Loeb returned to Los Angeles and continued writing his script with the help of Little Miss Sunshine producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa.
Things We Lost in the Fire was met with mixed reviews and was a box office failure grossing only around $8 million worldwide.
[6] Additionally Loeb co-wrote, along with Kevin James, the script to the mixed martial arts comedy Here Comes the Boom.
Loeb also rewrote the 2015 earthquake disaster 3D project San Andreas at New Line Cinema, and the action comedy The Machine, with Vin Diesel attached to produce and star at MGM.
[7] In 2015, Allan Loeb's long-developing script Out of This World, a project he had been writing since 2007, finally moved forward.
He sold his spec script, Collateral Beauty (2016), to Palm Star Media, with Will Smith cast in the lead.
[4] Loeb is a keen follower of rock band Grateful Dead, which he compares to the film industry in its fanbase.