Paul Feig On Hitting The ‘Jackpot!’, ‘Ghostbusters’ Postmortem & ‘A Simple Favor 2’s Possible Theatrical Future – Crew Call Podcast

Paul Feigknows a thing or two about comedy.

Heck, his movies have grossed well over $1.4 billion at the box office.

Then why arent studios making more comedies?

Paul Feig, John Cena and Simu Liu in ‘Jackpot!'

(L-R) Paul Feig, John Cena and Simu Liu in ‘Jackpot!‘Amazon Studios

Especially with the billion-dollar success ofDeadpool & Wolverine?

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While his latest his homage to Jackie Chan physical comedies,Jackpot!

And theres a shot that is a maybe it goes theatrical.

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Feig tells us, I cant speak for Amazon, but we did our first (test screening).

We scored really high.

So, theyre going to see it at the end of this month.

Im literally in the editing room right now, fine tuning, theBridesmaidsfilmmaker tells us.