How to Rob a Bank opens exclusively in theatres on Friday 13 November, and the How to Rob a Bank promotion this week is doing two things at once: releasing new film clips and letting players try the heist themselves in Fortnite Creative. Amazon MGM Studios released two new clips on 2 November, according to BroadwayWorld, ahead of the film’s theatrical release.
A crew that broadcasts its own crimes
Directed by David Leitch from a screenplay by Mark Biancubi, How to Rob a Bank stars Nicholas Hoult as Ryan, Zoë Kravitz as Reagan Gardner, Anna Sawai, Rhenzy Feliz, Pete Davidson as Vince and John C. Reilly as Agent West, with Christian Slater as Walton and Tati Gabrielle as Skyler, according to Wikipedia and BroadwayWorld credits. The premise, as Amazon MGM describes it, follows a crew of social media-savvy bank robbers who broadcast their heists and build a growing online audience — until a veteran FBI agent and a software engineer close in. Leitch, whose directing credits include Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train and The Fall Guy, brings his action-comedy timing to a story where fame is part of the crime, not just a consequence of it. The film is rated R for language, some violence and brief drug use, according to BroadwayWorld, and runs 122 minutes, according to Fiction Horizon. It was originally scheduled for 4 September before moving to November, and was shot in Pittsburgh starting in June 2025.
Fortnite, an ATM stunt, and advance screenings
Amazon MGM has also launched a custom heist mode in Fortnite Creative, running from 30 October through 16 November, according to Inven Global. Hoult and Feliz appear as non-playable characters players can talk to, and the mode overlaps the film’s opening weekend by a few days. A separate Los Angeles promotion featured a mystery ATM giving away free cash, according to Fiction Horizon — a fitting stunt for a film about criminals who become online celebrities, without anyone breaking the law. Advance screenings are scheduled for Monday 9 November in Vancouver and Toronto, according to local Guardian contests, four days before the wide release. For a mid-November action comedy, the strategy is clear: clips to show the ensemble’s chemistry, a game mode to reach younger audiences where they already play, and a stunt to make the premise tangible. Whether audiences buy tickets for the heist itself, rather than just playing it, will be answered on 13 November.
