Director Gore Verbinski was riding high for a while. He got his feature career started with Mouse Hunt and the Brad Pitt / Julia Roberts movie The Mexican, then followed his hit remake of The Ring with a trilogy of Pirates of the Caribbean movies (and dropping an underrated Nicolas Cage movie into the mix along the way). Things got bumpy the animated movie Rango was followed by The Lone Ranger, one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time. He brought us the psychological thriller A Cure for Wellness in 2017… and nothing since. He’s had a number of projects in the works, but they never moved forward. He was attached to a live-action adaptation of Bioshock for many years before the project was shelved and was also in talks to direct the Gambit movie starring Channing Tatum. One of the last projects Verbinski was said to be working on was an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s The Sandkings for Netflix, but we haven’t heard any updates on the project for a while.

Thankfully, he did finally manage to get one project into production: the mind-bending sci-fi adventure Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. The film reached theatres last month, and JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray was quite impressed by it. You can read his 8/10 review at THIS LINK. Now, it’s time for the movie to receive a digital release – and if you’ve been wondering when that release is going to happen, we have very good news for you!

Cast and Synopsis

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die follows a man who claims to be from the future and takes the patrons of an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage in search of unlikely recruits in a quest to save the world. Sam Rockwell (JoJo Rabbit, Iron Man 2) stars alongside Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen, The White Lotus), Michael Peña (Narcos: Mexico, Jack Ryan), Zazie Beetz (Joker, Deadpool 2), and Juno Temple (Ted Lasso, Venom: The Last Dance). The screenplay written by Matthew Robinson, who co-wrote The Invention of Lying with Ricky Gervais and Love and Monsters with Brian Duffield.

Digital Release

When will Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die get a digital release? Well, the answer is: it already has!

The movie is currently available to watch on Amazon, where it can be purchased for the price of $24.99 or rented for $19.99.

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PLOT: A man from the future (Sam Rockwell) arrives in an L.A. diner saying that he’s here to save the world from A.I., recruiting some willing (and unwilling) participants to join him in what may turn out to be humanity’s last stand.

REVIEW: Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die feels like a movie that’s overdue in more ways than one. For one thing, it marks Verbinski’s first movie in nine years, since A Cure for Wellness. Verbinski was always one of the quirkiest blockbuster directors in the business, who—even when waylaid by too many Pirates of the Caribbean sequels and The Lone Ranger—always hinted at some real brilliance behind the camera (I’d wager the first Pirates is his best overall effort). But it’s also overdue in that it tackles one of the more timeless sci-fi tropes: humanity facing an existential threat due to technology, at a time when that reality seems closer at hand than ever.

The Terminator was the standard for this genre in the eighties and early nineties, while The Matrix picked up the torch, reinventing the premise based on how technology evolved. The first two Terminator movies saw robots as a physical menace that would take us over by creating indestructible super soldiers. The Matrix harnessed the internet, taking the battle into an alternate reality where we are all plugged in. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die feels like the next logical step in the evolution of the genre, introducing a world where, as humans, we willingly give ourselves over to technology as it incrementally takes over our lives piece by piece.

Verbinski’s film is wildly ambitious, with the script by Matthew Robinson also allowing it to play as a scathing critique of humankind slowly giving away reality in favor of entertainment and convenience. It feels like the work of a writer/director pair who are deeply concerned with the way the world is going, and just like The Terminator and The Matrix, it works as a cautionary tale while still blasting us with some major entertainment.

While Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die isn’t quite on the level of either of those films, it comes closer than you’d think, with it being Verbinski’s most satisfying film in over twenty years. He’s helped immeasurably by star Sam Rockwell, whose performance perfectly taps into the heightened, sci-fi-comic vibe of the movie. He’s a wild-eyed traveller from the future trying to rally humankind through a group of strangers he meets in a diner, with this being one of hundreds of attempts he’s made. His goal is to plug a USB key with A.I. safeguards into a computer being used to take the technology to the next level (and operated by a nine-year-old boy), but there’s trouble along the way as our heroes run into all kinds of obstacles.

The film follows a unique template, with the first half almost playing out like an anthology as we get the backstories of the folks helping Rockwell. There’s Michael Peña and Zazie Beetz as a couple of teachers being harassed by students who’ve lost their humanity due to phone addiction. Haley Lu Richardson plays a young woman who’s allergic to technology and Wi-Fi (literally), whose Luddite boyfriend suddenly gets into VR. Most controversially, Juno Temple plays a woman whose son is murdered in a school shooting and replaced by a clone.

