How To Make It In America Get the inside track on HBO's latest series from the producers of Entourage

Video: The Making Of “How To Make It In America”

Bryan Greenberg, Victor Rasuk, and executive producers Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg talk about the making of "How to Make It in America."

Watch Episode 1 Right Now

For those that just can't wait for the February 14 premiere date, HBO has leaked the pilot for "How to Make It in America" onto youtube. You can catch the pilot in its entirety  above by clicking play.

Note that the free stream is for U.S. residents only.

The “How To Make It” Mixtape

Kid Cudi, DJ Green Lantern & Broke Mogul present How to Make it in America The Mixtape!

Download the entire Mixtape here

Bryan Greenberg and Lake Bell Open NYSE

The cast of "How to Make It" is in New York this week to promote the February 14th premiere of their new HBO show. They kicked off the promotional tour by ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Video: HBO First Look At HTMIA

Japanther Joins HTMIA Soundtrack

By now everyone has seen the "How to Make It in America" teaser trailer. The band credited with the soundtrack is Japanther. Japanther is a punk rock band from New York City that was formed in Brooklyn in 2001. The band consist of Ian Vanek (drums, cassettes, vocals) and Matt Reilly (bass, Casio SK-1). The name of the song is "Challenge," off the 2007 album Skuffed Up My Huffy. Here is the video in its entirety.

Japanther Press:

• “Japanther remains one the NYC’s most under rated acts…” – Pitchfork Media
• “Performance Galaxy” – Vanity Fair
• “The Perfect Act” – PLAYGIRL
• “They are untouchable. Highly, highly recommended.” – Razor Cake
• “The ever-divisive” – The Fader
• “Super hard, incredibly fast, and overall inspiring” – Thrasher
• “A NYC based band whose music conveys what I would call springing life.”- Art Forum

From Twitter With Love

Anticipation for How to Make It in America continues to build and the airwaves on Twitter are starting to heat up. Attention Tweeters... don't forget to use the hashtag #howtomakeit to see what the word on the street is for the new series.

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First Reviews Are In For “How To Make It”

The premiere date for "How to Make it" is just a few weeks away. In addition to the premiere  parties that HBO is hosting across America, several lucky individuals have been allowed to see the first few episodes of the show. One luck journalist/blogger is Denis McGrath from deadthingsonsticks.com.  Mcgrath is a former television producer and journalist that represents the Central Region on the Council Writers Guild of Canada. Credentials that should give  McGrath a legit opinion on the overall production of the HBO series. He had several great things to say about the show. Story after the break...

The show stars Bryan Greenberg and Victor Rasuk, was created by Ian Edelman and was Directed by Julian Farino. It comes to HBO from Mark Wahlberg's production company, and there are moments where it seems like they're going to try to promote it as a kind of east coast Entourage.

But it's not. It's not even particularly a comedy, though it's pretty funny.  From the opening titles, with its bold sans serif type & chunky early 70's soul theme song, How to Make it in America is HBO's announcement that it's right back at the center of the zeitgeist as tastemaker.

Everything about this show is tremendously appealing. It's about two guys in their twenties trying to make it as entrepeneurs in the fashion world in New York. But what gets me about it is that there isn't a false note anywhere in the show.  It cooks along as the perfect of the moment show about the difficulties and disappointments of the American dream -- even hinting at the darkness underneath, that behind that facade of you can make it with hard work and grit lies worlds and clubs and secret handshakes that stack the deck against you.  It's sincere but not naive, unsentimental but not cynical.

You can read the rest of the article here. HBO has to be happy with the first wave or reviews and hype surrounding its show. Looks like its going to be a good one.

The “How To Make It” Crew Hits Times Square

HBO continues its all out promotional assault for "How to Make It in America." Today, the crew was spotted on a billboard in Times Square. Its pretty safe to say you've Made It, when there are giant billboards of you floating around New York City. Here is the good news though, if you spot one of these promotional signs, take a picture of it, and post it on the HTMIA facebook page and HBO will send you a surprise gift, at least according to the FB page admin.

“Cudderisback” A Kid Cudi Mini Documentary

While on tour in Boston, Kid Cuti and his boys put together this little mini documentary. The footage is directed by Jason Goldwatch of Decon Records,  and is set to Cudi's latest song "Cudderisback." I guess this gives you a glimpse of a day in the life of the Kid... I got to hang out with this guy.

As always, Datnewcuti.com was first on the scene, and remains your source for all things Kid Cudi