The Boys Are Back E Steven Fierberg, ASC helps Entourage creator-director Doug Ellin bring Vincent Chase and his buddies to the big screen. By Debra Kaufman *|* 54 July 2015 ntourage, the Queens-meets-Hollywood TV series about a newly minted movie star tearing up Tinseltown with his hometown posse, debuted July 18, 2004 on HBO. With only a handful of small projects under his belt, Brooklyn-born series creator and writer Doug Ellin hit paydirt with the series, which ran for eight seasons. When Entourage rolled its last end credits in 2011, the show's fans were left pining for the series' indelible characters: screen idol Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier); his best friend and manager, Eric Murphy (Kevin Connolly); his brother, Johnny "Drama" Chase (Kevin Dillon); helpful hanger-on Turtle American Cinematographer