THE BET IS SET FOR A JULY 26 RELEASE - TRAILER AVAILABLE - WORLD PREMIERE JULY 20 AT LA LIVE

  LOS ANGELES, CA - 07/06/2016 (PRESS RELEASE JET)

The release and premiere dates have been set for the new raunchy comedy, THE BET, and the first first teaser trailer is now available to view online:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QXBkUpGI0Q

The Bet tells the story of Denton Baker (Alex Klein - Guardians of the Galaxy 2, NBC's Community), a loser in life and love who gets into a high stakes bet where he has one summer to find and hook up with every girl he had a crush on growing up from 1st grade to 12th grade. With the help of his well meaning but overzealous best friends, (Yassir Lester - HBO’s Girls, Key and Peele), (Jeremiah Watkins - Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, Jimmy Kimmel) and (Brian Allen - Netflix’s Buddy Thunderstruck, Justified), Denton has the added complication of falling in love with his 2nd grade crush (Amanda Clayton - Tyler Perry’s If Loving You Is Wrong, Martin Scorsese' s Bleed For This).

The Bet stars wrestling legends, “Diamond” Dallas Page as Mr. Baker, an eccentric inventor and the father of Denton, and Jake “The Snake” Roberts as Mr. Lucas, a successful businessman whose company is up for grabs as part of the bet.

The Bet also features, in his final on screen appearance, WWE Hall of Famer, the late “Rowdy” Roddy Piper as Denton’s concerned neighbor, Mr. Jablonski, as well as a cameo appearance from ECW's Tommy Dreamer as a confused softball umpire.

In addition to Page, Roberts, Piper and Dreamer, The Bet features appearances from a host of faces in the comedy, music and modeling worlds including Hip Hop icon, Chuck D (Public Enemy), comedians like Gerry Bednob (The 40 Year Old Virgin), Dave England (Jackass), Dian Bachar (BASEketball, South Park), models and social media stars like Amanda Cerny, Nikki Leigh, Ali Rose and many more!

The Bet will have its world premiere at Regal Cinema at LA LIVE! on Wednesday, July 20 and stars of the wrestling, comedy, music, sports and modeling worlds are scheduled to appear.

The Bet is a Screen Media Films release scheduled for a July 26th, 2016 release on all Video On Demand cable outlets, iTunes, Amazon Prime, Fandango Now, Playstation, Xbox and more. For more information visit The Bet on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and at www.TheBetMovie2016.com

To schedule interviews or appearances with any of the cast members or filmmakers or to attend the red carpet premiere in Los Angeles on July 20th please contact: