Russell Crowe on the red carpetImage via Abaca Press/INSTARimages
Few movie stars in Hollywood work as hard as Russell Crowe, who is currently filming his next big blockbuster, Highlander. Highlander is a remake of the 1986 Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery-led film of the same name, but the modern version also stars Dave Bautista and Henry Cavill alongside Crowe. Chad Stahelski, famed for his work directing all four John Wick movies, has also been tapped to direct Highlander with a script from Ryan J. Condal(creator of House of the Dragon). Just a few weeks ago, Crowe shared a new photo of himself on social media, showing him getting back into Gladiator shape to star in the new film, which can safely be considered one of the most exciting new releases that’s in development. Djimon Hounsou and Karen Gillan also have roles in Highlander.
2025 was a somewhat uncharacteristically quiet year for Crowe, at least until November, when he finally brought his long-gestating WWII thriller, Nuremberg, to the big screen. Nuremberg wrapped production years ago, and it took the film quite a while to secure distribution, which it inevitably did thanks to Sony Pictures Classics, which brought the film to theaters around Thanksgiving. Nuremberg grossed over $50 million at the box office before going on to have a successful run on VOD as one of the most popular purchases on platforms such as Prime Video and Apple TV. A little over a month ago, Sony finally unleashed Nuremberg onto Netflix, where the film quietly jumped into the top five most-watched titles on the platform. It’s still a streaming smash hit around the world on both Netflix in America and on VOD.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
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🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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What Is ‘Nuremberg’ About?
Nuremberg follows a WWII psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley (played by Rami Malek), who becomes enamored with understanding the mind of the evil Hermann Göring (played by Russell Crowe), who was one of Hitler’s top generals during the war. The film unfolds as Kelley drives to learn more about Göring, but those close to Kelley begin to wonder if the relationship they’re developing is borderline unhealthy. Nuremberg earned a solid 71% from critics and a strong 95% from audiences on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. The film was written and directed by James Vanderbilt, and while it was thought that it might earn Crowe another Oscar nomination, the Academy ultimately passed on recognizing him.
Check out Nuremberg on Netflix in America and stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates and coverage of Crowe’s future projects.
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Release Date
November 7, 2025
Runtime
148 minutes
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Director
James Vanderbilt
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Writers
James Vanderbilt, Jack El-Hai
Producers
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István Major, Richard Saperstein, William Sherak, Bradley J. Fischer, Paul Neinstein
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