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Stars: Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Laurence Fishburne, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Adrian Martinez, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Danny Sapani, Barbara Probst, Marc Rismann, Joseph Millson | Written by Ken Nolan, Gary Spinelli, Robert Littell | Directed by James Hawes

Rami Malek stars as a tech genius CIA agent gone rogue in The Amateur, a ridiculous, but nonetheless entertaining thriller that could easily have been titled Revenge of the Nerd. As such, it has its fair share of good moments, but it’s also not without its flaws.

Malek plays Charlie Heller, a vaguely on-the-spectrum CIA surveillance expert, whose life is brutally upended when his beloved wife Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan) is taken hostage and murdered by terrorists while on a business trip in London. When his CIA bosses (Holt McCallany and Danny Sapani) refuse to go after the people responsible, a vengeful Charlie blackmails them into giving him special ops training...

The Amateur, starring Rami Malek and Laurence Fishburne, will begin streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ on July 17.

The 20th Century Studios spy thriller, which was released in theaters in April, stars Malek as Charlie Heller, “a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands, embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe to track down those responsible, his intelligence serving as the ultimate weapon for eluding his pursuers and achieving his revenge.”

In addition to Malek and Fishburne, the film stars Rachel Brosnahan as Heller’s wife along with Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Adrian Martinez, Danny Sapani.

James Hawes directs from a screenplay by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, based on Robert Littell’s novel.

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This July, we are getting a ton of content from the much-anticipated conclusion of The Sandman and return of the beloved series Twisted Metal on streaming, to the release of some of the most anticipated movies of this year, such as James Gunn‘s Superman, and the much-awaited The Fantastic Four: First Steps. This upcoming month will see the release of many great movies, so we thought of compiling a list of all the best movies that are coming straight to streaming.

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The Old Guard 2 is an upcoming superhero action fantasy film directed by Victoria Mahoney from a screenplay by Greg Rucka. Based on the comic book of the same name by Rucka and Leandro Fernández, the Netflix sequel film continues the story of Andy as she loses her...

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Hulu is ready with an entertainment-packed July this year. While we already know all the brilliant films that will be leaving Hulu in the upcoming month, we will also see the premiere of the highly anticipated upcoming season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the streaming release of Rami Malek‘s spy action thriller film The Amateur. Just like every month, Hulu is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 12 new movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in July 2025.

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Dan Da Dan is a Japanese teen sci-fi fantasy anime series. Based on the Japanese manga series of the same name by Yukinobu Tatsu, the upcoming Season 2 of the anime series will continue...

It has been a while since James Gunn took control of the Dcu, and his soft rebooted version of the respective super-verse seems to be unfolding pretty epically already. For one, his action series Creature Commandos fared perfectly well with fans and critics worldwide, and his upcoming project Lanterns is expected to follow suit.

But wait: Although it is not known yet if this forthcoming television series based on different Green Lantern characters from DC Comics will be good enough or not, Rami Malek’s The Amateur just might help with that, since it has been tamed by none other than the very director who is also involved with the DC show: James Hawes.

The Amateur director has also worked on James Gunn’s Lanterns James Hawes in an interview with The Filmmaker’s Podcast | Credits: @The Filmmaker’s Podcast /YouTube.

Rami Malek and Rachel Brosnahan left no stone unturned...

Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek's spy thriller won over audiences on the big screen. Now fans can watch Malek's latest film, The Amateur, from the comfort of home as it makes its digital debut.

Per Digital Spy, fans can now rent or purchase The Amateur on various major digital platforms, including Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV. The movie, directed by Slow Horses helmer James Hawes, hits the digital world two months after its theatrical release.

Malek -- who played bioterrorist Lyusifer Safin in the James Bond film No Time to Die -- portrays Charles Heller in The Amateur. Charles is a CIA cryptographer whose world comes crashing down when his wife Sarah, played by Superman star Rachel Brosnahan, dies in a terrorist attack. When his CIA colleagues decide against taking action, Charles becomes a vengeance-filled vigilante, using his intelligence to travel the globe and find the perpetrators.

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The Amateur is out of theaters and heading to digital. The 2025 action thriller starring Rami Malek is set to arrive on VOD and digital platforms in the coming days.

Per When To Stream, The Amateur will premiere on VOD and digital platforms on June 10, in just four days. The movie comes two months after the spy thriller opened in theaters, where it has so far grossed just under $96 million worldwide. Malek, who is best known for his leading role as hacker Elliot Alderson in Mr. Robot and as the James Bond villain Lyutsifer Safin in No Time to Die, headlines The Amateur as a deeply introverted CIA decoder who takes matters into his own hands when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack.

Critics weren't exactly hot on The Amateur, with the movie just barely qualifying as "fresh" on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. With 117 reviews counted,...

One of the year’s best action thrillers is all set to land on digital release later this month. Starring James Bond actor and Oscar-winner Rami Malek as the most unexpected action hero in years, The Amateur follows a CIA pencil pusher who transforms himself into a merciless vigilante when his wife is killed.

Directed by James Hawes and written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, The Amateur is based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell and finds Rami Malek leading the way as a mild-mannered CIA cryptographer who gears up and wages a one-man war after his wife is murdered. Alongside Malek, The Amateur boasts an all-star cast that includes Rachel Brosnahan (Superman), Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me by Your Name), Holt McCallany (Mindhunter), Julianne Nicholson (August: Osage County), Adrian Martinez (Focus), Danny Sapani, and Laurence Fishburne.

The Amateur is now reportedly...

While there are some big-name action blockbusters still to come, 2025 has already been a notable year for action films. There have been a lot of long-awaited sequels, including Den of Thieves: Pantera, which came out seven years after the 2018 original. A similar sequel release happened with The Accountant 2, which came out at the end of April, nearly a decade after the first movie's 2016 release date. The most successful action releases of this year have come from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, although Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is climbing the charts.

One of this year's action movie leads was Rami Malek. The star had his biggest breakout role with the USA Network series Mr. Robot, in which he played Elliot and received copious acclaim. After this opened the door to more roles, Malek became a true movie star, later winning an Academy Award for playing Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.

Rami Malek’s new spy thriller, The Amateur, is out in theaters everywhere this weekend, and it promises to be a new brand of espionage movie that audiences haven’t seen before. Oscar-winning composer Volker Bertelmann produced the music for the film, and Collider is thrilled to partner with 20th Century Studios to exclusively announce that the original motion picture soundtrack for The Amateur is officially out now. Bertelmann is best known for his work on All Quiet on the Western Front, the 2023 war epic that won four Oscars, including one to Bertelmann for Best Original Score. Bertelmann is also famous for working on Conclave, which was helmed by All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger. Bertelmann’s score was nominated for Conclave, but the award ultimately went to Daniel Blumberg for The Brutalist.

The Amateur tells the story of Heller, a CIA analyst who demands to learn...

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The Amateur is a vigilante action spy thriller film directed by James Hawes from a screenplay co-written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli. Based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell, the 2025 film follows Charlie Heller, a brilliant CIA cryptographer whose wife was killed during a terrorist attack in London. After discovering that, he blackmails his superiors into giving him training to kill the people who killed his wife and use his expertise in doing so. The Amateur stars Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitriona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Laurence Fishburne. So, if you loved the thrilling drama, intense revenge story, and compelling characters in The Amateur, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Law Abiding Citizen is a vigilante action thriller film...

For two decades, James Hawes has quietly been one of the industry’s most accomplished television directors. He’s always exhibited a knack for genre storytelling, but season one of the Gary Oldman-led Slow Horses reaffirmed how he can effectively add an unexpected wrinkle to a well-trodden genre like the spy thriller. That prowess now extends to his second feature film, and first major studio film, The Amateur, starring Oscar winner Rami Malek.

The British filmmaker presents the elegant look and feel of a Jason Bourne or Jack Ryan movie, only he’s chronicling an underestimated CIA analyst character in Charlie Heller (Malek) who has no choice but go out into the field himself. Adapted by screenwriters Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, Hawes’ reimagining of Robert Littell’s 1981 novel tracks Charlie’s defiant globe-trotting pursuit of the terrorists who killed his wife, Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan).

The updated take has...

Stars: Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Laurence Fishburne, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Adrian Martinez, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Danny Sapani, Barbara Probst, Marc Rismann, Joseph Millson | Written by Ken Nolan, Gary Spinelli, Robert Littell | Directed by James Hawes

Rami Malek stars as a tech genius CIA agent gone rogue in The Amateur, a ridiculous, but nonetheless entertaining thriller that could easily have been titled Revenge of the Nerd. As such, it has its fair share of good moments, but it’s also not without its flaws.

Malek plays Charlie Heller, a vaguely on the spectrum CIA surveillance expert, whose life is brutally upended when his beloved wife Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan) is taken hostage and murdered by terrorists while on a business trip in London. When his CIA bosses (Holt McCallany and Danny Sapani) refuse to go after the people responsible, a vengeful Charlie blackmails them into giving him special...

Chicago – “The Amateur” is a movie for grownups that never manages to stand out. It’s an ordinary, globe- trotting revenge thriller without much of any pizazz, like a Netflix-type movie perfect for folding laundry by, that somehow managed to get into theaters. Rami Malek in the title role is interesting … the story is not.

Malik stars is a low level CIA analyst named Charlie. a whiz with computers who can decode complicated computer systems in seemingly the blink of an eye, but isn’t much for field work or human interaction – outside his connection with his wife Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan). This all changes when she is killed during a hostage situation in London. In about the time it takes to order a donut, Malik has deciphered the identity of his wife’s killers and presented his treasure trove of digital evidence to his direct superiors, only to find them slow walking the investigation.

"Every child deserves a home." The first trailer has debuted for an emotional documentary film titled The Davion Effect, made by the filmmakers Ken Nolan & Gb Young. The fascinating new doc just premiered this week at the 2025 Sarasota Film Festival in Florida - and it's playing again this weekend if you're around and want to catch it. The life of a young child trapped in foster care in Florida takes an unexpected turn when he makes a very public plea for a forever home... This is the story of a boy named Davion. Born in a prison hospital and given up to the foster care system at birth, the very lovable Davion tells his story of moving from one foster home to another, and the significant people he met along the way. When, at age 13, his plea to a church congregation for anyone to take him as their own, to...

Charlie Heller, the bereaved rookie vigilante Rami Malek plays in The Amateur, is all brains and no brawn. That sets him apart from his colleagues at the CIA, where he works as a cryptographer, running numbers while they run down suspects. It also distinguishes him, of course, from the Jason Bournes and James Bonds of the world — the perfect physical specimens that usually headline globe-hopping espionage claptrap of this sort. The Amateur takes off from a hooky hypothetical: What if the most intelligent man in central intelligence had to leave...

If someone like the Joker is going to flinch… you know it’s serious. Rami Malek didn’t just channel chaos in The Amateur; he practically borrowed a page from Heath Ledger’s Dark Knight playbook and lit it on fire.

There’s one intense scene where Malek’s icy stare and quiet menace scream “Gotham’s most wanted,” and well, it feels like Joker in a tailored suit.

Rami Malek in The Amateur | Credits: 20th Century Studios

It’s the kind of moment that makes you lean in, hold your breath, and mutter, “Did he just Ledger that?” Yeah. He did. And it was glorious.

Rami Malek flinches like the Joker, and finally calls the shots in The Amateur Rami Malek in The Amateur | Credit: 20th Century Fox

Rami Malek isn’t just acting in The Amateur, he’s producing it. And in one scene, he channels The Dark Knight...

"I want to face my wife's killers. Look them in the eyes..." And then what? Slap them? Walk away? Why is revenge becoming such a boring concept in storytelling nowadays. Has revenge lost its edge? Ever since The Revenant, the last great revenge film, nothing else has been able to pack a punch when it comes to revenge stories on screen. The latest movie to offer up another revenge story is The Amateur, directed by James Hawes, from a screenplay written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinell. This one stars Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek as a nerdy CIA analyst who usually works in the basement on encryption & software programs until his wife is killed in a terrorist incident (in London). His anger drives him to ask for his employer's help in training & arming him so he can go get back at the guys who killed her. But he's not that...

[Editor’s note: This list was originally published in June 2017. It has since been updated with new entries.]

Ron Perlman would have us believe that war never changes, but the movies about it certainly have. The last 20 years have brought no shortage of films about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan (for obvious reasons), but the best war movies of the 21st century show that World War II continues to fascinate filmmakers most of all.

While those conflicts have dominated the genre lately, everything from the Civil War to the Battle of Red Cliffs has found powerful expression onscreen. Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” tells us that “war is a drug,” and the films below suggest that movies about war are just as addictive — maybe even more so. We hope this list provides your fix.

With contributions from Anne Thompson and Michael Nordine.

27. “1917” (2019)

Drawing inspiration from his own grandfather’s war stories, Sam Mendes made a war film that’s as nakedly sentimental and admiring toward...

