Awkwafina and John Cena discover that successful the lottery shouldn’t be all it’s cracked as much as be within the trailer for the action-comedy film Jackpot!
The Amazon MGM Studios movie from director Paul Feig begins streaming through Prime Video on Aug. 15. Set in Los Angeles in 2030, Jackpot! focuses on Katie (Awkwafina), a struggling actress who wins the lottery with out realizing that the state of California grants everybody else till sunset to homicide the winner and declare the prize cash with out penalties. Serving to Katie to remain alive is an novice lottery safety agent (Cena), who will get a minimize of the money if she survives.
“Katie, you received the lottery. Now, anybody with a dropping ticket that kills you earlier than sunset will get your cash — legally,” Cena explains within the trailer. After Awkwafina replies that this feels like homicide, he clarifies, “Oh, not in California. It’s simply an opportunity on the large time.”
Later, Awkwafina tells him, “I do belief you. I feel it’s since you appear like a bulldog that, like, a witch forged a spell on and become a human. You ever get that?”
Feig (Bridesmaids, The Warmth) directed Jackpot! (previously often known as Grand Dying Lotto) from a script by Rob Yescombe. Simu Liu, Ayden Mayeri, Donald Elise Watkins, Sam Asghari and Murray Hill spherical out the forged for the venture that’s produced by Feig, Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Laura Fischer.
Advertising and marketing for the movie features a giveaway during which one fortunate winner will get Buffalo Wild Wings meals for a decade, with particulars on the promotion out there right here.
Cena has had a busy yr, having already appeared within the 2024 movies Argylle and Ricky Stanicky, together with the brand new season of The Bear. Awkwafina co-starred in final yr’s horror comedy Renfield and has performed voice work in such latest options as The Little Mermaid, Kung Fu Panda 4 and If.
Throughout a dialog final yr with The Hollywood Reporter concerning the state of comedy films, Feig inspired studios to proceed taking possibilities with edgier choices.
“For me, an R-rated comedy is the best artwork type of all as a result of it may be sincere,” Feig stated on the time. “All people talks the best way that folks discuss in actual life. That’s the issue with PG-13 or PG films: you’ve received a nasty man and he doesn’t swear. It’s like, ‘Is that this actual?’”