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\n Russell Crowe in The WeightImage via Vertical Entertainment<\/p>\n
\n Russell Crowe in The WeightImage via Vertical Entertainment<\/p>\n
2026 has been a relatively quiet year for Russell Crowe<\/a>, but his new movie coming out this week could change how it\u2019s remembered in the wider scope of his career. Crowe is fresh off a successful year in 2025 when he starred in Nuremberg<\/a>, the WWII legal thriller that grossed nearly $75 million at the box office before also going on to become one of the most-watched movies of the year on Netflix. Crowe began the year by starring in Beast<\/a>, the MMA thriller that struggled at the box office before beginning a moderately successful run on Starz. Crowe also starred in a new action movie, The Get Out, which is now available to watch on Paramount+, and the film has already had one run into the global top 10.<\/p>\n Russell Crowe is now more than 20 years removed from his last Oscar nomination, but that isn\u2019t stopping him from seeking out new hits across various genres. Crowe\u2019s next film arrives this Friday when he teams up with Ethan Hawke<\/a> for The Weight<\/a>, which also stars Julia Jones<\/a> and Austin Amelio<\/a>. As if the hype couldn\u2019t get any higher for the Russell Crowe and Ethan Hawke team-up, the movie already holds a 92% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, making it one of the highest-rated movies of the entire year. The Weight is only expected to debut in select theaters this weekend starting September 18, but don\u2019t be surprised if it puts up solid box office numbers \u2014 Crowe may not be the draw he once was, but the pairing with Ethan Hawke and strong reviews will be enough for some fans to take a trip to the theater.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tCollider Exclusive \u00b7 Action Franchise Quiz \t\t\t\tFour 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.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc15Wick\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc1Fast\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \ud83e\udde8Mission\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83c\udf84Die Hard<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tFIND YOUR FRANCHISE \u2192\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n 01<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tHow does a room know you’ve walked into it? \n\t\t\t\tASomeone recognises me, and the temperature in the room drops without a single word being said. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 02<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tIt turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? \n\t\t\t\tAEconomical and devastating. Trained technique, no wasted motion, finished before most people notice it started. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 03<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tWho is standing beside you when it starts? \n\t\t\t\tANobody. I have contacts, favours and people who owe me, but when it begins I work alone. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 04<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tIt has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? \n\t\t\t\tAFocus, commitment and sheer will. Grief is fuel if you point it in the right direction. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 05<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tThere’s a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? \n\t\t\t\tAA black muscle car I am unreasonably attached to, and I will dismantle an entire empire over it. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 06<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tHow do you feel about the people giving the orders? \n\t\t\t\tAThere are rules and I respect them absolutely, right up until somebody breaks one against me. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 07<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tUnderneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? \n\t\t\t\tASomething was taken from me that can’t be replaced, and I’ve been settling that account ever since. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 08<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tWhen the credits roll, what do people say about you? \n\t\t\t\tAThat I was a myth people warned each other about in whispers, and that they were right to. REVEAL MY FRANCHISE \u2192<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tCasting Has Been Completed Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you \t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Wick \u00b7 Chapters 1\u20134 \u00b7 2014\u20132023\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Wick<\/p>\n You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t \t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who \t\t\t\t\t\tThe Fast and the Furious \u00b7 Fast X \u00b7 2001\u20132023\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tFast & Furious<\/p>\n You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about: \t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject, \t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tMission: Impossible \u00b7 The Final Reckoning \u00b7 1996\u20132025\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tMission: Impossible<\/p>\n You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself \t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the \t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an \t\t\t\t\t\tDie Hard \u00b7 A Good Day to Die Hard \u00b7 1988\u20132013\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tDie Hard<\/p>\n You are not the most trained person in the building, the best \t\t\t\t\t\t\tDie Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned, \n\t\t\t\t\u21bb RETAKE THE QUIZ\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n What Is \u2018The Weight\u2019 About?<\/p>\n The official synopsis for The Weight, which was directed by Padraic McKinley, reads as follows: \u201cIn Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp. Warden Clancy tempts him with early release if he smuggles gold through deadly wilderness, but betrayal festers within the crew, and Murphy questions how far he’ll go to see his child again.\u201d Not only does The Weight hold a strong 92% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, but this comes from 40 reviews, so it\u2019s not a small sample size. The Weight has officially become a must-watch<\/a> for Crowe fans or just fans of good movies.<\/p>\n Check out The Weight in theaters this weekend and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Russell Crowe\u2019s future projects.<\/p>\n Release Date<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeptember 18, 2026<\/p>\n Runtime<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t115 minutes<\/p>\n Director<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPadraic McKinley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell Crowe in The WeightImage via Vertical Entertainment 2026 has been a relatively quiet year for Russell Crowe,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-603346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t\t\t\tWhat Action Series Would You Thrive In?