Oscar winner Rami Malek is now a full-fledged producer of The Amateur, something he attributes to the cutting room floor of Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master.

Malek had toiled away on a significant monologue only to be greeted with its absence upon finally seeing PTA’s 2012 drama. However, the disappointment incepted the idea of becoming a producer someday so that he could have a voice in the making of such decisions. Since then, he’s accumulated an Emmy via Mr. Robot, an Oscar by way of Bohemian Rhapsody, a notable role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and the honor of serving as the villain in the Broccoli family’s final James Bond film, No Time to Die.

The aforementioned accomplishments meant that Malek had attained enough cachet to pursue his dream of producing a film, and that became James Hawes’ The Amateur. The Ken Nolan- and Gary Spinelli...

Academy Award-winning actor Rami Malek had his breakout role in the critically acclaimed series Mr. Robot, for which he received several accolades. As he's set to star in a different spy action film that involves cybersecurity and hacking, the actor also looked back at his role.

Speaking to Cbr's Grae Drake, while promoting his upcoming film, The Amateur, where he plays Charles Heller, a CIA cryptographer and vigilante, Malek addressed the possibility of a Mr. Robot reunion. "I don't think it'd be very different," he said of what the project would look like. "I just saw [series creator Sam Esmail] in London a week and a half ago. We had a typical British Sunday roast together. We're brothers. We will always be brothers and Christian [Slater] is here in New York on Broadway, so go check that out. We all keep up."

The actor also talked about his hacking and computer skills.

Rami Malek stars in the new spy thriller filmThe Amateur, coming to theaters on April 11. With the film's early reviews, The Amateur has managed to score a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, though it will have a bit higher to climb with added reviews to have a chance at matching the score set by his James Bond movie.

Currently, The Amateur is scored at 69% on Rotten Tomatoes with a much higher audience score of 86%. The critics' score falls short of matching the score set by 2021's No Time to Die, the Bond film featuring Malek as the villain, which has scores of 83% and 88%. Even so, approaching 70% is a respectable score for The Amateur, which many critics had a great time watching.

"The Amateur doesn’t attempt to rewrite the book in terms of vigilante revenge stories, but it avoids the kind of slipshod errors that hobble most espionage fare," Eddie Harrison of film-authority.

The first reviews forThe Amateur, which releases in theaters later this week, have begun to roll out. The Rami Malek-led spy thriller from 20th Century Studios has the award-winning Mr. Robot actor go back to the world of coding and vigilantism, this time in a big-budget action film. Does it live up to expectations? Despite some comparisons to other successful franchises, The Amateur may not be the all-out hit the studio is hoping for, but it could be more than enough for fans of Malek and the genre.

As of this writing, The Amateur has been hovering around a 66-to-70% score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics based on 35 reviews. The overall consensus thus far is leaning towards positive, reflecting the early reactions that surfaced online a week ago. However, it seems some critics are mixed on the by-the-numbers story, which positions Malek as a former CIA coder who is...

The revenge thriller is among the most satisfying staples of cinema: generally, it features a hero with a very particular set of skills physically dominating anyone and everyone who gets in their way, en route to the ultimate catharsis of seeing wrongdoers get their comeuppance. That’s not the case in director James Hawes’ sophomore feature, The Amateur. Based on the novel by Robert Littell, our bad-guy-hunting hero isn’t a highly trained former assassin. He’s not even competent with a gun. Instead, Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is a desk-bound cryptographer, a “nerdy fella who works on computers”, as one character calls him. On paper, it’s an intriguing approach. But the execution is only semi-successful.

The Amateur is at its best in the first act. Once his wife Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan) is murdered and Charlie commits to going after the killers, Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli’s script...

Charlie Heller (Rami Malek), the mad-as-hell secret-agent geek brainiac at the center of “The Amateur,” is a CIA analyst who works five floors underground at Langley, in the Decryption and Analysis department. There, he’s a master of all things coded and virtual, a surveillance hacker par excellence. Out of the office, he and his adoring business-person wife, Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan), reside in a renovated farmhouse and appear to have the perfect life. So when Sarah, on a corporate trip to London, gets taken hostage by a cadre of terrorists and is killed on the spot, it’s as if Charlie’s entire existence had been wiped away. Since the tragedy was an international incident, his bosses at the Agency assure him that the perpetrators will be hunted down. But that’s not enough for Charlie. It won’t sate his rage, his desire for vengeance. Instead, Charlie says, “I want to kill them himself.

