After Monday's horrible Boston
Marathon bombing, Twentieth Century Fox has decided to host a special
advance screening of the new Sandra Bullock buddy cop film The Heat for
Boston police officers and FBI agents.
The crime-comedy, which hits theaters June 28, was filmed in Boston last summer and it's considered a 'love letter' to the city.
McCarthy echoed the sentiments of her co-star and filmmaker.
'It's a remarkable place, an amazing city that's obviously going through a really tough situation,' said the 42-year-old Oscar nominee. 'I have a sweet spot for it now.'
Three people died and 180 were injured in the two Boston Marathon explosions, which rocked the entire nation on Monday. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains on the loose.
The crime-comedy, which hits theaters June 28, was filmed in Boston last summer and it's considered a 'love letter' to the city.
Bringing levity to Beantown: 20th Century Fox
has decided to host a special advance screening of the new Sandra
Bullock-Melissa McCarthy buddy cop film The Heat for Boston police
officers and FBI agents
'It's not a movie where it's supposed
to be New York but it's shot in Boston,' The Heat director Paul Feig
(Bridesmaids) told CNN.
'This takes place in Boston. We have Boston natives in the movie, like Jane Curtin and [comic-actor] Bill Burr and [New Kids on the Block's] Joey McIntyre — all these famous Bostonians are in it. And if this movie can help Boston laugh, then that would be great.'
The Heat concerns Sarah Ashburn
(Bullock) a by-the-book FBI agent, who partners up with a tough
detective named Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) to take down a
Russian drug lord.
Coincidentally, The Heat's villain is Russian, not unlike fugitive bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev - who died in a gun fight with police on Thursday night.
'That city is made up of amazing, strong, loyal, kind, giving people, and you saw that once everything happened,' 48-year-old Oscar-winner.
'You saw the amount of people that rushed into the danger and just helped everyone. All tragedies - it brings out the best in people, and you just see what a great, great, great place Boston is.'
Bullock continued: 'It's been an
amazing tight-knit community before this happened, and it just bonded a
community even more.
'I don't think a screening would ever be enough, feel like it's enough to do for them.'
The early buzz from Las Vegas' CinemaCon, where the film screened Thursday, was that The Heat was 'well-received'.
And despite the release being two months away, a sequel is already being penned.
'This takes place in Boston. We have Boston natives in the movie, like Jane Curtin and [comic-actor] Bill Burr and [New Kids on the Block's] Joey McIntyre — all these famous Bostonians are in it. And if this movie can help Boston laugh, then that would be great.'
'I
don't think a screening would ever be enough': Bullock said that all
tragedies brings out the best in people, 'and you just see what a great,
great, great place Boston is'
Coincidentally, The Heat's villain is Russian, not unlike fugitive bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev - who died in a gun fight with police on Thursday night.
'That city is made up of amazing, strong, loyal, kind, giving people, and you saw that once everything happened,' 48-year-old Oscar-winner.
'You saw the amount of people that rushed into the danger and just helped everyone. All tragedies - it brings out the best in people, and you just see what a great, great, great place Boston is.'
The Heat: The crime-comedy, which hits theaters
June 28, was filmed in Boston last summer and it's considered a 'love
letter' to the city
The storyline: Sarah Ashburn (Bullock) a
by-the-book FBI agent partners up with a tough detective named Shannon
Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) to take down a Russian drug lord
'I don't think a screening would ever be enough, feel like it's enough to do for them.'
The early buzz from Las Vegas' CinemaCon, where the film screened Thursday, was that The Heat was 'well-received'.
And despite the release being two months away, a sequel is already being penned.
Authentic Bostonians: SNL veteran Jane
Curtin, comedian Bill Burr, and New Kids on the Block's Joey McIntyre
all hail from Boston and they all appear in The Heat
Single mother: On Friday, Bullock donned a
b&w-striped jumper, cuffed blue jeans, and black flats to drops off
her three-year-old adopted son Louis at school in Los Angeles
'It's a remarkable place, an amazing city that's obviously going through a really tough situation,' said the 42-year-old Oscar nominee. 'I have a sweet spot for it now.'
Three people died and 180 were injured in the two Boston Marathon explosions, which rocked the entire nation on Monday. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains on the loose.
Senseless
tragedy: Three people died and 180 were injured in the two Boston
Marathon explosions, which rocked the entire nation on Monday