Vinnie Chase: Award Winner? Footage from 'Entourage' Filmed During Golden Globes

Is Vinnie Chase about to win a Golden Globe? Last night the awards show was host to Hollywood's brightest and most glamourous celebrities, but it also saw a visit from Vincent, Turtle, Drama, E, and Ari from the upcoming Entourage movie. While it's not surprising that Jeremy Piven, Adrien Grenier and the rest of the gang were there, they arrived to the red carpet for a special purpose, like shooting a "special ending" to the film.

It was Variety's Cynthia Littleton who caught Piven and Today's Al Roker just as they began chatting about the last-minute footage being shot for the movie's conclusion. It's looking like Vinnie may be about to take home some awards hardware for the first time. Or perhaps not. This is friggin' Entourage; chances are they just needed footage of Vinnie and Co. hanging out with celebs on the red carpet. Was Mark Wahlberg there? If so then they probably shot a scene with him. Maybe Drama is looking to sneak up on stage when some show he used to be on wins an award. Doubtful it will be something as simple as Vinnie winning a Golden Globe.

We'll find out what's going on when Entourage opens on June 5th.

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The Party's back On in First Trailer for the 'Entourage' Movie

"Sadly, all good parties must come to an end." That doesn't apply to HBO's Entourage, apparently. When last we left Vince, Turtle, Drama, E, and Ari they were all leaving the wild life of Hollywood for the next phase of their lives. Vince was flying off to Paris to get married, E was moving to New York to be a father, and Ari was about to take over as head of Warner Bros. How much of that will be picked up on in the new movie? Who knows, but it looks like the party is really just beginning.

The first teaser trailer or the Entourage film is pretty much everything a fan of the show's eight seasons could hope for. You've got angry Ari screaming into his phone, Drama acting like a fool, hot girls, big celebrities, and Vince has completed his directorial debut in some kind of superhero flick.

Of all the HBO shows this is probably the one that needed a movie the least, and it will be interesting to see if its audience turns out. Then again it worked for Veronica Mars, didn't it? Directed by series creator Doug Ellin, Entourage opens June 5th 2015.

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Ready to party? 'Entourage' film gets the greenlight

Even before HBO's long-running Entourage aired its final episode, talk of bringing Vince and the gang back for a feature film had begun. Mark Wahlberg and co-creator Doug Ellin have been talking it up ever since, and now that the script is finally completed, Warner Bros. has given the thumbs up to bring it to the big screen.

The story will pick up about six months from where the finale left off, with Ari the head of his own studio, Vince heading off to get married, and the gang kind of going in their own direction. Here's what Ellin previously said about what his film would entail...

“There are interesting developments about Ari as a studio head, and that’s still the first page for me. But foremost is the friendship between the guys who are still hanging out and going to fun parties, and it continues with the same characters.”

Um, I hope there's more to it than that. We could just pop in a Blu-Ray of Season 1 if that's all we're going to get.  And honestly, that stuff got boring by the end of Season 2. Surely Ellin, who will also be directing, won't just litter the film with more celebrity cameos and call it a day?

Deals are being worked out with the principle cast to return, which shouldn't be that big of a deal. Expect to see the most important supporting players turn up, as well. I'd kill for Sasha Grey to make a comeback as Vince's pornstar girlfriend.[Deadline]

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'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' adds Jeremy Piven, Juno Temple, and Ray Liotta

Robert Rodriguez may have strung us along for years on a sequel to Sin City, but he's more than making it up to his fans with the cast he's putting together. Already filming and slated for release this October, just a month after his Machete Kills opens, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has just added three more big names to the growing A-list roster.

ThePlaylist has learned that Juno Temple, Ray Liotta, and Jeremy Piven have all joined the film in undefined roles. They'll be joining new faces Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dennis Haysbert(replacing Michael Clarke Duncan), Josh Brolin(replacing Clive Owen), and Jamie Chung(replacing Devon Aoki). Mickey Rourke, Rosario Dawson, Jessica Alba, and Jamie King will be back in their familiar roles.