Typecasting is a double-edged sword. On one hand, we’ve heard countless stories of idiosyncratic actors lamenting that what made them unique has been diluted by a nonstop series of cookie-cutter roles, giving them little, if any, opportunity to show any range. On the other hand, for some performers, it’s likely that without that typecasting, they may never find consistent work to begin with.

Not to say that Rami Malek should be thankful that the roles he receives seem to be contingent upon him recycling the same awkward veneer for which we all recognize him—the man did, after all, win an Oscar for a vaguely convincing, party-trick imitation of Freddie Mercury. Rather, in the case of “The Amateur,” it would be difficult to come to any conclusion aside from this role having been curated entirely for the actor’s fidgety sensibilities.

In the film, Malek goes full chameleon...

Move over James Bond, Jack Reacher, and Jason Bourne -- there's a new action hero in town and his name is Charlie Heller. Okay, so that's probably not the sexiest or most eye-catching attempt to bolster the ranks of our biggest fictional spies but, in all fairness, that's hardly what "The Amateur" is trying to accomplish anyway. For starters, there's the matter of our unconventional leading man. Rami Malek, talented as he obviously is, isn't exactly anyone's first choice for a CIA agent out on a quest for vengeance against the criminals who murdered his wife in cold blood. For that matter, neither would James Hawes land at the top of most filmmaker wish lists for a story like this, despite building up a solid career as a television director (most recently on "Slow Horses"). But if there's anything this quiet, unassuming, and minimalist thriller is mainly about, it's this: Appearances can be deceiving,...

Spy thrillers never have been out of vogue and generally rely on action stars to drive the usual scenarios in this well-worn genre, but The Amateur is an effective twist on the formula by plucking a rather nondescript CIA analyst and letting him turn the tables on the bad guys using his own smarts and non-physical skills.

It really becomes Jason Bourne for nerds and as such stands right up there with Bourne as one of the more exciting spy thrillers in many years — at least one that is different and emotional with a nice human touch to it. The fun of it all, in addition to the obvious international globetrotting to the likes of London, Paris, Marseilles and Istanbul, is watching Rami Malek’s Charlie Heller pull off the impossible against formidable terrorists in clever ways no one sees coming.

Charlie is a happily married and devoted CIA analyst,...

Logic suggests that rogue CIA assassin Jason Bourne might be much less of a threat if — instead of a shredded government super-soldier with a sniper’s accuracy and no personal attachments — he were a vaguely autistic wife guy who couldn’t hit someone with a bazooka if they were standing right in front of him. James Hawes’ “The Amateur” begs to differ.

An aggressively competent spy thriller that has less use for logic than its lead actor does for his smile, this globe-trotting Robert Littell adaptation would have us believe that no one is more dangerous than a math nerd who refuses to think of himself as a killer, and the film makes a compelling enough case to sustain itself across the entire television season’s worth of plot that it packs into two hours. Rami Malek has made that argument before, of course, and the “Mr. Robot” star’s...

A lot has changed in geopolitics since Charles Jarrott’s 1981 adaptation of Robert Littell’s novel The Amateur. Today, terrorism definitions are significantly muddier than the binaries of good and evil that were readily amplified during the Cold War. While the C.I.A. has always operated behind closed doors and in dark corners, governed by murky morality, it now does so behind the firewall of an ever-expanding surveillance state.

James Hawes’s adaptation of Littell’s novel, written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, is, like its predecessor, concerned with the inherently questionable ethics of an institution that has never, and will never, operate in daylight. “Nice office,” C.I.A. Director Moore (Holt McCallany) remarks to data analyst Charles Heller (Rami Malek) in the film, to which Heller cheekily responds that it is—if you don’t mind never having sunlight.

The Amateur is a relaxed and pleasurable throwback to...

The final season of Outlander just got a colossal update from one of its leading stars. Outlander follows Claire Beauchamp Randall (Caitríona Balfe), a WWII nurse who goes back in time to Scotland in 1743. She meets the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) and falls for him while also landing in the middle of an epic rebellion. Starz confirmed more than two years ago that Outlander would end with Season 8, and the final season even wrapped filming back in September 2024, but it’s still lacking an official premiere date. Caitríona Balfe recently sat down for a chat with Collider’s Steve Weintraub to talk about her upcoming action movie, The Amateur, and she teased an emotional season finale:

“Wrapping Outlander was very emotional. Everybody came to set, which was just very weird because they gave Sam [Heughan] and I a seven-page scene that was just full of dialogue to finish on,...

