'The Pickup' Trailer: Eddie Murphy Is Still Too Afraid to Test the Box Office

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F streamed on Netflix in 2024; Candy Cane Lane streamed on Prime Video in 2023, and that same year saw You People on Netflix. Prime Video released Coming 2 America in 2021, while Dolemite Is My Name dropped on Netflix in 2019, and 2016’s low budget indie Mr. Church quietly went straight-to-VOD.

Eddie Murphy hasn’t seriously dared the box-office gods since a cascade of disastrously reviewed flops in the late ’00s and early ’10s — A Thousand Words, Meet Dave, and Imagine That. Excluding the Shrek animated films, Eddie’s last real box-office draw was 2007’s disastrous Norbit.

Maybe that’s precisely how Eddie wants it: Big paychecks, no real risk. He cranks out safe, middling comedies that sit on streaming platforms we already subscribe to. We click play because, hey, it’s there.

Enter the latest: The Pickup. It’s more of the same. Eddie teams with Pete Davidson (who’s never really been tested at the box office, either) in a buddy-comedy caper as armored truck drivers ambushed by a woman (Keke Palmer) with whom Davidson’s character has been sleeping.

It looks fine: the perfect “something to watch while playing Candy Crush” mid‑August Prime Video filler. Here’s the trailer:

Joining Murphy, Davidson, and Palmer are Eva Longoria, Marshawn Lynch, and uh, Andrew Dice Clay. It drops on Prime Video August 6.