"Entourage"
The Release (2006)

Director:

Patty Jenkins

Writers:

Doug Ellin (creator) and
Brian Burns (writer)

TV Series:

"Entourage" (2004)

Original Air Date:

30 July 2006 (Season 3, Episode 8)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Theatrical Agent | Film Industry | Gay Personal Assistant | Los Angeles California

Cast

Kevin Connolly	...	Eric Murphy
Adrian Grenier	...	Vincent Chase
Kevin Dillon	...	Johnny 'Drama' Chase
Jerry Ferrara	...	Turtle
Debi Mazar	...	Shauna
Jeremy Piven	...	Ari Gold
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Edward Burns	...	Himself
Bryan Callen	...	Rob Rubino
Rhys Coiro	...	Billy Walsh
Beverly D'Angelo	...	Barbara Miller
Fumi Desalu	...	Foreign Press Agent
Caroline Farah	...	Customer #1
Ted Fenton	...	Customer #2
Ken Jeong	...	Coffee Shop Manager
Sheree Leana	...	Barbara Miller Assistant
Rex Lee	...	Lloyd
Malcolm McDowell	...	Terence
Ethan Mechare	...	Event Handler
Peter Pasco	...	Coffee Shop Kid
Ryan Preimesberger	...	Bartender
Jean-Michel Richaud	...	Parker
Scott Alan Smith	...	CAA agent
John Viener	...	Agent
Stephanie Vogt	...	Liz

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Quotes:

Lloyd: This lying is making me breakout. God I have a date tonight.
Ari Gold: Well I'm sure your date will pop that with his pecker. Don't worry.

Movie Connections:

References The Godfather (1972)

Soundtrack:

My House

What ELSE the episode teaches...

Your comment on "art" vs. commercial films is idealistic and unrealistic. Who do you think finances this "art" films. If it's not the studio offshoots, Picturehouse, Vantage, Sony Classics, Fox Searchlight, then it's a group of doctors, lawyers, or large Wall Street investors. In other words, rarely if ever, the artist.

Obviously, this leads to a certain responsibility to the investor, if the artist desires to see his film get distribution, and more importantly, the ability to make another one. So Hollywood and the artists it supports have a co-dependent relationship, like it or not.

Of course there are always certain tasteless "suits" who will try to inflict their opinion on a film in order to better its odds of a return to investors, but have the interest of the artists at heart as well, because nobody wants to anger them for fear that they flee to a rival agency/studio. That's pretty well covered in the Entourage series and there are treatises on how FEAR is behind every move "Hollywood" makes.