On Tuesday, YouTube hosted its first-ever stateside FanFest event -- where a slew of top creators gathered for meet-and-greets and live performances -- at Howard University in celebration of its 150th anniversary.
The event, organized by #YouTubeBlack -- an internal effort to support the platform’s black creator community -- featured performances from Alonzo Lerone, Amber’s Closet, Dainá: Dormtainment, Miles Jai, RandomStructureTV, Spoken Reasons, Summerella, Tré Melvin, TPindell, VanJess, and Daniel Caesar.
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The event, organized by #YouTubeBlack -- an internal effort to support the platform’s black creator community -- featured performances from Alonzo Lerone, Amber’s Closet, Dainá: Dormtainment, Miles Jai, RandomStructureTV, Spoken Reasons, Summerella, Tré Melvin, TPindell, VanJess, and Daniel Caesar.
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- 10/20/2017
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Sandra Bullock The Heat: Bullock’s biggest opening weekend at domestic box office? (Photo: Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock in The Heat) Starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig’s buddy comedy The Heat opened with a remarkable — and better than initially expected — $39.11 million at 3,181 Us/Canada locations according to the June 28-30, 2013, weekend box-office figures found at Box Office Mojo. This weekend in North America, The Heat trailed only last weekend’s holdover, Disney / Pixar’s Monsters University, which collected $45.6 million. (See also how White House Down does Channing Tatum no favors.”) A 20th Century Fox release reportedly budgeted at $41 million (not including marketing and distribution expenses, or contractual box-office-gross-sharing obligations), The Heat went above the $35 million I’d predicted on Saturday because that day’s estimates found at Deadline.com were lower than in reality. The Heat was up 5% on Saturday, even though Friday’s box-office take included late Thursday shows.
- 7/2/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
The Heat is on: Weekend box office of Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock comedy is solid — but hardly outstanding Paul Feig’s comedy The Heat, starring Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock, is having a solid — though hardly outstanding — debut weekend. (See also: “White House Down: Roland Emmerich’s Worst Opening in Two Decades?“) (Photo: Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock in The Heat.) First things first: the no. 1 slot on the Us/Canada box-office chart this weekend, June 28-30, 2013, belongs to last weekend’s champ, Disney / Pixar’s animated feature Monsters University. Featuring the voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman, and Helen Mirren, among others, Monsters University could easily collect $45 million by Sunday evening, after grossing $14.28 million on Friday according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Its domestic cume should then reach close to $170 million. At no. 2, 20th Century Fox’s The Heat will likely reach $35 million from 3,181 locations,...
- 6/30/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
White House Down box office: Ahead of World War Z? (photo: Channing Tatum in White House Down) Roland Emmerich’s $150 million-budgeted actioner White House Down was to have landed in the fourth slot on the domestic box-office chart on Friday, June 28, behind Marc Forster / Brad Pitt’s horror sleeper hit World War Z. The Sandra Bullock / Melissa McCarthy comedy The Heat, for its part, was expected to be the no. 1 movie at the North American box office, according to early, rough estimates posted at Deadline.com in the afternoon. Well, what a difference a few hours make. [Addendum: What a difference another few hours make... Studio estimates turned out to be lower than the early unofficial estimates, with The Heat collecting $13.6 million and White House Down earning a dismal $9 million. More details and weekend box-office analysis later this evening.] At 3,222 locations, White House Down should collect an estimated $10.5 million on Friday, including $1.35 million from late Thursday shows, while World War Z has had its Friday box-office gross revised downward to $9.3 million. If these updated, unofficial estimates are on target, that means this Friday White House Down will trail only The Heat and Monsters University.
- 6/29/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
The Heat movie box office: Monsters University offers tough Friday competition (photo: Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock in Paul Feig’s The Heat movie) It’s a dead-heat (sorry) between the Sandra Bullock / Melissa McCarthy movie comedy The Heat and the Disney / Pixar animated feature Monsters University at the North American box office this Friday, June 28. Roland Emmerich’s White House Down is down (sorry again) in fourth place, according to very early, very rough Friday box-office estimates found at Deadline.com. (See updated Friday box-office post: “White House Down Ahead of World War Z?“) Directed by Bridesmaids‘ Paul Feig, the 20th Century Fox release The Heat collected $1 million from late Thursday shows. Including that figure, The Heat should reach $13-$16 million from 3,181 locations on Friday — which is about the same expected gross for Monsters University. The Heat, of course, has the advantage not only of the Thursday shows, but...
- 6/29/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
The Heat is on, according to People's movie critic. Meanwhile, she's not sure whether the guilt outweighs the pleasure in Channing Tatum's White House Down but finds I'm So Excited to be high-flying fun.See This• The Heat There's already been a fair amount of handwringing in some circles over whether The Heat, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy's buddy-cop movie, is truly feminist. It's a big-budget female-driven comedy, so that's a plus for women. But their characters are damaged and unlikable, so that's supposedly a minus. They're terrific at their jobs, another win. But their male colleagues don't respect them,...
- 6/28/2013
- by Alynda Wheat, PEOPLE Movie Critic
- PEOPLE.com
This year moviegoers finally felt the full force of a star that went supernova two years ago…a major comedy star named Melissa McCarthy. She had accumulated small roles in film and TV, but the surprise Summer smash of 2011, Bridesmaids, made everyone take notice, even Oscar (she was a Best Supporting Actress nominee), when she stole almost every scene. Since then Ms. McCarthy’s kept busy doing a CBS sitcom named “Mike and Molly” (and has nabbed an Emmy) and last Winter she had an all too brief cameo in This Is 40 (you have to stick around for the end credits which included several unused takes that are a wonder of improvisation). But now we’re finally getting her in showcase movie lead roles (besides a very funny cameo in the otherwise dreary recent The Hangover III). This past February she co-starred with Jason Bateman in the surprise box...
- 6/28/2013
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It’s not often that I’m honestly surprised by the quality of a film, but I’m going to start this review off on a positive note and say The Heat was a pleasantly riotous surprise in the form of a raunchier version of a Rizzoli & Isles type show. I’m not sure why I doubted director Paul Feig after scoring with his female version of The Hangover, Bridesmaids, but none of the trailers for this hard-r buddy-cop picture tickled my fancy in the slightest – even the profanity laced Red Band trailer. But none of that matters now, because I still have yet to locate my ass in the theater since I subsequently laughed it completely off.
If you’ve seen any “rough and tumble local police officer is forced to pair up with a straight-edge Federal Agent” comedy, then you’ll know exactly how this story goes. Sandra Bullock...
If you’ve seen any “rough and tumble local police officer is forced to pair up with a straight-edge Federal Agent” comedy, then you’ll know exactly how this story goes. Sandra Bullock...
- 6/27/2013
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Chicago – An incredibly talented ensemble elevates a pretty pedestrian script in the just-funny-enough “The Heat,” a movie that gets better as it goes along, largely because its two mega-talented stars carry it over some mediocre patches of writing. Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock simply have unimpeachable comic timing.
They know how to work a joke, hit a punchline, and inject just enough character to make it feel three-dimensional. They’re reason enough to see “The Heat,” even if one wishes the film around them was up to their talents.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
FBI Agent Ashburn (Bullock) doesn’t have a lot of friends, on the force or otherwise. She’s one of those Type-a personalities who seems to take a bit too much joy in getting every detail of a case exactly right, down to shaming the drug-sniffing dog who misses out on the stash she finds instead. No one is good enough to work with Ashburn,...
They know how to work a joke, hit a punchline, and inject just enough character to make it feel three-dimensional. They’re reason enough to see “The Heat,” even if one wishes the film around them was up to their talents.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
FBI Agent Ashburn (Bullock) doesn’t have a lot of friends, on the force or otherwise. She’s one of those Type-a personalities who seems to take a bit too much joy in getting every detail of a case exactly right, down to shaming the drug-sniffing dog who misses out on the stash she finds instead. No one is good enough to work with Ashburn,...
- 6/27/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Give it up for Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. You'll never see them work harder at comedy than in "The Heat," a stumbling, aggressively loud and profane cop buddy picture where they struggle to wring "funny" out of a script that isn't.
Plot? It's more a collection of scenes that force the stars to riff and riff until something coarse and amusing comes out, topped by something else coarser and more amusing. Instructions must have read, "Sandy and Melissa go to a dance club, where Melissa hacks off chunks of Sandy's costume to make her 'sexy.'" Or "Melissa and Sandy get drunk in a bar and line dance."
Better still, "Our intrepid, mismatched 'buddies' are tied up by the bad guys and turn a simple leg stabbing into a comic escape attempt."
Bullock, finally back to making the sorts of "Miss Congeniality" dogs she was doing before "The Blind Side,...
Plot? It's more a collection of scenes that force the stars to riff and riff until something coarse and amusing comes out, topped by something else coarser and more amusing. Instructions must have read, "Sandy and Melissa go to a dance club, where Melissa hacks off chunks of Sandy's costume to make her 'sexy.'" Or "Melissa and Sandy get drunk in a bar and line dance."
Better still, "Our intrepid, mismatched 'buddies' are tied up by the bad guys and turn a simple leg stabbing into a comic escape attempt."
Bullock, finally back to making the sorts of "Miss Congeniality" dogs she was doing before "The Blind Side,...
- 6/27/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
This hilarious-looking comedy for Fox looks to offer tons of laughs this summer season, come its June 28th release date. Paul Feig directs the cop pic teaming Sandra Bullock with Melissa McCarthy, and a supporting cast including Demián Bichir, Taran Killam, Kaitlin Olson, Michael Rapaport, Thomas F. Wilson, Nathan Corddry, Tony Hale, Andy Buckley, Bill Burr, Spoken Reasons and Raw Leiba. In The Heat, uptight FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Bullock) and foul-mouthed Boston cop Shannon Mullins (McCarthy) couldn't be more incompatible. But when they join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies.
