Awkwafina’s new movie is #1 on Prime Video and might expand into a franchise

In Awkwafina's new Prime Video comedy Jackpot, she plays a young woman who wins a newly established lottery in California, the winnings of which come with a hair-raising catch: In order to hang on to the cash prize, the lottery recipient has to survive an onslaught of jackpot hunters trying to track down and kill winner. And, in so doing, those hunters get to keep the prize they steal. In other words, it's sort of The Hunger Games meets Publishers Clearing House.

It's a sort of wacky premise for a movie...