Tom Hardy’s Forgotten ‘MobLand’ Precursor Loses Box Office Rank to Chris Hemsworth’s Acclaimed Crime Thriller

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Published Feb 20, 2026, 2:49 PM EST

Rohan Naahar is a Weekend News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once.

He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

The theatrical market has changed so dramatically over the last five years that even a $15 million opening-weekend haul for a movie aimed at adult audiences seems like a win. That is, until you take into account the film's $90 million reported budget and star-studded cast. The movie in question, director Bart Layton's Crime 101, received highly positive reviews upon release, but is projected to gross only around $7 million in its second weekend. As things stand, it has virtually no chance of recouping its reported budget, let alone making a profit theatrically. Like so many movies of its kind, Crime 101 will have to rely on the PVOD market to bounce back. However, it can now celebrate having overtaken the admittedly underwhelming lifetime haul of one of Chris Hemsworth's early vehicles, and a Tom Hardy movie targeted at a similar demographic over a decade ago.

Besides Hemsworth, Crime 101 features Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Halle Berry, Monica Barbaro, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Nolte, and Corey Hawkins in supporting roles. The movie holds a "Certified Fresh" 87% critics' score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, "Crime 101 has studied the greats of L.A. Noir closely and shows its homework with sleek action set pieces and vivid characterizations, receiving top marks and graduating near the top of its class." In his review, Collider's Aidan Kelley wrote, "The fingerprints of other all-time hits from crime movies' past are undeniably present, and perhaps there's one too many of them, but they don't stop Crime 101 from showing that it has the formula behind a great, entertaining crime thriller down to a tee."

Here are the Two Crime Movies 'Crime 101' Has Overtaken

With $30 million at the worldwide box office so far, Crime 101 has overtaken the $20 million lifetime haul of Michael Mann's 2015 thriller Blackhat and the $19 million lifetime haul of Hardy's 2014 movie The Drop, which was also one of the final roles of The Sopranos icon James Gandolfini. Based on a book by Shutter Island and Gone Baby Gone writer Dennis Lehane, The Drop was directed by Michaël R. Roskam and featured Hardy as a character who is quite similar to the fixer he currently plays in the hit Paramount+ series MobLand. The Drop earned positive reviews — it holds an 89% score on Rotten Tomatoes — and remains one of Hardy's most underrated movies. You can check it out at home while Crime 101 is playing in theaters. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.