Russell Crowe wearing shades in The Get OutImage via Vertical
It’s gearing up to be a great September for Russell Crowe, who will soon be seen in the hotly anticipated Netflix movie Unabomber. Also starring Jacob Tremblay, Shailene Woodley, and Annabelle Wallis, the movie will be released on September 25 in the United States. Crowe, who plays the psychologist who conducted studies on the Unabomber, got a head start with a new hit film taking Paramount+ by storm. The movie in question received a token theatrical release earlier this year, and was directed by Derrick Borte, who also directed Crowe in the action-thriller Unhinged. The Oscar-winning star promoted the new film’s theatrical release by posting a tweet urging American audiences to “just look for the movie that I’m in.”
In recent years, Crowe has found the bulk of his success at home. The two most high-profile theatrical releases that he has been a part of — Thor: Love and Thunder and Kraven the Hunter — featured him in either an extended cameo or a supporting role. However, Crowe has witnessed several smaller-scale genre movies — Nuremberg, The Pope’s Exorcist, and Land of Bad — draw huge audiences on streaming and digital. With his 2026 crime thriller now having debuted on Paramount+ to instant success, Crowe’s streak appears to be showing no signs of slowing down.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard
Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.
🐕Wick
🏁Fast
🧨Mission
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🎄Die Hard
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How does a room know you’ve walked into it? Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.
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It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.
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Who is standing beside you when it starts? Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.
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It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? Act two exists to find out what you’re actually made of.
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There’s a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.
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How do you feel about the people giving the orders? There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.
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Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.
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When the credits roll, what do people say about you? Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.
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Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…
Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.
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John Wick · Chapters 1–4 · 2014–2023
John Wick
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.
The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him.
You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it.
Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise.
People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.
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The Fast and the Furious · Fast X · 2001–2023
Fast & Furious
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason.
You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.
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Mission: Impossible · The Final Reckoning · 1996–2025
Mission: Impossible
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error.
You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.
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Die Hard · A Good Day to Die Hard · 1988–2013
Die Hard
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable.
You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
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Russell Crowe’s New Movie Defies Mixed Reviews
We’re talking about The Get Out, which also features Luke Evans, Teresa Palmer, Daniel Zovatto, and Aaron Paul. Crowe plays a nightclub owner who gets entagled in a web of crooked cops and cartel bosses in the movie, which received mixed reviews upon release. It now holds a 45% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where critics have described it as both “largely underwhelming” and “reasonably solid.” According to FlixPatrol, The Get Out is the number-one movie domestically on Paramount+, outperforming the likes of Top Gun: Maverick, the new Scary Movie installment, and the post-apocalyptic Western Homestead. In addition to Unabomber, Crowe has a massive project lined up in the form of the Highlander reboot, headlined by Henry Cavill and directed by Chad Stahelski. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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