2026 has been a quiet year on screen for Tom Hardy so far, but that’s mostly because he’s been hard at work filming the second season of his hit crime thriller, MobLand. Guy Ritchie directs episodes of the Paramount+ series, which also stars Pierce Brosnan, and now that filming on Season 2 has wrapped, fans are waiting with bated breath to learn about a potential release window. Other than MobLand, Hardy’s upcoming slate of projects isn’t as booked as one might expect, but it’s likely because he’s been so busy over the last few years. Since the start of 2024, Hardy has also appeared in other projects, including The Bikeriders (co-starring Austin Butler) and Havoc (co-starring Jessica Mei Li), both of which have become popular films on streaming platforms since their initial debuts.
When you’ve been in movies and TV shows as long as Tom Hardy, it’s only natural that there are going to be some misses mixed in with the hits. One of his most interesting films came in 2011 with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the Cold War-era espionage thriller co-starring Gary Oldman, which grossed $80 million at the box office on a $20 million budget. The duo reunited four years later for another thriller, Child 44, which bombed at the box office, grossing only $12 million against a reported $50 million production budget. The film also earned poor scores of 30% from critics and 44% from audiences on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. Now more than 10 years removed from the underwhelming theatrical premiere of Child 44, the film will seek redemption streaming for free on Pluto TV, where it’s now available to watch as of early April.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
What Is ‘Child 44’ About?
The official synopsis for Child 44, starring Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman, reads as follows:
“A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.”
In addition to Hardy and Oldman, Child 44 also stars Noomi Rapace (Constellation) and Joel Kinnaman (RoboCop). The film is based on the novel of the same name by Tom Rob Smith, with Richard Price writing the screenplay and Daniel Espinosa directing. Child 44 features DNA from other films, such as Zodiac and Snowpiercer, making it perfect for fans of the serial-killer chase set in an eerie society.
Check out Child 44 on Pluto TV and stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates and coverage of Hardy’s future projects.