Some of the stories are better than others, with the school shooting section outrageous but not entirely successful. Yet they all come together beautifully in the movie’s second, more action-driven half, which shifts the focus to Rockwell. Some of Verbinski’s imagery, while done on a budget, is arresting, and he also benefits from a great score by Geoff Zanelli.

It’s fitting that Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is going the theatrical route rather than streaming, as it would have been too ironic—and perhaps contrary to the movie’s purpose—to have it make its debut on a streaming service. Instead, it’s getting a rollout courtesy of Briarcliffe Entertainment, and it will rely strongly on word of mouth to make an impact. Back in the eighties and nineties, this would have been labelled a “cult film,” and hopefully, the genre audience that will no doubt love it will come out and support it. It’s a wild swing, but it’s also one of the more invigorating and original pieces of sci-fi I’ve seen in quite a long time. It’s nice to have Verbinski back.

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Director Gore Verbinski was riding high for a while. He got his feature career started with Mouse Hunt and the Brad Pitt / Julia Roberts movie The Mexican, then followed his hit remake of The Ring with a trilogy of Pirates of the Caribbean movies (and dropping an underrated Nicolas Cage movie into the mix along the way). Things got bumpy the animated movie Rango was followed by The Lone Ranger, one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time. He brought us the psychological thriller A Cure for Wellness in 2017… and nothing since. He’s had a number of projects in the works, but they never moved forward. He was attached to a live-action adaptation of Bioshock for many years before the project was shelved and was also in talks to direct the Gambit movie starring Channing Tatum. One of the last projects Verbinski was said to be working on was an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s The Sandkings for Netflix, but we haven’t heard any updates on the project for a while.

Thankfully, he did finally manage to get one project into production: the mind-bending sci-fi adventure Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. The film is aiming for a February 13, 2026 theatrical release and promises to be completely unhinged… and if you lost your job to AI, you might even be able to get a free ticket to a showing.

Cast and Synopsis

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die follows a man who claims to be from the future and takes the patrons of an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage in search of unlikely recruits in a quest to save the world. Sam Rockwell (JoJo Rabbit, Iron Man 2) stars alongside Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen, The White Lotus), Michael Peña (Narcos: Mexico, Jack Ryan), Zazie Beetz (Joker, Deadpool 2), and Juno Temple (Ted Lasso, Venom: The Last Dance). The screenplay written by Matthew Robinson, who co-wrote The Invention of Lying with Ricky Gervais and Love and Monsters with Brian Duffield.

Early reactions to the film have been very positive, so I’m looking forward to seeing it. It has been given an R rating for pervasive language, violence, some grisly images and brief sexual content.

Free Ticket

Feverup.com and Briarcliff Entertainment are offering free tickets to Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die for people who have lost their jobs to AI, on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Info: First 1000 signups will get 2 FREE tickets! Stop AI before it takes over another role. Sign up today and share your story on instagram (tag @goodluckhavefundontdie and @briarcliffent). If you are within the first 1000 signups, you will receive your coupon to purchase 2 free tickets within 2 days of the end of the promotional period. The promotional period ends on 23:59 PT, Sunday February 8, 2026. One entry per person. Age requirement: 18+. Legal terms and conditions can be found at the Feverup link.

Have you lost a job to AI, and will you be signing up for free tickets to Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die? Let us know by leaving a comment below. JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray has already seen the film and gave it an 8/10 review you can read HERE.

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Gore Verbinski’s newest film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, is sure to shake up the “January releases” hangover you may have, as the premise is wild and the visuals look even wilder. Add to that the all-in, unhinged performance of Sam Rockwell and you’ve got a stew going! Briarcliff Entertainment has just passed along a new poster for the sci-fi, action, horror comedy just before it hits theaters on February 13. The poster is showcasing the kind of chaos the trailers have been promising and has been able to work in the cast, with Rockwell taking center stage.

Check out the new poster below!

The details behind the madness

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die follows a man who claims to be from the future and takes the patrons of an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage in search of unlikely recruits in a quest to save the world. Sam Rockwell (JoJo Rabbit, Iron Man 2) stars alongside Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen, The White Lotus), Michael Peña (Narcos: Mexico, Jack Ryan), Zazie Beetz (Joker, Deadpool 2), and Juno Temple (Ted Lasso, Venom: The Last Dance). The screenplay written by Matthew Robinson, who co-wrote The Invention of Lying with Ricky Gervais and Love and Monsters with Brian Duffield.

