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JOY RIDE Cast Named Comedy Ensemble of Year at CinemaCon

JOY RIDE Cast Named Comedy Ensemble of Year at CinemaCon

The Joy Ride quartet — Sherry Cola, Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu – was named Comedy Ensemble of the Year at CinemaCon on Thursday.

The raunchy B.C.-filmed Asian road trip comedy hits theatres this summer — on July 7th.

Joy Ride follows four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey’s (Ashley Park) business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo (Sherry Cola), her irreverent childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat (Stephanie Hsu), her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), Lolo’s eccentric cousin.

Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

Producer Seth Rogen told CinemaCon that the test screening for Joy Ride “blew the lid off the theatre. You could feel the audience in the room going, ‘thank f*cking God that a group of people attempted to do this again.”

Four Friends. One Trip. No Luck.

Joy Ride (formerly JFC aka Joy F**k Club) filmed in B.C. in the Fall of 2021:

Director: Adele Lim.

We’re fully leaning into a side of Asian-ness the world doesn’t usually get to see… the messy, R-rated, thirsty AF side. — Director Adele Lim.

Cast: Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, Sabrina Wu, Ronny Chieng, Desmond Chiam, Alexander Hodge, Chris Pang.

Writers: Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao.

Producers: Lionsgate’s Meredith Wieck and Chisom Ude; Point Grey Pictures’s Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver and Josh Fagen, Adele Lim, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Teresa Hsiao.

Filming in BC:

Ashley Park set chair on Day One of production in B.C.

Stephen Hsu as a Chinese soap opera diva in Joy Ride, filmed in Vancouver’s Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden:

Joy Ride memorably leaned into its raunchiness with a Hard R makeover of the Fletcher Park playground slide in Maple Ridge..

Joy Ride wrapped filming in Vancouver in November 2021.

In theatres July 7th.