Entourage (2015)

“Do you know how hard I have worked to avoid going to Texas?” — Ari Gold

The bros are back in town. Vince, E, Drama, Turtle, and Ari return – boorish and brash as ever – for Entourage, the inevitable big screen follow-up to the popular HBO series about a crew of knuckleheads chasing the Hollywood dream.

Will he or won’t he make the movie? After eight seasons and a four-year hiatus, the frat boy antics of Vince and company cannot help but feel a little tired at this point. Thankfully, the hard-partying, foul-mouthed melodrama and attempted filmmaking take a backseat to the city of Los Angeles in the title sequence. Despite all those names in lights, LA is the real star of the show here.

The sequence, produced by Greenhaus GFX, acts as a supersized version of the original series main titles, expanding the scale and scope of the story, trading the darkened streets and bright lights of Hollywood for a citywide tour of some of LA’s most recognizable landmarks and iconic signage. Ride along with the top down, cruise from Venice to the Hollywood Hills, from the Sunset Strip to LAX and beyond. The lives of Vince and his entourage may not be everyone’s dream but it’s impossible to deny the allure of La-La-Land.

A discussion with Greenhaus GFX Executive Creative Director HELEN GREENE and Creative Director JASON DOHERTY.

Could you give us some background on Greenhaus GFX and yourselves?

Helen: After leaving Create Advertising, I decided to launch my own motion graphics company and make it 100% female-owned. No partners, no investors, just something I endeavored to do on my own – essentially my lifetime dream.

It started out small with a few artists and myself, also designing. As we grew the motion graphics group working on trailer and TV graphics, our creative advertising main title designs were being noticed by filmmakers, and…

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