AKRON, Ohio -- To the left of the marquee at the theater where LeBron James' first motion picture premiered in Akron was a message:
"I promise to never forget where I came from."
Now Judd Apatow, Bill Hader, and Amy Schumer won't forget, either.
James hosted the Hollywood stars and his cohorts from the movie "Trainwreck" for a red-carpet premiere tonight at the Regal Cinemas Montrose Movie 12 in Akron. The movie's larger debut is Tuesday in New York and it opens nationwide on July 17.
For James, 30, whose return to the Cleveland Cavaliers last summer and fall was marked by several national commercials touting his Akron roots, bringing his first movie (and its stars) to a strip-mall theater here just off I-77 served as another opportunity for him to showcase home.