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Between 2004 and 2011, HBO’s Entourage earned big ratings and numerous awards, including six Emmys and a Golden Globe. But in the wake of #MeToo, the comedy about the Hollywood boys club is being viewed in a different light. On Tuesday, the show’s creator, Doug Ellin, spoke with Yahoo Entertainment and bemoaned the…

Anastasia Taneie, a woman who worked as an extra on Entourage, has made fresh allegations of unwanted sexual advances by Emmy winner Jeremy Piven. Taneie told BuzzFeed News that in 2009, Piven forcibly pushed her up against a wall in a dark hallway, grabbing her breasts and genitals, during a break from filming on the…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED: As claims against Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey remain fresh, Jeremy Piven, star of the new CBS drama series Wisdom of the Crowd, today found himself in the spotlight of sexual harassment allegations. On Monday, reality TV personality/actress Ariane Bellamar made specific accusations on social…

11th UPDATE, Monday, 3:36 PM: Jurassic World took the world’s stage for a global bow of $524.4M and 40% of that came from North American audiences. The Colin Treverrow-helmed family film accounted for 70% of the weekend’s gross among titles from the majors and lifted the box office up overall year-to-date from where…

Monday, FINAL UPDATE, 2:38 PM: All pictures (but Disney’s) were down from their Sunday studio estimates this weekend but the real news is this is the third soft box office weekend in a row. The box office is off 18.9% from 2014 when The Fault in Our Stars opened to $48M and Maleficent had $34.2M in its coffers. The…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. BART: One of the first things I learned when I started working for film studios was that every executive thinks he knows what makes…

The well-reviewed Melissa McCarthy comedy Spy is playing well in matinees for Fox after a half-day of previews yesterday and looks to trump the second weekend of the disaster pic San Andreas. Spy could take in around $11.8M to $13M+ today for a possible $33M to $35.5M weekend, compared to maybe $10M to $12M for Warner…

Focus Features/Gramercy’s Insidious: Chapter 3 frightened $1.55M out of moviegoers’ wallets into theaters’ cash drawers last night while 20th Century Fox’s Spy rang up $1.5M in Thursday night previews. Previews began at 7 PM for Insidious: Chapter 3 in 2,150 theaters, while Spy kicked off at 5 PM. While the horror…

Entourage fans have reason to rejoice, simply because a full-length feature film version of the series exists and can fill the void they’ve felt since the series went off HBO in 2011 after eight seasons. But as I say in my video review above, the downside is that because the series worked so well in half-hour…

UPDATE, Thursday 7:40 AM: Warner Bros.’ Entourage is reporting a $5.36M Wednesday at 3,058 venues, thus leading all pics yesterday. That figure is less than the rosy results that many were projecting from matinees and we hear that evening ticket sales tapered off. Industry estimates now see Entourage in the high teens…

Good news for Johnny Drama. Fandango reports that 50% of its ticket sales today were for Warner Bros.’ Entourage. The feature adaptation of the Emmy-winning HBO series outsold such upcoming big pics like Jurassic World and Inside Out in the most recent 24-hour cycle as well as pics currently in release such as San Andr…

This coming weekend is so busy at the box office that it’s literally starting tonight. Warner Bros’ Entourage, the big-screen version of the glitzy Hollywood HBO series, will be the first of three wide releases to open with 7 PM previews. Friday brings 20th Century Fox/The Chernin Group’s R-rated Melissa McCarthy…