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Three-time Emmy® nominee Amy Schumer (“Inside Amy Schumer”) stars as a commitment-phobic journalist in TRAINWRECK, the film Fandango calls “the funniest movie of the year,” is coming to Digital HD October 20, 2015, and Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on November 10, 2015, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Schumer takes her undeniable talents to the big screen tossing aside rom-com conventions with a timely and outrageously funny portrait of an unapologetically independent career woman whose hard-partying personal life is turned upside down when she meets Mr. Might-Be-Right. Directed and produced by comedy guru Judd Apatow (Bridesmaids, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, “Girls”), Trainwreck UNRATED arrives on Blu-ray™ & DVD with even more hysterical moments, including deleted scenes, gag reel, line-o-rama & more!

Since she was a little girl, Amy (Amy Schumer) has been taught that monogamy isn’t realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo, enjoying an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment. But when she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of a new article she’s writing, a charming and successful sports doctor (Bill Hader), Amy starts to wonder if other grown-ups, including this guy who really seems to like her, might be onto something.

Schumer, called “comedy’s funny & fearless new voice” by Entertainment Weekly, heads up an accomplished cast featuring Bill Hader (“Saturday Night Live,” Inside Out), NBA All-Star LeBron James, Tilda Swinton (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom), Brie Larson (The Gambler, 21 Jump Street), Colin Quinn (“Saturday Night Live,” “Girls”), Vanessa Bayer (“Saturday Night Live,” “Portlandia”) and WWE star John Cena, in a contemporary look at romance that’s “hilarious, heartwarming, and refreshingly honest” (WNYW FOX-TV).

WAMG is giving away copies of the film to celebrate the film’s Blu-ray/DVD release.

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BLU-RAY AND DVD BONUS FEATURES

• UNRATED Version
• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel
• Line-O-Rama
• The Secrets of the Wu – Method Man and Norman Lloyd talk about his music experience as part of the WuTang Clan and even invites Norman to join the Wu.
• Feature Commentary with Director Judd Apatow, Writer/Star Amy Schumer, and Associate Producer Kim Caramele.

BONUS FEATURES EXCLUSIVE TO BLU-RAY:

• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel
• Extended/Alternate Scenes
• Behind-The-Scenes – A look at the making of the film through the production as we follow alongside director Judd Apatow, cast members Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Norman Lloyd, Tilda Swinson, and Daniel Radcliff, as well as the rest of the cast.
• Directing Athletes: A Blood Sport – The athletes of Trainwreck talk about their experiences under the direction of Judd Apatow.
• The Dogwalker – Daniel Radcliffe plays the dogwalker in this film that Amy and Steven go see at the theater.
• Trainwreck Comedy Tour Featurette – Take a peek backstage at the Trainwreck Comedy Tour featuring comedy all-stars Amy Schumer, Mike Birbiglia, Colin Quinn, Dave Atell, Vanessa Bayer and Judd Apatow.
• Red Band Trailer

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FILMMAKERS:
Cast: Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, John Cena, Vanessa Bayer, Tilda Swinton and LeBron James.
Directed By: Judd Apatow
Written By: Amy Schumer
Produced By: Judd Apatow PGA, Barry Mendel PGA
Executive Produced By: David B. Householter
Director of Photography: Jody Lee Lipes
Production Designer: Kevin Thompson
Edited By: William Kerr ACE, Paul Zucker
Costume Designers: Jessica Albertson, Leesa Evans
Music By: Jon Brion

TECHNICAL INFORMATION BLU-RAY™:
Street Date: November 10, 2015
Copyright: 2015 Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Selection Number: 61164008 (US)/61164013 (CDN)
Layers: BD-50
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 2.40:1
Rating: R for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use/NR
Languages/Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish and French Subtitles
Sound: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1/Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish DTS Surround 5.1, French DTS Surround 5.1
Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes; 2 hours, 9 minutes

TECHNICAL INFORMATION DVD
Street Date: November 10, 2015
Copyright: 2015 Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Selection Number: 61164009 (US)/61165859 (CDN)
Layers: Dual
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Rating: R for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use/NR
Languages/Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish and French Subtitles
Sound: English Dolby Digital 5.1/Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1
Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes; 2 hours 9 minutes

This Week’s WAMG Podcast – Marvel Movies, ANT-MAN, TRAINWRECK and More!