The espionage drama, The Amateur had its world premiere in New York on April 3rd at Jazz at Lincoln Center and it was a spectacular event. The incredible cast including Rami Malek, Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Holt McCallany, and Adrian Martinez joined director James Hawes, screenwriters Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, producers Hutch Parker and Dan Wilson and executive producer JJ Hook at the screening of the all-new spy thriller, which opens exclusively in India on April 10, 2025.

New York, New York – April 02: (L-r) Rami Malek and Laurence Fishburne attend the World Premiere of The Amateur at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 02, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Disney)

At the event Rami Malek talked about the film.

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Laurence Fishburne also gave insight into the story of The Amateur.

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This April, we are getting a ton of entertainment on various platforms, including streaming services, television networks, and, last but not least, theatres. This upcoming month, we will finally see the release of the much-anticipated sequel to the 2016 film The Accountant and Ryan Coogler‘s new period supernatural horror film Sinners. So, we are here to sort out all of the brilliant upcoming movies that you might not want to miss seeing in theatres.

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A Minecraft Movie is a fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Jared Hess from a screenplay co-written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Widener, Gavin James, and Chris Galletta. Based on the popular sandbox game Minecraft developed by Mojang Studios, the 2025 film follows a group of misfits as they are pulled into the Overworld,...

Former James Bond star and Academy Award winner Rami Malek becomes the unlikeliest of action heroes in this month’s thriller, The Amateur. And the first reactions to the revenge spy movie have now emerged. While only a handful of early reviews are available currently, they tease an intriguing and unique action outing that could result in one of the best examples of the genre in years.

Directed by James Hawes and written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, The Amateur is based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell and finds Rami Malek leading the way as a mild-mannered CIA cryptographer who goes vigilante and wages a one-man war after his wife is murdered. Alongside Malek, The Amateur boasts an all-star cast that includes Rachel Brosnahan (Superman), Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me by Your Name), Holt McCallany (Mindhunter), Julianne Nicholson (August: Osage County), Adrian Martinez (Focus), Danny Sapani,...

A new spot and poster for The Amateur from 20th Century Studios starring Oscar® winner Rami Malek and Academy Award® nominee Laurence Fishburne, are now available. The all-new espionage thriller opens in theaters nationwide April 11, 2025.

Synopsis: Charlie Heller (Malek) is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA working out of a basement office at headquarters in Langley whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands, embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe to track down those responsible, his intelligence serving as the ultimate weapon for eluding his pursuers and achieving his revenge. The film also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Adrian Martinez, Danny Sapani, and Laurence Fishburne.

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A new spot and posters for The Amateur, from 20th Century Studios and starring Oscar winner Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) and Academy Award nominee Laurence Fishburne (What’s Love Got to Do with It), are now available.

Advance tickets for The Amateur, including early access screenings, are now available for purchase wherever tickets are sold. The new espionage thriller opens in theaters nationwide on April 11, 2025.

On Saturday, April 5, ahead of its official opening on Friday, April 11, audiences will have the opportunity to see the film early by attending The Amateur: Early Access Screenings. The Amateur: Early Access Screenings begin on Saturday, April 5 at 6:00 p.m. local time.

The movie has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) for some strong violence, and language.

In the film, Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA working out of a basement office...

We’re now exactly one month away from the worldwide debut of The Amateur, and 20th Century Studios is celebrating by releasing a new look at the upcoming star-studded spy thriller. The new behind-the-scenes featurette shows stars Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, and Laurence Fishburne all discussing the movie, which Malek hails as a “more sophisticated” action thriller than fans are accustomed to. The Amateur, which also stars Jon Bernthal, Julianne Nicholson, and Holt McCallany, follows a CIA cryptographer who blackmails the agency into training him to go after a group of terrorists who killed his wife. The film is based on the novel by Robert Littell, with Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli adapting the screenplay, and James Hawes directing, who also shares a word in the newly-released featurette.

Black Hawk Down, Ridley Scott's modern war thriller starring Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, and a whole cavalcade of great actors, has found a new streaming home. As of March 1, fans of the war genre have been able to stream the gritty and realistic movie on Netflix. The very same day, another great film by Ridley Scott was added to Netflix's library: Blade Runner: The Final Cut is available as well, giving Netflix users the chance to see the best Blade Runner version there is, and the only one Ridley Scott was in complete control of.