Temple is a star definitely on the rise, having just appeared in The Dark Knight Rises. She has two movies playing at Sundance in Magic
Magic with Michael Cera, and Lovelace starring Amanda Seyfried. Liotta is also on a role, recently appearing in Killing Them Softly opposite Brad Pitt. Piven is the most curious addition of all to me. He's been starring in the U.K. series Mr. Selfridge ever since Entourage concluded.

Expect another big name to be revealed once Rodriguez locks down the sought after Ava Lord role. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For opens on October 4th.



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Review: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Well step right up! Have we got a deal for you! One broke down old clunker of a comedy featuring a set of used parts and constructed out of the finest B-grade materials money can buy! Check out the worn out leather interior covered with the jaggy edges of inattention and denial. We've spared no expense to make sure that all of this vehicles "working parts" have been misplaced and utilized in an inappropriate fashion to ensure maximum dissatisfaction with the end product. This vehicle's real star however, it's driving force is the high end engine shipped straight over from Hollywood, CA. This horse is starting to wear a little thin on the front end, promising you many hours of sitting in your local mechanic's waiting room.

Ok, enough of the bad used car saleman schtick. If The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard was one of it's own vehicles it was trying to peddle, it'd be a raggedy old lemon with one side mirror, a faded pine tree air freshener hanging off the rear view, and tail pipe billowing clouds of murky black smoke. The Goods is a lazy comedy that feels like an excuse for Jeremy Piven to bring his Ari Gold character to the big screen. Piven plays smooth talkin' hot shot car salesman Don "The Goods" Ready, one notch below the greasy haired mustache twirling scheisters that most signify with used cars salesmen. Don and his crew of able bodied mercs have been hired to save a dying family car franchise by amping up sales for their big 4th of July weekend.

Don's crew consists of a wealth of wasted comedic talent: Ving Rhames is the burly but sensitive Jibby; Kathryn Hahn as the vulgar and oversexed Babs; and David Koechner as Brent. Realizing that the situation is bleak, they pull out all the stops, hiring a militant deejay played by Craig Robinson in one of the few bright spots.

Described producer Adam McKay as a "funny Glengarry Glen Ross", The Goods lacks two components necessary to make that allusion:

1. Consistent comedy. I assume by funny he meant that people are supposed to laugh. Not just the occasional chuckle. Hell, I can find a chuckle during Passion of the Christ, making me laugh isn't the issue. Making me laugh constantly is the goal for a comedy or so I thought.

2. Quality acting. Jeremy Piven's acting in this is horrendous. I get it, he's supposed to be cocky and cool, but does he have to try so hard to make that point? You don't have to cock your neck in the middle of every sentence like the Fonz. And don't even get me started on Jordana Spiro who plays the token love interest, Ivy. She's relatively attractive, but I find it hard to be turned on by any chick who's voice is reminiscent of the guy who narrates NFL Films. She portrays all the emotions of an ironing board and is twice as stiff. The film's brightest moments are when Will Ferrell pops in as Don's dead, disgruntled best friend Craig McDermott. Now in Heaven, Craig's holding a grudge over the way he died, a death that evokes memories of old Bugs Bunny cartoons it's so ridiculous and downright hilarious. I'm not Ferrell fan but I found myself sorely missing his presence once he left.

Perhaps my biggest problem with it is that it feels like a rushed, hatchet job of a movie full of random ideas thrown against the wall to see what sticks. Few actually do. I loved Kathryn Hahn's Babs character...when she wasn't hitting on a 10 year old boy. Funny? Not exactly. Creepy. Yes exactly. It seems like they took the idea for Used Cars, slapped together a cast of recognizable faces and said " to hell with it". Ed Helms, fresh from his turn in the far superior The Hangover, shows up as Ivy's douche fiance(aren't they always?) and competition in the used car game. He might as well not have shown up. Everybody's got a mortgage I guess.

The Goods is a prime example of what happens when phenomenal talent meets forgettable writing. Piven can now take his Ari act down a few notches and saunter on back to Entourage, and the rest of the cast can hopefully overcome this momentary blip on their record. With the cast The Goods sports some will find a few things to giggle at, but that's not enough reason for anyone to pay cash for this clunker.

5/10

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