If AI shook up your life in a very real way, there’s a new sci-fi movie that wants to at least make your night at the movies free.
Briarcliff Entertainment has rolled out a pretty wild and very on-theme offer tied to Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, and it’s aimed directly at people who’ve lost their jobs due to artificial intelligence.
The studio is giving out free theater tickets to the film for anyone who’s been replaced, sidelined, or straight-up optimized out of work by AI. So, if AI took something from you, this movie should give something back.
Here’s the full letter explaining the offer, and yes, they went all in:
“To those who have lost their job to AI,
On behalf of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, the new film from director Gore Verbinski, Briarcliff Entertainment is offering you free tickets to see the movie in theaters – because we believe you should get something out of the AI “revolution”.
If you or someone you know has been quietly replaced, sidelined, or optimized in the name of progress, tell us your story and receive a pair of tickets, on the house.
“Who better to see a film about AI’s impact than those already experiencing it firsthand?””
Tom Ortenberg, CEO Briarcliff Entertainment
For more information on the free tickets, click here.
The movie is about an AI apocalypse spiraling out of control, and the people feeling that pressure in real life are exactly the audience it’s speaking to.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die looks like a clever, awesomely unhinged sci-fi ride made for genre fans who like their stories funny, chaotic, and just a little uncomfortable.
Sam Rockwell leads the cast as a mysterious man claiming to be from the future, and from everything shown so far, he looks like he’s having an absolute blast. He’s backed up by Michael Peña, Juno Temple, Haley Lu Richardson, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chandhry, and Tom Taylor.
The film is directed by Gore Verbinski, and this marks his first new movie since A Cure for Wellness hit theaters back in 2016. Verbinski’s career jumps all over the place in the best way possible, from The Ring to the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy to Rango. Seeing him return to big, strange sci-fi territory is pretty exciting.
The script comes from Matthew Robinson, who previously wrote Love and Monsters and Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
The story itself leans hard into chaos. A man storms into a diner with a detonator, claiming he’s from the future and that this is the 117th time he’s tried to stop an AI-driven apocalypse.
He has limited time to recruit a group of extremely unqualified strangers to save humanity, while dealing with skeptical adults, brain-rotted teens, social media nightmares, and algorithmic horrors that don’t care about human feelings. Whether the world survives is very much an open question.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is set for an exclusive theatrical release on February 13, 2026.