- 6/16/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Get More: Movie Trailers, Movies Blog If there's anyone who can save us from what feels like an uninspiring summer movie season, it's Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. The unlikely comic duo is teaming up for The Heat, the next film from Bridesmaids director Paul Feig that changes genres entirely, casting the two as FBI agents who aren't exactly good at working with partners. In the clip above, which premiered at MTV, Bullock and McCarthy are trying to give the hard press to Spoken Reasons (yes, that's his name!), who says over and over again that "I'm out," but I'm guessing sticks around for at least part of the movie's action anyway. The Heat isn't garnering the kind of attention that giant summer blockbusters usually do, but it's been taking a much more subtle approach toward getting us excited, namely by releasing trailers that are really funny (the scene in...
- 4/12/2013
- cinemablend.com
Here’s a new UK trailer (featuring some new footage) for the upcoming comedy The Heat, which comes from Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids and stars Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, along with Demian Bichir, Tony Hale, Spoken Reasons, Taran Killam, Kaitlin Olson and Michael Rapaport. The Heat is set for an April 5th 2013 release.
Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence – and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), one of Boston P.D.’s “finest,” is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut instinct and street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals. Neither has ever had a partner, or a friend for that matter. When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies.
Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence – and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), one of Boston P.D.’s “finest,” is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut instinct and street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals. Neither has ever had a partner, or a friend for that matter. When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies.
- 1/29/2013
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Check the new red-band trailer for the upcoming comedy The Heat (courtesy of IGN), which comes from Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids and stars Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, along with Demian Bichir, Tony Hale, Spoken Reasons, Taran Killam, Kaitlin Olson and Michael Rapaport. The Heat is set for an April 5th 2013 release.
Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence – and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), one of Boston P.D.’s “finest,” is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut instinct and street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals. Neither has ever had a partner, or a friend for that matter. When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies.
Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence – and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), one of Boston P.D.’s “finest,” is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut instinct and street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals. Neither has ever had a partner, or a friend for that matter. When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies.
- 12/20/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Paul Feig's The Heat comedy gets a first trailer with Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy starring in the action comedy The story tells of an uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn (played by Sandra Bullock) who, in order to take down a ruthless drug lord, is paired with testy Boston cop Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy). However, neither woman has ever had a partner....or a friend. Also in the cast are Demián Bichir, Taran Killam, Kaitlin Olson, Michael Rapaport, Thomas F. Wilson, Nathan Corddry, Tony Hale, Andy Buckley, Bill Burr, Spoken Reasons and Raw Leiba.
- 11/27/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Paul Feig's The Heat comedy gets a first trailer with Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy starring in the action comedy The story tells of an uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn (played by Sandra Bullock) who, in order to take down a ruthless drug lord, is paired with testy Boston cop Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy). However, neither woman has ever had a partner....or a friend. Also in the cast are Demián Bichir, Taran Killam, Kaitlin Olson, Michael Rapaport, Thomas F. Wilson, Nathan Corddry, Tony Hale, Andy Buckley, Bill Burr, Spoken Reasons and Raw Leiba.
- 11/27/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Arriving via iTunes Movies Trailers, here’s the first trailer for the upcoming comedy The Heat, which comes from Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids and stars Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, along with Demian Bichir, Tony Hale, Spoken Reasons, Taran Killam, Kaitlin Olson and Michael Rapaport. The Heat is set for an April 5th 2013 release.
Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence – and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), one of Boston P.D.’s “finest,” is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut instinct and street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals. Neither has ever had a partner, or a friend for that matter. When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies.
Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence – and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), one of Boston P.D.’s “finest,” is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut instinct and street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals. Neither has ever had a partner, or a friend for that matter. When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies.
- 11/19/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Tony Hale‘s a funny guy, and Paul Feig (somewhat) recently made a funny movie. We’re already in business.
Anyway, Variety reports that the former will appear for the latter’s newest effort, The Heat, a cop comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock. Now, while fans of his Arrested Development/Veep work might be somewhat disappointed to read about the part — seeing as it sounds pretty small and what-not — I imagine him as “a man who McCarthy‘s character arrests for soliciting a prostitute” and can only laugh.
The screenplay, by Katie Dippold (Parks and Recreation), doesn’t center on arrests of that sort, but two law enforcement officers — “a high-strung FBI agent” (Bullock) and “unconventional Boston cop” (McCarthy) — who have to find and arrest a Russian mobster. John Baker (or “Spoken Reasons”) is also starring in The Heat, which will begin shooting next month.
Now, for competing action movies.
Anyway, Variety reports that the former will appear for the latter’s newest effort, The Heat, a cop comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock. Now, while fans of his Arrested Development/Veep work might be somewhat disappointed to read about the part — seeing as it sounds pretty small and what-not — I imagine him as “a man who McCarthy‘s character arrests for soliciting a prostitute” and can only laugh.
The screenplay, by Katie Dippold (Parks and Recreation), doesn’t center on arrests of that sort, but two law enforcement officers — “a high-strung FBI agent” (Bullock) and “unconventional Boston cop” (McCarthy) — who have to find and arrest a Russian mobster. John Baker (or “Spoken Reasons”) is also starring in The Heat, which will begin shooting next month.
Now, for competing action movies.
- 7/9/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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