This week’s episode of our podcast WE ARE MOVIE GEEKS The Show is up! Hear WAMG’s Jim Batts, Michelle McCue and Tom Stockman discuss the weekend box office, and next weekend’s releases. We’ll review ANT-MAN, TRAINWRECK, SOUTHPAW, and INFINITELY POLAR BEAR. We’ll also discuss at length the movies based on Marvel Comics properties – from HOWARD THE DUCK to ANT-MAN. WE ARE MOVIE GEEKS The Show is a weekly podcast and we will soon be streaming at ONStl.com Online Radio.

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TRAINWRECK Is A Hit At Box Office With $30.2 Million ; ANT-MAN Takes No. 1 Spot With $58 Million

This weekend audiences witnessed the birth of a new Hollywood star.

TRAINWRECK, starring Amy Schumer, brought in better than expected numbers with an estimated $30.2 million. The Judd Apatow directed, R-rated comedy was No. 3 in U.S. sales and was written by and co-produced by Schumer. The actress/comedian is the creator, star, writer and executive producer of the Primetime Emmy Award-nominated Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central) and is also known for hit one-hour stand-up special, Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff.

TRAINWRECK joins SPY, PITCH PERFECT 2, EX MACHINA in a list of women-themed films that have been well received by the critics and had success at the box office.

Marvel’s ANT-MAN was the No. 1 film of the weekend with $58 million. Globally it sits at $114.4 million.

Meanwhile, Universal Pictures MINIONS was No. 2 with $50 million for a domestic total of $216.7 million.

Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian commented, “It’s fitting that Universal’s ‘Minions’ tops the global box office chart this weekend since the studio is celebrating yet another record with the fastest spring to $5 billion in worldwide revenue in industry history.”

MR. HOLMES, starring Ian McKellen in an awards-worthy performance, brought in an estimated $2.5 million from 363 U.S. theaters.

The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, July 19, 2015, are below.

1. Ant-Man – Disney – $58.0M
2. Minions – Universal – $50.2M
3. Trainwreck – Universal – $30.2M
4. Inside Out – Disney – $11.7M
5. Jurassic World – Universal – $11.4M
6. Terminator Genisys – Paramount – $5.4M
7. Magic Mike XXL – Warner Bros. – $4.5M
8. Gallows – Warner Bros. – $4.0M
9. Ted 2 – Universal – $2.7M
10. Mr. Holmes – Roadside Attractions – $2.5M
11. Bajrangi Bhaijaan – Eros Entertainment – $2.4M
12. Self/Less – Focus Features – $2.3M

The top 12 worldwide weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, July 19, 2015, are below.

1. Minions – Universal – $116.4M
2. Ant-Man – Disney – $114.4M
3. Monster Hunt – Multiple – $72.0M
4. Jian Bing Man – Multiple – $61.0M
5. Inside Out – Disney – $33.0M
6. Trainwreck – Universal – $30.2M
7. Terminator Genisys – Paramount Pictures – $27.6M
8. Jurassic World – Universal – $23.7M
9. Monkey King: Hero is Back – Multiple – $22.5M
10. Magic Mike XXL – Warner Bros. – $10.3M
11. Ted 2 – Universal – $10.2M
12. Gallows – Warner Bros. – $6.1M

TRAINWRECK – The Review

TRAINWRECK is smart and funny and its female-centric theme will appeal to many women. I just hope they have the patience to trudge through the slow spots in the story which director Judd Apatow should have trimmed down to a more brisk running time. Amy Schumer wrote TRAINWRECK and stars as single New Yorker Amy, a feature writer at S’Nuff, a jerky magazine that runs articles such as “You’re Not Gay, She’s Boring” and “You Call These Tits?”. Amy is a Good Time Gal who smokes pot, drinks too much, and sleeps with more than her share of men. Sometimes she avoids the walk of shame, but other times wakes up wondering whose bed she’s landed in (“I hope this isn’t a dorm room” she mumbles after spotting a SCARFACE poster on the wall of her latest drunken conquest). Though she sorta has a boyfriend (John Cena), when it comes to relationships, Amy is decidedly noncommittal. The film opens with a flashback speech from her father (Colin Quinn) about whether monogamy is even possible, illustrating his point with young Amy’s doll. Her editor (Tilda Swinton) assigns her a story on geeky Dr. Aaron (Bill Hader), a surgeon who specializes in rebuilding injured athletes. She seduces him after their first meeting, only to realize that he’s really into her, and to her surprise, she may feel the same way.

