Tremendous audience support has propelled Russell Crowe‘s would-be Oscar contender to success on home video, despite a lukewarm theatrical run some months ago. This tends to happen with movies that score high ratings from viewers, as has been observed with several movies directed by Guy Ritchie and featuring action stars such as Jason Statham and Gerard Butler. There’s a bit of an audience overlap with these projects anyway; they’re targeted at older males who don’t rush out to theaters but prefer to wait for such content to hit the PVOD market. This is the primary reason for the continued success of Ritchie’s recent films Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – both movies underperformed significantly in their theatrical runs.
However, Crowe’s movie did better than them both. It grossed around $45 million worldwide against a reported budget of approximately $10 million. The film was given a solid marketing push during awards season, with a particular focus on the central performances, although Michael Shannon‘s supporting performance was also included in awards campaigning. The movie featured numerous veterans in its cast, including John Slattery and Richard E. Grant. They were joined by the newcomer Leo Woodall, who broke out with a supporting role in the second season of HBO’s The White Lotus and as the co-lead of Netflix’s acclaimed romantic-drama series One Day. He will soon be seen opposite Rachel Weisz in the streamer’s upcoming series Vladimir.
Here’s the Fan-Favorite Russell Crowe Movie Doing Phenomenally on Digital
The movie was headlined by Crowe and his fellow Oscar-winner Rami Malek. We’re talking, of course, about the World War II drama Nuremberg. It featured Crowe as the Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring and Malek as an American psychiatrist sent to get under his skin. Written and directed by James Vanderbilt, Nuremberg was released theatrically in November following a September premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. It earned mostly positive reviews, and now holds a 72% critics’ score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The film’s excellent 95% audience score, however, is one of the key reasons for its success on home video. According to FlixPatrol, Nuremberg has spent over 60 days on the domestic Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play charts. You can watch the film at home. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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November 7, 2025
- Runtime
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148 minutes
- Director
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James Vanderbilt
- Writers
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James Vanderbilt, Jack El-Hai
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István Major, Richard Saperstein, William Sherak, Bradley J. Fischer, Paul Neinstein