Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for The Pickup (2025) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Keke Palmer, Eva Longoria, Jack Kesy, Ismael Cruz Cordova DIRECTOR: Tim Story CINEMATOGRAPHY: Larry Blanford MUSIC: Christopher Lennertz PRODUCTION: The Story Company, Davis Entertainment, Eddie Murphy Productions, Amazon MGM Studios

Box Office Performance

Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for The Pickup (2025). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Production

The film was greenlit by Amazon MGM Studios in March 2023 with Eddie Murphy attached to star. Tim Story is directing and also producing the film, through his The Story Company. John Davis and John Fox also produce for Davis Entertainment. Eddie Murphy and Charisse Hewitt-Webster produce via Eddie Murphy Productions.

In December 2023, Keke Palmer and Pete Davidson joined the cast. In February 2024, Andrew Dice Clay, Eva Longoria, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Jack Kesy and Marshawn Lynch joined the cast.

Principal photography began in Atlanta in April 2024. On April 20, during second unit filming of an action scene, an accident happened in which an armored truck and a car collided, resulting in both vehicles rolling over and leaving several crew members injured. Additional scenes were filmed in Rome, Georgia.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

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CRITICAL RECEPTION

Lovia Gyarkye of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "swerves and jerks to a mildly satisfying conclusion. The film boasts a strong comic cast with Murphy, Davidson and Palmer at the lead. Their chemistry is naturally compelling, which helps us buy into their increasingly ridiculous situation."

Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com gave the film one out of four stars and wrote, "The Pickup is as generic and forgettable as its title suggests: a bland action-comedy that will surely end up being one of the year's worst movies, if only for the egregious way it squanders its talented cast."