TRAINWRECK is often hilarious but plays as more a series of sketches than a full-blooded movie. The overall result is patchy and at 122 minutes, the film is at least half an hour too long. Seeing it I felt like I was binge-watching 4 or 5 episodes of some sort of foul-mouthed Amy Schumer sitcom popular on HBO (I’m aware such show exists somewhere). Ms Schumer is a huge talent but has the presence of a TV actress, not a movie star. Apatow’s penchant for close-ups and medium shots adds to the small screen feel. A romantic montage spoof ending with the Queensboro Bridge shot from the MANHATTAN poster (with Amy noting “I think this is where Woody Allen met Soon Yi”!), is the only time TRAINWRECK seemed cinematic. Schumer’s script is clever but uneven and the director’s trademark improvisation creates messy scenes that don’t know when to end. An odd intervention sequence with Chris Everett, Mathew Broderick, and Marv Alpert (a punchline 20 years ago!) is a dud and the climactic cheerleader showdown goes on and on just when you want the movie to end. There’s also a weird movie-within-the-movie, The Dog Walker, starring Daniel Radcliff and Marisa Tomei, that they should either have done more with or left out.

Fortunately, TRAINWRECK is blessed with a large and terrific supporting cast for which Schumer has generously written colorful roles. The two surprise scene-stealers are a pair of athletes – NBA star LeBron James proves a natural comedian playing himself as a Downton Abbey fan who’s both Aaron’s patient and best friend, always with the doctor’s best interest at heart. And former WWF lunk John Cena as Amy’s musclebound boyfriend is not only notably funny but provides real warmth in a scene where he, believing he and Amy are dating exclusively, is heartbroken to discover that’s not the case. Comic Dave Attell gets in some zingers as the acerbic homeless guy living in front of Amy’s building and an unrecognizable Tilda Swinton rules as Amy’s brittle boss. Brie Larsen brings some seriousness as Amy’s sister Kim, Colin Quinn gets more comedic mileage out of his role as Amy’s sick racist dad than he probably should have, and it’s nice (if startling) to see 100-year old Norman Lloyd in a role, small as it may be, as one of dad’s nursing home pals. Hader nicely plays the decent straight man here, though you wonder why a successful surgeon would put up with the mercurial Amy (“You go down on me too much!” she scolds, “but don’t try to spin this into a reason to not go down on me!”)

Judd Apatow comes up with a lot of great ideas and has a formidable eye for talent in others. He noticed Steve Carell, Seth Rogan, and Kristen Wiig in minor roles in his other films and launched them to stardom. His and Schumer’s decision to blanket the thin narrative of TRAINWRECK with overlong and needless interludes inevitably wreak some havoc on the movie’s momentum, but many, especially women, are going to love the film and I do recommend it.

3 of 5 Stars

New Le Bron James TRAINWRECK Featurette Comes Online

Director Judd Apatow, Amy Schumer, Bill Hader discuss NBA superstar Le Bron James’ crossover role in a new featurette from TRAINWRECK.

The new comedy starring Schumer, Hader and James alongside Brie Larson, John Cena, Vanessa Bayer, Mike Birbiglia, Ezra Miller, Dave Attell and Tilda Swinton opens in theaters this Friday.

TRAINWRECK, written by and starring Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer) is the story of 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.

TRAINWRECK has been rated R (Restricted – Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian) for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use.

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Win Passes To The Advance Screening of TRAINWRECK In St. Louis

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.

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).

WAMG invites you to enter for a chance to win passes (Good for 2) to the advance screening of TRAINWRECK on TUESDAY, JULY 14TH at 7PM in the St. Louis area.

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TRAINWRECK has been rated R (Restricted – Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian) for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use.

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Amy Schumer Stars In New Trailers & Poster For TRAINWRECK

Universal Pictures has released the new trailers, poster and photos from director Judd Apatow’s TRAINWRECK starring the very funny Amy Schumer. Watch her standup here and here.

Also featuring Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, John Cena, with Tilda Swinton and LeBron James, check out the two trailers below.

Green Band Trailer –

Red Band Trailer – (send the kiddos out of the room for this one)

Also written by Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer), the actress stars as a woman who lives her life without apologies, even when maybe she should apologize.