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New HBO Film From 'Succession' Creator Premieres Next Week Depicting Tech Billionaires During a Financial Crisis

A new, standalone feature film from 'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong, called Mountainhead, depicts four arrogant, fictional tech entrepreneurs cut from the same cloth as Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, et al, having a boys' weekend while the world experiences a financial meltdown.

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'Matrix 4' and All 20 Other Warner Bros. Films in 2021 Will Stream on HBO Max Simultaneous With Theater Releases

In a major announcement and landmark moment in the streaming wars, Warner Bros. Pictures announced Thursday that all of its slate of film releases for 2021 will be released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max.

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HBO's Silicon Valley Reacts To The Most Ridiculous Parts Of The iPhone X Announcement

Funny or Die and Silicon Valley joined forces to stick it to Apple last week with a video poking fun at their surprise announcement of the iPhone X (pronounced "ten" because God help

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Video: Every Tiny Tech-World In-Joke Hidden Within The Title Sequence Of 'Silicon Valley'

Part of the reason that HBO's Silicon Valley — which just had its fourth season finale on Sunday — has such a short, rapid-fire opening title sequence is that creator Mike Judge didn't really want

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No!!! T.J. Miller Announces He's Leaving HBO's 'Silicon Valley'

Truly one of the comic delights of the four seasons of Silicon Valley thus far, T.J. Miller's arrogant stoner character Erlich Bachman will be getting written off the show come Season Five

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'Not Hotdog' App From HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Now Available For Download

Sunday night's episode of Silicon Valley was another winner for the continuously hilarious series, and one that had some of the series' characteristic comic twists involving the sometimes absurd pivots that tech companies

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Nerd Alert: First Trailer For 'Silicon Valley' Season 4

Silicon Valley, the HBO Comedy from Mike Judge that skewers, roasts, and generally devours the world of tech and startups, is back on April 23rd for its 4th Season, which has got me

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The Rock Is In Town Shooting 'Ballers' And Greeting Fans, Should Be Easy To Spot

Some celebrities can hide behind a large pair of sunglasses and pass unbothered through Los Angeles, but it's considerably harder to blend in when your'e Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and San Franciscans are

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'Silicon Valley' Fans Delight Over Hillary's Use Of 'Middle Out'

Chalk it up to coincidence feeding Twitter chatter, but even my ears perked up when Hillary Clinton dropped the phrase "middle out" during Wednesday night's presidential debate. Clinton was referring to her economic

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Sharing Your Netflix Or HBO GO Password May Now Be A Federal Crime

Though there are likely to be future decisions that limit the ramifications of this one, a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled that without specific authorization from

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<em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.10: 'The Elephant In The Room'

Silicon Valley's first season ends with big success: A huge win for Pied Piper at TechCrunch Disrupt. Its second season ends with serious failure: Richard Hendricks is ousted from his position as CEO

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<i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.8: 'Chief Evangelism Officer'

In a New Yorker article about Silicon Valley published last week, readers learned that TJ Miller, who plays incubator owner and eccentric bong collector Erlich Bachmann, once met Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, more)

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<em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.4: 'Box Turtle'

After a secret plan to divert their efforts was discovered at the end of last episode, Dinesh, Gilfoyle, and Richard are being forced to deliver on a decidedly un-thrilling box project. And yet,

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<i>Silicon Valley</i> Star T.J. Miller Calls Out Humorless Silicon Valley Tech A**Holes

HBO's Silicon Valley premiered its third season on Monday, and accompanying it was a long interview with one of the show's stars. T.J. Miller plays the blustery Erlich Bachmann on the show

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<i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.1: 'Decacorn'

Like the startup it follows, Silicon Valley has a high valuation. According to Deadline, the tech-skewering comedy from Office Space and Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge was renewed for a fourth season

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Video: 'Silicon Valley' Cast Guesses At What Actual Startups Do By Their Dumb Names

Watch this on The Scene. Anaplan? Twilio? Klarna? These are all real companies that we will not link to, but feel free to Google them. The hilarious cast of HBO's Silicon Valley, who

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<em>Silicon Valley</em> Season 3 Full-Length Trailer Features Erlich Riding A Unicorn

We got the teaser last month, and now as we approach the April 24 premiere of the third season of HBO's Silicon Valley, and today they give us the full 90-second trailer. We

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Game Of Thrones To Promote Season 5 DVD With SF 'Dragon' Landing And Flight Tomorrow

Stunt moves are what drive Game of Thrones, the popular television show based on the books of George R.R. Martin that relies heavily on scenes of extreme violence, sexual violence, and mostly

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New Posters For HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Blur Line Between Parody, Documentary

To quote from HBO's Silicon Valley, the technology industry has reached "Florence during the Renaissance," levels. "This is Camelot," a Google CEO type bloviated in the beginning of Season 2, "the cradle of

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Video: 'Silicon Valley' Season 3 Trailer Drops

As we have before, SFist will be recapping HBO's absurdist look at our local tech community, Silicon Valley, when its third season begins on April 24th. In the new trailer, we see our

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<i>Looking</i> Movie-Finale To Begin Shooting In SF This Month

Many people were upset about the cancellation of HBO's gay drama Looking after its second season, despite viewership that was not much worse than some of HBO's critical-darling shows. But, as we learned

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Former Twitter CEO (And Theater Nerd) Dick Costolo Consulting On HBO's <i>Silicon Valley</i>

Dick Costolo may be laying low in the real Silicon Valley, but he's just jumping right into the parody version — if there is any perceptible difference. The tech exec is now consulting on

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Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Airing Documentary About The New SF On HBO

On September 28, HBO is airing the new documentary San Francisco 2.0, directed by Alexandra Pelosi, and the film was screened last night here in town (SFist wasn't invited). As the Business

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<em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Coding In A Burning Room

"This guy falling off a cliff is the first piece of good luck we've had," says Dinesh of the booming Pied Piper live-stream that's following a museum employee who was injured while removing

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<em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Kool-Aid

In an adrenaline-fueled episode of Silicon Valley, we open with Nucleus' big debut, which, as we suspected, goes horribly awry. The live-streaming UFC-style fight that was supposed to promote Hooli's technology is buggy,