UNIVERSAL PICTURES AND IMAGINE ENTERTAINMENT PRESENT THE WORLD PREMIERE OF GET ON UP AT THE APOLLO THEATER IN HARLEM MONDAY, JULY 21, 2014

WHAT:

The world premiere of the drama GET ON UP

GET ON UP director/producer Tate Taylor; producers Brian Grazer, Mick Jagger, Victoria Pearman, Erica Huggins; cast members Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Fred Melamed, Craig Robinson, Jill Scott, Josh Hopkins, Brandon Smith, Tika Sumpter, Tariq Trotter, Keith Robinson, Alvin Edney and Jamell Richardson; cast member/choreographer Aakomon Jones; writers/executive producers Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth; writer Steven Baigelman; executive producers Peter Afterman, Trish Hofmann, John Norris, Anna Culp; and very special guests: members of the James Brown family

WHERE:

Apollo Theater

253 West 125^th Street

New York City, NY

WHEN:

Monday, July 21, 2014

5:30 PM        Press Call Time

6:30 PM        Celebrity Arrivals

7:30 PM        Screening Begins

GET ON UP arrives in theaters nationwide on Friday, August 1, 2014.  www.getonupmovie.com