Greenlight is given to ENTOURAGE, starring Jeremy piven, Kevin Connolly, Adrien Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Rex Lee, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Perrey Reeves, and Debi Mazar
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Papa Vinyard here, now here's a little somethin' for ya...
I know we've all been waiting with bated breath for an official announcement regarding the ENTOURAGE movie, especially given those salary disputes with the cast that have been widely reported recently. Well, this tweet from creator Doug Ellin is here to put your mind at ease...
It's a go. love you all. pic.twitter.com/KcIPV5fqR8
— Doug Ellin (@mrdougellin) October 29, 2013
No word as of yet as to what deals had to be struck with the talent to get this project off the ground, but the pic is budgeted at $30 million, so I'd imagine that back-end deals played a large part in inking the four principal actors (who were angling for a deal equatable to what Jeremy Piven was getting to reprise his infamous Ari Gold). The plot, as rumored, involves Gold, now a studio head, trying to lock down Adrien Grenier's Vinnie Chase for a major tentpole; I wouldn't be surprised if the actual logline was tempered a bit to get at least some of the titular entourage in there as more than background figures.
I'm a guy who watched every episode of the show in it's first run (I was 15 when it came out, sue me), and even I'm not sure who the target audience for this is. I mean, hasn't the time for this come and gone? Didn't SEX AND THE CITY 2 prove that sometimes you have to just let the franchise die after a certain point? This tweet from
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