Capture Entertainment is launching international sales at Cannes on Kaet Might Die, a dark comedy that has wrapped filming and pairs Anthony Ramos with Awkwafina and Ken Jeong. The film adapts Kaet McAnneny’s cancer memoir Boobs Gone Rogue.
The movie tells the true story of a woman who seems to have it all until a cancer diagnosis upends her life, forcing her to lean on humor and imagination as her marriage starts to crack and her family closes in. Mercedes Bryce Morgan directs from a script by Angela Gulner and Yuri Baranovsky.
The Cannes push comes as capture and CAA handle domestic sales together, giving the project a commercial launch point after production finished. The timing matters because the film is already in the market before audiences have seen a frame, and because its cast brings together names with reach across comedy, music and television.
Morgan, who most recently directed the erotic horror Bone Lake in 2025, said the material was rooted in a real story but shaped as something darkly funny, heightened and wildly surreal. She said she wanted the film to find laughter inside the darkness, and described Awkwafina as handling the tonal balance in a way few actors can.
Awkwafina and Ken Jeong reunite in the film as father and daughter after Crazy Rich Asians, while Ramos adds another familiar face to a cast built around a story with painful material and comic bite. Joel David Moore, speaking about McAnneny’s memoir, said her fearless and hilarious take on the worst moments of her life should resonate widely, and said the finished film exceeds what he imagined, led by what he called a career-defining performance from Awkwafina.
The film’s next test is not whether the premise is unusual. It is whether buyers at Cannes see the same mix of damage, wit and emotion that the team is betting on, and whether that combination travels beyond the page and the festival market.