UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.,
May 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Universal Pictures and CrowdRise today announced the
launch of the upcoming "The Trainwreck Comedy Tour,"
presented by Live Nation, a tour of some of the greatest comics of
this generation, which kicks off at Boston's The Wilbur on June 14, and concludes in Los Angeles at The Wiltern on June 21.
All proceeds will benefit various nonprofits and charities across
the United States and Canada that have been brought together by
CrowdRise, the largest and fastest-growing online platform for
charitable fundraising. Tickets for the tour are on sale
now. Trainwreck will arrive in theaters on July
17.
Comprised of the phenomenal talent from Trainwreck, the
new comedy starring and written by Amy
Schumer (TV's Inside Amy
Schumer) and directed by Judd
Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin),
Schumer, Colin Quinn (HBO's
Girls, TV's Saturday Night Live), Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk with Me, The
Fault in Our Stars), Vanessa
Bayer (Saturday Night Live, TV's Portlandia)
and Dave Attell (TV's Insomniac
with Dave Attell, Arrested
Development)—and Apatow, "The Trainwreck Comedy Tour" will
crisscross the U.S. and Toronto on
a fast seven-cities-in-eight-nights sprint from June 14 - 21.
Schumer has turned Inside Amy
Schumer into a legitimate cultural phenomenon. The
Emmy-nominated and 2015 Peabody Award-winning program was lauded by
the body's jurors with praise including "Schumer's wholesome,
disarming Brady Bunch looks
belie and enhance a comic intelligence that's smart, distinctively
female and amiably profane, whether she's applying it to sketch
comedy, stand-up, or person-on-the-street interviews."
Schumer will be joined on the tour by legendary comic Quinn, who
redefined SNL's "Weekend Update," has performed his one-man
shows on Broadway and around the country, and whose book "The
Coloring Book" is being released on June
9; as well as writer/director/comic—and beloved This
American Life contributor—Birbiglia; Bayer, whom HitFix praises
is part of SNL's current "unstoppable trio" alongside
Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant; and Attell, a no-holds-barred
mainstay of the stand-up circuit and host of Comedy Central's
Comedy Underground with Dave
Attell. They are joined by the Emmy, BAFTA and AFI
award-winner Apatow, one of the most sought-after minds in the
comedy business and the director whom The Washington Post
has crowned "the godfather of blockbuster comedies."
Tour dates include: June 14 at
Boston's The Wilbur, benefitting
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program; June 15 at New York
City's Beacon Theatre, benefitting the National MS Society;
June 17 at Toronto's Massey
Hall, benefitting the David Lynch Foundation; June 18 at Chicago's Harris Theater, benefitting Youth
Guidance and YCMA Chicago's Urban Warriors; June 19 at San
Francisco's The Nourse, benefitting 826 National and 826
Valencia; June 20 at Seattle's Moore Theatre, supporting Hilarity
for Charity benefiting the Alzheimer's Association; and
June 21 at Los Angeles' The Wiltern, benefitting the Rape
Treatment Center's Stuart House
serving child victims. For additional information, tickets
and links to the nonprofit organizations, visit
www.crowdrise.com/Trainwreck and www.trainwreckmovie.com/tour.
"I am so excited about 'The Trainwreck Comedy Tour,' said
Apatow. "I only made this film as an excuse to do the tour
one day. And now that day has come!"
Said Schumer: "I am so grateful that Judd made this movie as a
way to trick us into doing this tour! The shows will be great
fun. Can't wait!"
About CrowdRise
CrowdRise is the world's largest and fastest growing online
platform dedicated exclusively to charitable fundraising.
CrowdRise is used by millions of individuals, tens of
thousands of charities, hundreds of companies and many of the most
famous artists and athletes in the world to creatively leverage
their resources and networks to unlock the power of crowds and
raise hundreds of millions of dollars to support positive social
missions. CrowdRise's unique functionalities as a platform
for individual activists engaging in peer-to-peer fundraising and
its strategic innovations as a high level partner for companies,
foundations and major events…alongside its widely publicized
success at making giving back fun, cool and aspirational…has
unlocked huge pools of previously untapped support for charitable
efforts, delivered with revolutionary cost-efficiency.
Founded by actor Edward Norton,
film producer Shauna Robertson and
Robert and Jeffrey Wolfe, CrowdRise
has conceived, implemented and powered campaigns that
have raised over $250 million to date
and is on track to raise $200
million in 2015 alone.
CrowdRise's major partners include the New York City Marathon,
the Boston Marathon, Red Cross, UNICEF, IRONMAN, United Airlines,
Huffington Post, Eventbrite, Square, the Skoll Foundation, the
Clinton Foundation, CAA, UTA, as well as artists like John Legend,
Sean Penn, Seth Rogen, Jonah
Hill, Ian Sommerhalder,
Sophia Bush, Paul Rudd, Olivia
Wilde and many more.
The CrowdRise community was named a "Top 25 Best Global
Philanthropist" by Barron's.
About Live Nation
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world's leading
live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders:
Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, Live Nation Media &
Sponsorship and Artist Nation Management. For additional
information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.
About Trainwreck
No contemporary filmmaker has chronicled the messy human
experience with the eye and ear of a comedic cultural
anthropologist like Judd
Apatow. Hits as varied as those he's directed, like
Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and those he's
produced, like Superbad and Bridesmaids, are all
unified by their honest, unflinching, comic look at how complicated
it is to grow up in the modern world.
Apatow has also built a history of helping break distinctive new
comedy voices into the mainstream, from Seth Rogen to Lena
Dunham among many others. Now, in his fifth feature
film as a director, Apatow again brings a portrait of an
unforgettable character, and a portrayal by a breakout new comedy
star, together in Trainwreck, written by and starring
Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer) as a woman who lives her life
without apologies, even when maybe she should apologize.
Since she was a little girl, it's been drilled into Amy's
(Schumer) head by her rascal of a dad (Colin Quinn) that monogamy isn't
realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that
credo—enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from
stifling, boring romantic commitment—but in actuality, she's kind
of in a rut. When she finds herself starting to fall for the
subject of the new article she's writing, a charming and successful
sports doctor named Aaron Conners
(Bill Hader), Amy starts to wonder
if other grown-ups, including this guy who really seems to like
her, might be on to something.
The comedy, from a script written by Schumer, co-stars Brie
Larson, John Cena, Tilda Swinton and LeBron
James. Apatow produces Trainwreck through his
Apatow Productions alongside Barry
Mendel (Bridesmaids, This Is 40).
www.trainwreckmovie.com
About Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures is a division of Universal Studios
(www.universalstudios.com). Universal Studios is part of
NBCUniversal. NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading
media and entertainment companies in the development, production
and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global
audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio
of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture
company, significant television production operations, a leading
television stations group and world-renowned theme parks.
NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
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