe and Aloe Entertainment has also affiliated herself with the top organizations in the entertainment industry. She is a member of the following guilds: WEN (Women's Entertainment Network), American Federation of Women in Television and Radio, CAUCUS, Women in Film, First Weekenders Club, Women Occupy Hollywood and Women in Media.