Early reactions to the film have been very positive. Our own Chris Bumbray loved it as he said, “It’s fitting that Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is going the theatrical route rather than streaming, as it would have been too ironic—and perhaps contrary to the movie’s purpose—to have it make its debut on a streaming service. Instead, it’s getting a rollout courtesy of Briarcliffe Entertainment, and it will rely strongly on word of mouth to make an impact. Back in the eighties and nineties, this would have been labelled a “cult film,” and hopefully, the genre audience that will no doubt love it will come out and support it. It’s a wild swing, but it’s also one of the more invigorating and original pieces of sci-fi I’ve seen in quite a long time. It’s nice to have Verbinski back.” Check out his whole review HERE.

It has been given an R rating for pervasive language, violence, some grisly images and brief sexual content.

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Director Gore Verbinski was riding high for a while. He got his feature career started with Mouse Hunt and the Brad Pitt / Julia Roberts movie The Mexican, then followed his hit remake of The Ring with a trilogy of Pirates of the Caribbean movies (and dropping an underrated Nicolas Cage movie into the mix along the way). Things got bumpy the animated movie Rango was followed by The Lone Ranger, one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time. He brought us the psychological thriller A Cure for Wellness in 2017… and nothing since. He’s had a number of projects in the works, but they never moved forward. He was attached to a live-action adaptation of Bioshock for many years before the project was shelved and was also in talks to direct the Gambit movie starring Channing Tatum. One of the last projects Verbinski was said to be working on was an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s The Sandkings for Netflix, but we haven’t heard any updates on the project for a while. Thankfully, he did finally manage to get one project into production: the mind-bending sci-fi adventure Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. The film is aiming for a February 13, 2026 theatrical release and promises to be completely unhinged. Today, a trailer has dropped online to give us a hint of just how crazy the movie is, and you can watch it in the embed above.

Cast and Synopsis

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die follows a man who claims to be from the future and takes the patrons of an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage in search of unlikely recruits in a quest to save the world. Sam Rockwell (JoJo Rabbit, Iron Man 2) stars alongside Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen, The White Lotus), Michael Peña (Narcos: Mexico, Jack Ryan), Zazie Beetz (Joker, Deadpool 2), and Juno Temple (Ted Lasso, Venom: The Last Dance). The screenplay written by Matthew Robinson, who co-wrote The Invention of Lying with Ricky Gervais and Love and Monsters with Brian Duffield.

Early reactions to the film have been very positive, so I’m looking forward to seeing it. It has been given an R rating for pervasive language, violence, some grisly images and brief sexual content.

Are you glad to have a new Gore Verbinski movie to look forward to? Check out the trailer for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, then let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Crime 101 was a hot piece of property that studios got in a bidding war over and Amazon MGM Studios would come out the victor. Here is the official plot, as per Amazon MGM Studios: “Set against the sun-bleached grit of Los Angeles, CRIME 101 weaves the tale of an elusive thief (Chris Hemsworth) whose high-stakes heists unfolding along the iconic 101 freeway have mystified police. When he eyes the score of a lifetime with hopes of this being his final job, his path collides with a disillusioned insurance broker (Halle Berry) who is facing her own crossroads, forcing the two to collaborate. Determined to crack the case, a relentless detective (Mark Ruffalo) closes in on the operation, raising the stakes even higher. As the multimillion-dollar heist approaches, the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur, and all three are forced to confront the cost of their choices–and the realization that there’s no turning back.” In addition to Hemsworth, Ruffalo and Berry, Crime 101’s cast is rounded out by Barry Keoghan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Nolte, Tate Donovan, Monica Barbaro, and Corey Hawkins.

A new list of ratings from the MPA has just dropped and Chris Hemsworth’s Crime 101 would receive an R rating for language throughout, some violence and sexual material/nudity.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

Meanwhile, the new unhinged, but fun-looking Gore Verbinski film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die has also been given its rating from the MPA. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die follows a man who claims to be from the future and takes the patrons of an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage in search of unlikely recruits in a quest to save the world. Sam Rockwell (JoJo Rabbit, Iron Man 2) stars alongside Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen, The White Lotus), Michael Peña (Narcos: Mexico, Jack Ryan), Zazie Beetz (Joker, Deadpool 2), and Juno Temple (Ted Lasso, Venom: The Last Dance). The screenplay written by Matthew Robinson, who co-wrote The Invention of Lying with Ricky Gervais and Love and Monsters with Brian Duffield.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, from Briarcliff Entertainment, has also been given an R rating for pervasive language, violence, some grisly images and brief sexual content.

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