\n\t\t\t\tWick \u00b7 Fast \u00b7 Mission \u00b7 Die Hard<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tEvery action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBLoudly and warmly. I arrive with my people, and we’re already laughing about something.
\n\t\t\t\tCI’m the one who told everybody where to stand. I walked this room twice before anyone else arrived.
\n\t\t\t\tDBy accident. I wasn’t supposed to be here, and now I’m the only one who can do anything about it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tChoreography is character. Yours says something about you.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBLoud, heavy and weirdly joyful. I’m not elegant, I hit like a truck, and I always have backup.
\n\t\t\t\tCTo plan, until the plan breaks. Then I improvise at full sprint and refuse to stop moving.
\n\t\t\t\tDBadly, honestly, and with a lot of swearing. I take more damage than I deal and I still don’t go down.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tSome franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBEveryone. My people are the entire point, and I’d trade the whole mission for any one of them.
\n\t\t\t\tCA small hand-picked team I trust completely, and I’d still take the worst part of the job myself.
\n\t\t\t\tDA voice on the other end of a radio and a building full of people who don’t know I exist.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tAct two exists to find out what you’re actually made of.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBThe people counting on me. I don’t appear to have a limit when it’s family on the line.
\n\t\t\t\tCRefusing to accept the odds. Somebody has to do the impossible part, and it’s going to be me.
\n\t\t\t\tDSpite, mostly. And a growing sense that these people picked the wrong building.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tNo action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBSomething impossibly modified, at impossible speed, off an impossible ramp. Physics is a suggestion.
\n\t\t\t\tCA motorbike at full throttle through a city I memorised last night. And then off a cliff.
\n\t\t\t\tDA borrowed car, badly, while somebody in the passenger seat politely asks me to slow down.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tThere is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBI don’t take orders. I take care of people, and everything else tends to sort itself out.
\n\t\t\t\tCI serve the mission, not the memo. If my people are in danger, the orders come second.
\n\t\t\t\tDThey’re in a van outside telling me what I’m doing wrong while I’m the one bleeding on broken glass.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tThe stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBBelonging. I built a family out of people who had nowhere else, and I’ll defend it with everything.
\n\t\t\t\tCThe conviction that if I stop, people die. I don’t know how to hand that to anyone else.
\n\t\t\t\tDI just wanted to get through the holidays with my family. Everything after that was self-defence.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tEvery franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBThat I never left anyone behind, the door was always open, and there was always a place at the table.
\n\t\t\t\tCThat I did the impossible part myself, every single time, and never asked anyone to risk it for me.
\n\t\t\t\tDThat I was just a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time, who turned out to be very hard to kill.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tYour Franchise Is\u2026<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\thandle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
\n\t\t\t\t\tthe trilogy, and probably headline it.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tescalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tso careful never to be the reason you start.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thonours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tagainst him.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthen completely immovable past it.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFocus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand turning it into technique rather than noise.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPeople wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twork.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tyou’d drive through a building for any one of them.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbecause loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdefend it past the point of reason.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tan absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tanyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto ask somebody else to carry the risk.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tadministrative error.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSome people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tequipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tend, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbleeding, and extremely funny about it.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand then it makes you unstoppable.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.<\/p>\n![\"the-weight-poster.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789659014_331_the-weight-poster.jpg\"\/)
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