Jackass 5: New Movie in Popular Franchise, Starring Johnny Knoxville, in June

‘Jackass 5’ Movie Coming to Theaters in June

JACKASS FOREVER, (aka JACKASS 4), Jason 'Wee Man' Acuna, 2022.  ph: Jennifer McCarthy /© Paramount /Courtesy Everett Collection
©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection

A brand new Jackass movie will be released wide in theaters on June 26 via Paramount.

A bull-induced brain hemorrhage and broken ribs cannot stop Johnny Knoxville.

Knoxville teased in Instagram post that the franchise would be returning to cinemas in the summer, but did not explicitly mention that it is Jackass 5, and not a rerelease of a past project.

The post was jointly uploaded by Knoxville, the official “Jackass” account and Gorilla Flicks, the production company founded by Jeff Tremaine.

The new film comes 4 years after Jackass Forever, in which Knoxville was lit up by an angry bull, Danger Ehren was covered in honey and confronted by a black bear and Steve-O’s genitals were covered in bumblebees.

The fourth installment featured most of the original, aging “Jackass” stunt men and pranksters while welcoming some new talents, like Zach Holmes, Sean “Poopies” McInerney, Jasper Dolphin, Eric Manaka and Rachel Wolfson.

Jackass began as a TV show on MTV before becoming a film franchise that spans decades.

Its audience, once immature teenagers, is now made up of immature middle-aged people — plus a whole lot of new immature teenagers.

Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, and Wee Man are now middle-aged, but they have not slowed down in creating funny if also silly frat-house hazing stunts, and to stage them with a juvenile fervor.

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