Hey HBO! If we all see this movie, can we then get a Game of Thrones movie?
You're watching Beyond The Trailer’s review of Entourage, the movie!
Look, I’m just trying to cut a deal here - Ari Gold-style. And chances are even if
you’ve never seen a single episode of Entourage, you’ve heard the name Ari Gold. The most
famous fictional agent since Jerry Maguire. Which is why, when HBO wanted to move forward
with an Entourage movie way back in 2013 - officially greenlighting the film - they offered Jeremy
Piven a little more green. But the rest of the cast had apparently been paying attention
while making a TV show about how to survive in a cut-throat place like Hollywood, and
told HBO they’d be negotiating as a group for the movie as their TV contracts had run
out. Now, negotiating as a group has become quite popular these days ever since the cast
of Friends famously did it in the 1990s - or infamously from the point of view of the studios.
So for a few months, the cast - sans Piven - held the Entourage movie hostage, which
led producer Mark Wahlberg to publically call them “greedy” on TMZ. Eventually, negotiating
as a group once again paid off - literally - as while Piven still got more, five million,
all of the other main cast members got two million apiece plus backend. And before you
call them greedy too, just realize that many of them might never work again - since, y’know,
they haven’t really worked since Entourage ended in 2011. Only Piven has continued to
work, recently finding success with another TV series, this time ITV’s Mr Selfridge
which also airs on PBS. But back up, didn’t I say Entourage ended in 2011? That’s four
years ago! Will people still be interested in an Entourage movie? Well, the Sex and the
City movie came out four years after that show ended, and it did so well at the box
office HBO made a sequel! And while yes, Entourage was never quite as popular as Sex and the
City, this movie cost half as much to make - just thirty million. See? Writer, producer,
director Doug Ellin ALSO paid attention while making Entourage. So, will the show loosely
based on Mark Wahlberg’s life continue follow in his footsteps and forge a successful movie
career? The show clearly has a lot of friends in Hollywood as this movie has a ridiculous
number
of cameos! But
now it’s time to
find out if Entourage
has some friends
in the audience as well...