Monday, January 28, 2008

Entourage Season 3 Episode 2


Originally aired: Sunday June 18, 2006 on HBO

Aquaman has it's opening day and everyone's awaiting the numbers to begin rolling in. Ari has an ear to the East coast's first-reports and things are looking good. Aquaman begins the day looking like a $95 million dollar grosser, perhaps even cross $100 mil. But the boys start to hope for bigger dreams, taking Spiderman off it's $114 million record breaking weekend.
Vinny wants to go out to the Valley to catch the movie, but Drama complains about the heat. The west coast is roasting at 105 degrees, but people are still turning out for Aquaman and the guys show up to a packed house. During the showing, the big climax begins to build. On screen, Aquaman is racing down the pier to take on the grand, evil.. cut to black.... the theater's power goes out. The heat is causing rolling black-outs up and down the coast. How will this hurt the movie's opening weekend?
Stuck in traffic after the movie, Eric hears that Spiderman is in they're sights. Vinny decides to celebrate by treating his boys to a set of Ducati motorcycles. Waiting outside for the blackouts to pass, some high school kids followed Vinny over from the theater and ask him to they're party. The guys decide to check it out, figuring they'll be waiting hours to get home anyway.
Meanwhile, Ari and his wife continue their dysfunction marriage, this time stressing over the amount of sex they are having. Ari is all business and during this movie release, apparently he's not getting the task done between the sheets.
The high school party is everything to be expected. Vince and E remember back to the days when the numbers didn't matter and it was all about having fun. They decide to get hammered and make the kids' night. Despite the threat the black outs on Aquaman's success, in the end, the black outs hurt the computers that calculate ticket sales more than the sales themselves. Aquamans looks to gross $116 million. Now that's something to party about.
Riding the high from the news, Vince makes the two high schoolers' day by giving them his Maserati to help them impress the girls.