Allan Loeb

Allan Loeb is an American screenwriter and film and television producer. He wrote the 2007 film Things We Lost in the Fire and created the 2008 television series New Amsterdam. He wrote the film drama 21, which also was released in 2008. He wrote and produced The Switch which came out in August 2010. He wrote Wall Street Money Never Sleeps, released in September 2010, The Dilemma , and Just Go with It . He performed a rewrite for the musical Rock of Ages, starring Tom Cruise, released June 2012, and then the mixed martial arts comedy Here Comes the Boom, starring Kevin James Loeb cowrote the script for with James, and the film which hit theaters in October 2012. Loeb cowrote and produced with Steven Pearl the action comedy So Undercover starring Miley Cyrus, which came out direct to DVD in February 2013.

Loeb was born in Highland Park, Illinois, to Elsie and Henry Loeb. He attended Ithaca College in New York from 1988 to 1992, dropping out to work at the Chicago Board of Trade. He relocated to Los Angeles, California in 1993 to pursue a career in screenwriting. Loeb was only marginally successful, with only the occasional deal. He made his first deal in 1997 when he sold a pitch to DreamWorks. It was a romantic comedy titled The Second Time Around and he was paid a lowsix figures against midsix figures. With his foot in the door, the following year he and Steven Pearl sold a pitch to United Artists, in 1998. It was a baseball dramedy titled The 7th Game that they shared a lowsix figures against midsix figures. However, Loebs success was short lived. Neither scripts got the movies made. His gambling habit began to overtake his writing and eventually drained him of the little money he did make with the two sales. He didnt make another deal foryears, until May 2001, when he sold his sp

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