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.