Based on the book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down was written by Ken Nolan. The war movie follows the events that transpired in Somalia during the Battle of Mogadishu when a helicopter carrying American soldiers was shot down in an area dominated by militia members loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid.

Exclusive: Tobin Babst, a veteran film and television literary manager, is leaving Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment (Kpe) after 12 years to launch a new venture. He’ll launch Northstar Entertainment with several long-time clients including Jay Basu, Dave Callaham, Joby Harold, Christina Hodson, Eileen Jones, Darren Lemke, Ken Nolan, Matthew Plouffe, Jessica Sharzer, Jonathan Tropper and Jesse Wigutow.

Babst had been a partner at Kpe for more than 12 years. Prior to that, he started his career at UTA, where he served as an agent in the Motion Picture Literary Department for 12 years.

“Northstar’s objective is to simply focus on what matters most: our clients, their careers, and their stories,” Babst told Deadline. “I am thankful for my time at Kpe and the successful years we’ve shared. I wish Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone, and all my former colleagues the very best.”

For their part, the partners at Kaplan/Perrone wish Babst well in his new venture.

The incredible story told in Black Hawk Down, the 2001 war film directed by Ridley Scott, is getting its own documentary treatment. The documentary series is called Surviving Black Hawk Down, and it's being produced by Netflix and Scott's production company, Rsa.

Per the report by Deadline, Surviving Black Hawk Down is a three-episode documentary series that follows the true events that transpired in 1993 in Somalia. The testimonies by the survivors are the basis of the docu series that will be released on Feb. 10, exclusively on Netflix.

Scott's Black Hawk Down film was written by Ken Nolan, and was inspired by the book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden. It follows the events of the Battle of Mogadishu when 160 U.S. soldiers saw themselves ambushed by hundreds of Somalis during a military operation. Per the film's synopsis:

The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped...

Escape from New York is one of my favorite movies, so I'm glad the remake appears to have finally died in development. The original 1981 John Carpenter movie has one of the all-time great movie hooks; the most dangerous convict in the world, Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), is forced to rescue the kidnapped President from New York, which has been walled off and turned into a hellish prison. Escape from New York is one of Carpenter's best, filled with great sequences and dialogue.

I've always felt that one minor flaw is that the film's modest budget meant it couldn't fully use its setting. Escape From New York's action is relatively small-scale, and it doesn't take audiences to some of the city's most iconic locations, like Central Park or the subway. In theory, a big-budget reboot could really flesh out the concept and make it much larger, but the Escape from New York...

Over the last few years, Oscar winner Rami Malek has developed quite the line in playing socially awkward, variously psychologically traumatised, somewhat eccentric geniuses who sit all across the moral spectrum. Mr. Robot's Elliot Alderson, No Time To Die's villainous Safin, Bohemian Rhapsody's Freddie Mercury... the list goes on. In The Amateur, Slow Horses alum and One Life director James Hawes' upcoming revenge thriller, Malek is CIA decoder Charlie Heller, a man whose life is turned violently upside down when his wife (Rachel Brosnahan) is killed in a terrorist attack. In the tense first trailer for the film, which boasts the likes of Laurence Fishburne, Caitriona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, and Michael Stuhlbarg among its starry ensemble, it very quickly becomes clear that Charlie is set to become a worthy addition to Malek's resumé of unorthodox mavericks. Check it out below:

Move over John Wick, bon voyage Nobody,...

In theaters on April 11, is the upcoming movie The Amateur, starring Oscar® winner Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) and Academy Award® nominee Laurence Fishburne (“What’s Love Got to Do with It”).

Charlie Heller (Malek) is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA working out of a basement office at headquarters in Langley whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands, embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe to track down those responsible, his intelligence serving as the ultimate weapon for eluding his pursuers and achieving his revenge.

The film also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Adrian Martinez, Danny Sapani, and Laurence Fishburne.

The Amateur is directed by James Hawes. The screenplay is by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli...

Rami Malek is leaning into his “Mr. Robot” roots with CIA spy thriller “The Amateur.”

Malek leads the upcoming feature as a decoder for the CIA, who is working out of a basement when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. Cue the revenge action saga.

