John Aglialoro is an American businessman and film producer. Aglialoro has been profiled by Forbes and Fortune magazines and was praised in a Forbes blog post. Recently, Aglialoro and his wife were recognized and honored as 2018 Distinguished Citizen Award Recipients by the Freedom Foundation. He has also been recognized as part of the "100 Most Influential Libertarians".
Aglialoro served as CEO of Cybex International, a fitness equipment manufacturer, from 1997 until 2016 when it was sold to Brunswick Corporation. He is also chairman and CEO of UM Holdings Ltd., which he co-founded in 1973. Aglialoro is a borough commissioner for Tavistock, New Jersey, a borough with a population of 5 in 2010. He had previously served as the borough's mayor.
Filmography
After almost two decades after acquiring the movie rights from the Estate of Ayn Rand, and having several notable producers option the rights, Aglialoro took it upon himself to see that Atlas Shrugged would finally go into production and independently financed its production and distribution through Atlas Productions, LLC. Since the novel is more than 1200 pages and separated into 3 parts, Aglialoro determined that filming each part separately would allow him to cinematically deliver more of its powerful message. Aglialoro produced Atlas Shrugged Part 1 with Harmon Kaslow and shared screenplay credit, too. On April 15, 2011, the film version of ', premiered in 299 selected cities throughout the United States and ultimately played on nearly 700 different screens during its USA theatrical run earning nearly $5M in box office receipts. With the participation of additional executive producers, Aglialoro continued the trilogy by producing ' which debuted in October 2012 on nearly 1200 screens. The third and final part of the novel was produced and written by Aglialoro under the title: , which debuted on September 12, 2014, in more than 200 theaters. All three films were critically panned. Nevertheless, Aglialoro received awards for the movies including a Saturn Award, an award from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, Anthem Film Festival and others. Following the theatrical release of the Atlas Shrugged Trilogy, Aglialoro has been approached by a number of producers interested in partnering with him on a remake as a feature or multi-part feature including twice Academy Award Winner, Albert S. Ruddy.
Personal life
Aglialoro is also a poker enthusiast, winning the US Poker Championship in 2004. Aglialoro married Diane Walter and had two children, Justin and Holly. Later, they divorced. John then married Joan Carter. Previously, Joan had two children as well, Mark and Liesl. Now they have eight grandchildren.
