Crime 101 director Bart Layton needed to make the kind of film he felt Hollywood does not launch a lot anymore — no less than not for theaters, anyway. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte, the thriller a couple of jewel thief (Hemsworth) who pulls off a heist on the Los Angeles freeway is being positioned as a giant occasion film for the Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day weekend timeframe.
Layton, who beforehand directed American Animals, informed Deadline he needed Crime 101 to be a throwback to the grownup drama blockbusters he grew up with. Describing it as the kind of film that he “actually remembered greatest as a young person, or within the ’80s and ’90s. Correct, grown-up films, movies that had been considerate, however they had been additionally nice Saturday-night, popcorn films,” he added, “I’m making an attempt to think about what the final variations of these movies had been. Are they primarily on Netflix? I’m unsure. However, don’t you are feeling like a few of these films don’t exist anymore?”
Can ‘Crime 101’ Deliver Grownup Audiences Out to the Films?
Layton’s feedback ring no less than considerably true. In 2010, Ben Affleck’s The City grossed $154 million worldwide; in 2026, Affleck and Matt Damon’s The Rip was launched completely on Netflix. Romance has additionally largely grow to be a streaming style. For each Anybody however You that will get launched in theaters, there are films like The Concept of You and Individuals We Meet on Trip which are despatched straight to streaming.
Regardless that Crime 101 is predicated on a ebook, it does not carry the built-in IP enchantment {that a} comic-book movie, a remake, or perhaps a extra widespread ebook adaptation does. It is relying on its stars as a lot as its premise to promote itself to audiences, very similar to the star autos of the Eighties and ’90s that Layton is asking again to.
Amazon MGM is actually taking a giant swing with Crime 101 by releasing it on Feb. 13, 2026, sooner or later earlier than Valentine’s Day and forward of the Presidents’ Day opening weekend. It is being positioned as counterprogramming to Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, one other ebook adaptation that is pushing its stars (Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi) as a serious promoting level. Opening that very same weekend for household audiences is Sony Footage Animation’s Goat. Audiences will definitely have their fair proportion of titles to select from over the three-day vacation weekend; hopefully, all three of those releases can discover an viewers.
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February 13, 2026
- Runtime
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140 Minutes
- Director
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Bart Layton