Peter McAlevey Net Worth is
$14 Million

Mini Biography

Peter McAlevey is really a longtime film professional, producer and internet marketer. Mr. McAlevey’s most recent film, “Get rid of Her, Not really Me,” is really a horror/thriller having a twist. Presently making the film festival rounds ahead of its US theatrical release up coming fall, “Destroy Her” stars thriller legend Tony Todd, international star JoAnna Pacula (“Gorky Park,” “Tombstone”) and third-generation horror ingénue Elizabeth Guest in her film debut. (Guest’s aunt may be the initial “scream queen” Jamie Lee Curtis of “Halloween” whose mom was Janet Leigh of “Psycho”!) Up to now the reaction continues to be mind-boggling, with “Get rid of Her” earning the Audience Honor because the “preferred film” from the first two celebrations it’s entered! McAlevey happens to be in preproduction on another picture, a big-screen remake of Disney’s vintage “The 3 Lives of Thomasina” (right now “Thomasina”) which he’s producing together with Peter Hoffman’s 7 Arts Entertainment. Capturing on “Thomasina” is usually scheduled to begin with in fall 2014 in Louisiana. At exactly the same time, he and partner George Francisco (also the article writer/movie director of “Destroy Her”) and Keri Selig are planning a pilot, “Sideshow,” for Asylum Entertainment and Pet Planet that comes after the lives, enjoys and travails of the touring carnival sideshow. Pursuing his graduation from Columbia University, McAlevey started his job as Newsweek Magazine’s entertainment correspondent, where he was recruited by legendary studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg to become listed on the brand new regime at Disney. Collectively, they continued to carefully turn a faltering studio into a global media behemoth encompassing from cruiselines to theme parks, films to cable systems (like the most lucrative ever sold, ESPN), ABC, Dvd disks and hotels. While at Disney, two-time Academy Award-winner Michael Douglas asked McAlevey to greatly help start his creation organization, Stonebridge, at Columbia Photos. There Mr. McAlevey was billed with obtaining, developing and creating a series of photos including multimillion-dollar strikes like “Flatliners” (starring Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon and Keifer Sutherland) and Jean-Claude Vehicle Damme’s first studio room hit, “Two times Effect.” He also helped shepherd the professions of individuals like previous footballer Brian Bosworth (“Rock Chilly,” “BACK Business”) and long term TV celebrity William Petersen (“CSI”).. With then-girlfriend Cyndy Chvatal, McAlevey created the Toronto Film Festival-winning “Hard Guarantees,” predicated on a tale by Mr. McAlevey and starring Petersen and Academy Award-winner Sissy Spacek. At Stonebridge McAlevey also created such acclaimed photos as “Radio Flyer,” starring Elijah Solid wood (“GOD, THE FATHER of the Bands”), Joseph Mazzelo (“Jurassic Recreation area”) and Lorraine Bracco as well as the children’s traditional “Heidi,” starring Charlie Sheen. Pursuing Stonebridge, McAlevey founded Thunderbird Images, devoted to assisting important, new indie filmmakers, such as for example Jasmine Man and Giancarlo Esposito, who’s film “Klash” debuted in the Sundance Film Festival and famed NY “indie” movie director Sam Kass, who matched up Academy Award-winner Rod Steiger and multi-Emmy winner Michael Chiklis with “Flashdance”‘s Jennifer Beals and former light-weight boxing champ Ray “Increase Increase” Mancini within an award-winning remake from the John Garfield boxing vintage “Body and Spirit.” Later on he produced a fresh American film by Israeli movie director Isaac Eaton, “Darkness Hours” (starring Balthazar Getty, Rebecca Gayheart and Peter Weller) which became the largest-selling Sundance strike of its period. “Darkness Hours” broke fresh ground when you are the very first picture to become “presold” (to get a reported $2 million) to a significant home-video business, Blockbuster Entertainment, ahead of its theatrical launch! (Foreign sales had been managed by 7 Arts basically smashed objectives.) Likewise, in 2008 he took a little, BBC co-production, “Screamers.” created for British television and raised it for an American Film Festival-award champion, a U.S. theatrical strike (#1 per-screen typical its 1st weekend!) and Cannes Film Event debut. Sir Elton John hosted the U.K. premiere of the under-$1 million creation. In a nutshell, Mr. McAlevey is probably the handful of best independent film-and-television makers and distributors employed in the U.S, today. He welcomes the chance to help fresh filmmakers discover an outlet for his or her creative attempts and achieve the perfect reward for his or her investment that the existing economic climate can offer.

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