191. Doug Ellin: 20th anniversary of Entourage, breaking into the TV & movie industry, the collaboration process, and all the $$$ behind it!
Trading Secrets
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5 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Doug is most well known for creating the hit HBO series Entourage in which he held roles as executive producer and director. Between 2004 and 2011, the show amassed 96 episodes while collecting 26 Emmy nominations and six Emmy winners, and eventually adapting his own movie screenplay based around the characters and plot of the show. Since the show’s end in 2011, Doug has continued to feed off the high level of interest and success of the show by creating a podcast called “Victory the Podcast” and his new TV show “Ramble On.”
Doug gives insight to how he went to school law before switching gears to do standup comedy, impact of his parents support, how making one short film launched his career, the shocking amount of projects that lose money, how the short film lead to his first rewriting and directing job with Phat Beach, how Entourage revived his career after a major film flop, and how the money breaks down after landing the show. Doug also reveals how he almost went back to become a lawyer, the stresses of landing a show at Max and hoping it sticks, the money behind the show, why he didn’t want to do the Entourage movie, and how his new show “Ramble On” is different from Entourage. Who funded his first short film? When was the first time he felt like Entourage was a success?
Doug reveals all that and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
Host: Jason Tartick
Co-Host: David Arduin
Audio: John Gurney
Guest: Doug Ellin
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm your host Jason Tarduk and welcome to the pre-market trading segment where I'm |
| 0:19.1 | going to tell you a little bit about our guest and update from the market and something for my personal life before we ring in the |
| 0:25.1 | bell. Now this episode, do you guys remember Entourage, one of the best TV shows in the history of |
| 0:32.0 | TV shows from a performance perspective, nationally, internationally, and of course on HBO. |
| 0:39.0 | If you've never seen the show, no worries. |
| 0:41.3 | You're going to hear from someone that was in law school. |
| 0:44.0 | Mom and dad said you got to go. |
| 0:46.0 | Ended up dropping out, practicing and then pursuing stand-up comedy, |
| 0:52.0 | and then goes on to write one of the best TV shows in the entire history of TV shows. |
| 0:59.3 | You're going to hear about what it was like for him to pitch to HBO executives. |
| 1:02.8 | How many times they told him to go back to the chalkboard? |
| 1:06.7 | I gotta warn you, there's a story in here that's definitely R-rated |
| 1:12.2 | of what Doug Allen, the writer and creator of |
| 1:15.6 | Arash had to do to get his mind right. He is funny. He has got an unbelievable, |
| 1:22.1 | imaginative, creative type of brain, |
| 1:25.0 | and you're going to learn so much about pursuing your passions |
| 1:28.0 | and just the behind the scenes of TV. |
| 1:31.0 | And you'll hear about some stories of his good friend David Swimmer. |
| 1:35.4 | We all know Ross from friends. |
| 1:37.3 | So just a lot of action here. |
| 1:39.0 | Some of the numbers we're going to get into regarding the show, but we do talk about Onterage the movie, and I have these |
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