Kevin Hart: What Now?

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Kevin Hart: What Now?
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
Produced by
  • Jeff Clanagan
  • Kevin Hart
  • Blake Morrison
  • Valerie Bleth Sharp
Starring
  • Kevin Hart
Cinematography
  • Cameron Barnett
  • Christopher Duskin
Edited by
  • Peter S. Elliot
  • Guy Harding
Music by Christopher Lennertz
Production
company
HartBeat Productions
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • October 14, 2016 (2016-10-14)
Running time
96 minutes [2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$9.9 million [3]
Box office$23.6 million [3]

Kevin Hart: What Now? is a 2016 American stand-up comedy concert film starring comedian Kevin Hart, based on his 2015 stand-up tour of the same name. [4] It is the third theatrical release of a Hart stand-up show, following Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain (2011) and Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013). The film was released in the United States on October 14, 2016. It received generally positive reviews and grossed $23 million.

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Plot

In the film's spy sub-plot, set before the events of the performance, Kevin is secret agent for MI6 (Agent 0054) and attends a poker game event with his date Money Berry (Halle Berry), only for it to go horribly wrong.

In the performance portion, which takes up most of the film, Hart performs at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, providing a humorous insight into parenting, people on the edge, and hardships in everyday life.

Cast

Release

On May 6, 2015, Universal Pictures announced that Kevin Hart: What Now?, a stand-up comedy film featuring a performance of Kevin Hart's What Now? Tour, would be theatrically released in the United States on October 14, 2016. [5] The show was filmed live on August 30, 2015 in front of 53,000 people, at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field, [1] [6] [7] with a live dress rehearsal for a small, intimate audience filmed at the stadium the night before on August 29, 2015. [8]

The film's teaser trailer was released January 12, 2016, and was shown in front of screenings of Universal's Ride Along 2 . [9]

DVD and Blu-ray release for What Now? came out January 10, 2017

Soundtrack

As Chocolate Droppa, his alias, he signed to Motown Records and released Kevin Hart: What Now? (The Mixtape Presents Chocolate Droppa) , the soundtrack to the stand-up film. He released the singles "Push It On Me" featuring Trey Songz and "Baller Alert" with Migos & T.I.

Comedy album

A comedy album was also released for Kevin Hart: What Now?, and was nominated for Best Comedy Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards. [10]

Reception

Box office

The film was expected to gross $13–15 million from 2,567 theaters in its opening weekend. [11] It ended up opening to $11.8 million, finishing second at the box office, and beating out Let Me Explain ($10 million) as the highest opening among Hart's stand-up comedy concert films. [12] The film went on to gross a total of $23.6 million, the second highest of Hart's stand-up films, behind Let Me Explain ($32.3 million). [3]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 76% based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 6.13/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Kevin Hart: What Now? packs in enough of the comedian's infectious energy to more than compensate for the lulls in a stand-up set that doesn't quite rank with his best." [13] On Metacritic, the film has a score 60 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [14] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale. [15]

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