Posted: Tue., Jun. 3, 2008, 7:08pm PT Smithfield, Proud Mary in six-film deal‘Wine’ stars David Spade, Pamela Anderson By DAVE MCNARY Spade Anderson Indie shingles Smithfield Street Prods. and Proud Mary Entertainment are launching a six-picture alliance with the ensemble comedy “Hollywood and Wine,” starring David Spade, Chazz Palmenteri, Vivica Fox and Pamela Anderson. The comedy begins shooting today at Smithfield Studios in Pittsburgh. Free Fall Films and Trivision Pictures are co-production partners on the pic.Chris Farley’s brother Kevin Farley and Matt Berman will co-direct the film. Mary Aloe, Brian Hartman, Henry Boger and Alexander Tabrizi are producing; Mike Dolan, Ben Barton and Eric Brown exec produce.Story centers on the trials and tribulations of a Hollywood chef and an aspiring actress who embark on a get-rich-quick scheme, setting off a comedy of errors. Kevin Farley, John Farley, Jennifer Farley and Matt Berman penned the script.Cast also includes Chris Kattan, Norm McDonald, Horatio Sanz, Chris Parnell, Jeremy London, Nicky Whelan, and Kevin and John Farley.Dolan and Aloe have set up a line of credit to co-finance the slate of independent films to be shot predominately in Pittsburgh. Aloe, who heads Proud Mary, has a slate of seven features, including “Battle in Seattle,” “Tortured,” “While She Was Out,” “When a Man Falls in the Forest,” “Numb” and “Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever.” The last pic will be distributed by Lionsgate.http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986845.html

Farley family preps film comedy David Spade, Chris Kattan among ‘SNL’ stars on board By Leslie Simmons and Borys Kit June 3, 2008, 07:57 PM David Spade (left), Chris Kattan and Kevin Farley (Getty Images photos) The siblings of the late comedian Chris Farley are heading to Pittsburgh for ” Hollywood and Wine,” a satire that will feature many of Farley’s friends and colleagues from “Saturday Night Live.” The project is the first of a six-picture deal between indie outfits Smithfield Street Prods. & Studios and Proud Mary Entertainment, which hope to shoot movies predominantly in what they call “Hollywood North East.” The slate will take advantage of Pennsylvania’s 25% film tax incentive. Kevin Farley, younger brother John Farley and his wife, Jennifer Farley, collaborated with scribe Matt Berman on “Wine,” which the older Farley is co-directing with Berman. Several former “SNL” cast members will appear in the comedy, including Chris Kattan, David Spade, Norm MacDonald, Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell, according to producers. Also joining the cast are Chazz Palminteri, Vivica Fox, Pamela Anderson, Jeremy London, Nicky Whelan and the two Farley brothers. “Wine” is about a Hollywood chef and an aspiring actress who embark on a get-rich quick scheme that results in mistaken identify and a run-in with the mob. Producing the film are Mary Aloe, Brian Hartman, Henry Boger and Alexander Tabrizi. Mike Dolan, Ben Barton and Eric Brown are executive producing. Free Fall Films and Trivision Pictures are co-producing. Filming is to begin soon. Aloe, founder of Proud Mary, said she and her counterparts at Smithfield already have started lining up projects for their slate. Along with Smithfield’s Dolan, Aloe set up a line of credit to co-finance the slate of films, with Arclight selling foreign rights. Kevin Farley has appeared a variety of TV and film projects, including the upcoming indie comedy “The Gold and the Beautiful,” with brother John. He also appeared in “Artie,” a comedy written and produced by Berman. Kevin Farley is repped by AKA Talent Agency and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. John Farley is repped by Ellis Talent Group and Precision Entertainment. Beverly Hills-based Proud Mary’s productions include “Battle in Seattle” with Charlize Theron and Woody Harrelson and “Tortured,” starring Laurence Fishburne and James Cromwell. The company also is developing “Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever.” Smithfield is based in Pittsburgh and runs the region’s only full-service production studio.http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/ news/e3i51cfa2a984208f30d07bd8c087cb3de2

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Producer Mary Aloe considered one of Hollywood’s most prolific up-and-coming female producers, Mary Aloe formed Proud Mary Entertainment, Inc., a

Beverly Hills based Feature Film/Television Production and Talent Management Company, in 1999.  The five-person company specializes in developing and producing independent and studio features, television series, network and cable event movies. Mary Aloe and Proud Mary Entertainment specialize in obtaining 100% financing for features by raising private equity, working with hedge funds, gap financing, the top tier of foreign sales companies and securing domestic distribution. 2007 into 2008 is going to be another banner year for Mary Aloe and her staff at Proud Mary Entertainment, the company has been enjoying a run with a record  slate of six completed features in just last the two years which are will all be released in 2008. 

 Given this ambitious pace of production, the company is garnering a reputation as a mini-studio. One of Proud Mary Entertainment production partners is with Insight Film Studios in

Vancouver,

Canada, with whom Aloe recently produced five feature films. Mary Aloe and her partner Mike Dolan owner of Smithfield Street Productions & Studios are currently lining up their first slate of recently announced 6 picture alliance in

Pittsburgh. 

 The partners are in production now on “

Hollywood and Wine” starring David Spade, Chris Kattan, Vivica Fox and Chaz Palaminteri. Proud Mary Entertainment have raised the financing, produced and has completed production on the following films, including: “When A Man Falls In The Forest” starring Sharon Stone and Timothy Hutton — which was selected for main competition at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival in February and main competition for America’s South By Southwest Film Festival — and “Numb”, starring Matthew Perry and Mary Steenburgen, which has been selected to have its world premiere in the Discovery section at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.Proud Mary Entertainment is in post-production with “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 (Outkast), Joshua Jackson, Martin Henderson, Connie Nielsen and Michelle Rodriguez.  “

Battle in

Seattle” will have its world premiere at this years Toronto International Film Festival in main competition. It had the biggest sale at the festival and will be released through Think Films in April 2008.Principal Photography also wrapped March 23rd on “While She Was Out”, a female action thriller starring Kim Basinger and Lukas Haas. Proud Mary Entertainment and Insight Film Studios are now in post-production on a psychological thriller, “Tortured”, starring Laurence Fishburne and Cole Hauser.  With a host of other high-profile projects currently in development, 2007 promises to be an equally productive year for Proud Mary Entertainment.

At present, “Cabin Fever 2” with Lions Gate has now completed its filming in

North Carolina This resounding success paved the way for Aloe’s first feature film endeavor in 2004 entitled “Downtown: A Street Tale” starring Genevieve Bujold and Domenica Scorsese with American World Pictures which had a six week run in theaters this summer.In the television division of Proud Mary Entertainment, Room “401” was produced jointly with partners Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg premiered on MTV July 17^th, 2007 to smash ratings and continued to air every Tuesday night at 10:00 PM on its first season. 

 Mary Aloe is also developing a bevy of reality series The Real Women of Nashville and The Real Life Coming to America with the Prince of Nigeria, “The Nancy Grace Project” with

America’s most famous female prosecutor and CNN talk show host with 20th Century Fox television studios. Aloe marked her transition to television movies in 2001 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 ’see Mary Aloe’. 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. Aloe marked her transition to television movies in 2001 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 ’see Mary Aloe’. 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.Proud Mary Entertainment is also co-owner of the Pritcher Management Company, a management firm located

in

Beverly Hills, CA. The final division that makes up the five person team is the P.R. division in which their clients include corporate companies currently sponsored by Staples, Mattel and Xerox.Aloe 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, The Producers Guild of America, Power UP! and the First Weekenders Club.