A new entertainment production company is about to change the movie production landscape! Investment banker and real estate veteran Marie Adler is launching Adler Productions, an entertainment company stationed in Burbank, CA set to focus on the production and financing of up to four feature films per year in $5-25 million budget ranges.
“The discipline I exercised in running American Financial Lending, Inc. and the conservative approach I used when underwriting is what kept my secondary market investors confidence in me.” Adler said. “These are same principles I’m applying in picking our films, their budgets, the logistics of production and the scheduling. Always keeping in mind the investors ROI and minimizing their risk while maintaining the integrity of the film.”
The first film she and her company are set to finance and produce is “Joe Dogs”, a film based on Simon & Schuster’s best-selling novel “Joe Dogs: The Life and Crimes of a Mobster” by Joseph “Joe Dogs” Iannuzzi.
Adler is currently in the process of finding a director and acting talent for the film, and has projected for filming to start late fall.
Here’s the official synopsis of “Joe Dogs”:
JOE DOGS is a thrilling true story of vice, crime and betrayal set along the Gold Coast of Florida in the 1970?s. This is the tale of Joseph Iannuzzi, an ex-mobster who ran “business” operations for the Gambino crime family in the state before an act of betrayal led him to join forces with the FBI in a risky undercover operation.
Adler founded American Financial Lending, Inc., in 1999. In its first year, the company generated a loan volume of $272 million, and after three years, the company went on to achieve a total volume of $56 billion and provide jobs to over five hundred people in 42 states. Adler’s clients have included Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Chase Bank, Wachovia (previously World Savings), Interfirst Wholesale (a division of) ABN AMRO, GMAC, National City, Suntrust, Flag Star, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, HSBC, Indy Mac, and First Interstate Financial.