The official synopsis reads: “Charlie Heller (Malek) is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA working out of a basement office at headquarters in Langley whose life is turned upside down when his wife (Rachel Brosnahan) is killed in a London terrorist attack. When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands, embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe to track down those responsible, his intelligence serving as the ultimate weapon for eluding his pursuers and achieving his revenge.”

Laurence Fishburne, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Adrian Martinez, and...

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Rami Malek in a lead role. Since he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for “Bohemian Rhapsody” in 2018, his biggest roles have been as a Bond villain in “No Time to Die” Denzel Washington’s LAPD partner in crime thriller “The Little Things,” and a supporting role in “Oppenheimer’s” large ensemble. None of these movies were really what you’d call Rami Malek movies. “The Amateur,” which 20th Century released a trailer for on Wednesday, is a Rami Malek movie. The espionage thriller looks to take advantage of Malek’s unique characteristics in a way nothing else quite has since “Mr. Robot.”

Malek stars as an antihero on a revenge mission who uses CIA resources for his own purposes. Here’s the official logline from 20th Century: “Charlie Heller (Malek) is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for...

Oscar winner Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) isn’t a trained killer but he does have other skills that will prove extremely useful in finding his wife’s killers in The Amateur. The first trailer introduces Malek as a CIA decoder who vows revenge after his wife is murdered.

Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne (What’s Love Got to Do with It), Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal and Michael Stuhlbarg also star, along with Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Adrian Martinez, and Danny Sapani.

“Charlie Heller (Malek) is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA working out of a basement office at headquarters in Langley whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack,” reads 20th Century Studios’ synopsis. “When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands, embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe to track down those responsible,...

20th Century Studios is kicking off this chilly Wednesday afternoon with some heat from Rami Malek‘s latest film, The Amateur. The studio debuted a new action-packed trailer and poster for The Amateur, an espionage thriller in which Malek’s character uses his unique set of skills to find the people who killed his wife. He has no experience in the field, but that won’t stop him from launching a manhunt that defies expectations.

James Hawes directs The Amateur from a screenplay by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli based on the novel by Robert Littell. The film opens in theaters on April 11, 2025.

Here’s the official synopsis for The Amateur courtesy of 20th Century Studios:

“Charlie Heller (Malek) is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA working out of a basement office at headquarters in Langley whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack.

James Hawes is returning to the espionage genre with Rami Malek along for the ride in The Amateur. Hawes is a BAFTA-nominated director better known for his work on the small screen in Britain, having directed multiple episodes of Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant's Doctor Who eras as well as multiple episodes of Merlin, Penny Dreadful, Black Mirror and Apple TV+'s Slow Horses. Malek is an Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning star known for everything from his early work in the Night at the Museum franchise to his acclaimed roles in Mr. Robot and Bohemian Rhapsody and No Time to Die.

Based on Robert Littel's novel of the same name, which was previously adapted to film in 1981, Malek leads The Amateur as Charlie Heller, a reserved CIA cryptographer whose world is rocked when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. Initially seeking help from a senior...

20th Century Studios has released the official trailer and poster for The Amateur, a new espionage thriller that will open in theaters on April 11, 2025. The film stars Oscar winner Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) and Academy Award nominee Laurence Fishburne (What’s Love Got to Do with It).

The film has been rated PG-13 by the MPA for some strong violence, and language.

In The Amateur, Charlie Heller (Malek) is a brilliant but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA working out of a basement office at headquarters in Langley whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack.

When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands, embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe to track down those responsible, his intelligence serving as the ultimate weapon for eluding his pursuers and achieving his revenge.

The film stars Rami Malek,...

Rami Malek explains how The Amateur brings his career full circle. The Amateur is an upcoming spy movie that tells the story of a CIA cryptographer who blackmails his group into training him to hunt down a terrorist group that killed his wife in London. The Amateur features a leading cast including Malek, Holt McCallany, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitriona Balfe, Julianne Nicholson, Laurence Fishburne, Takehiro Hira, Adrian Martinez, Joseph Millson, Alice Hewkin, and Marc Rissmann. It is directed by James Hawes with a screenplay co-written by Evan Katz, Ken Nolan, and Gary Spinelli.

In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Malek explains the arc of his career. He begins by explaining the origins of his career doing "Marine boot camp" for The Pacific. Between shows like this and Mr. Robot, he has been "taught lessons that [he] never would have been privy to otherwise." He feels that The Amateur is "an evolution...