What’s extra meta than a film inside a film? How a couple of film inside a film based mostly on a TV present a couple of bunch of fellows making films in Hollywood the place the chief producer is definitely the inspiration for the protagonist?
That’s basically the plot of HBO’s Entourage, the franchise impressed by Mark Wahlberg’s rise to stardom. The HBO sequence, created by Doug Ellin, gained a number of Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe awards and its subsequent movie garnered $49.3 million on the field workplace.
Entourage premiered on HBO in 2004, introducing viewers to film star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) and his essential crew of supportive buddies (Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara and Jeremy Piven). The Satan Wears Prada star performs the principle character who makes an attempt to steadiness friendship and private acquire in Los Angeles alongside the latter 4 stars.
“It was actually a special time,” Grenier recalled his expertise on set throughout a GQ Australia interview in November 2020. “We wouldn’t have been in a position to get away with the identical issues in the present day that we did on the present. I’m glad that we obtained it completed after we did.”
He continued: “I may have used a bit of extra Vince in my life, truly. However I’m comfortable to say that I used to be in a position to play a job after which transition again to myself. … I used to be making documentaries in Mexico after I obtained the position, so it was fairly a change.”
The entourage of Entourage was a lot bigger than simply the 5 essential guys that match on the poster. The solid additionally consisted of different stars — together with Debi Mazar, Constance Zimmer and Emmanuelle Chriqui — who’ve made memorable cameos on the HBO drama.
Almost 4 years after the award-winning sequence wrapped, the Hollywood crew reunited for a cinematic followup — set mere days after the finale’s cliffhanger scenes.
“We shot huge format from the start, prefer it was on an enormous display screen,” Grenier informed The Unbiased in June 2015. “Followers watched 4 or 5 episodes in a row. The one distinction [for the movie] is that we’ve lower out the start and finish credit.”
He added: “One of many issues I like about this [project] is that it’s about the way you carry up your neighbors and your mates and your loved ones, the way you help them. Despite the fact that plainly the theme is about indulgence and materialism, it’s actually not. It’s about supporting your mates.”
Scroll beneath to see what the solid has been as much as for the reason that present — and film — wrapped:
