New Trailers: Spider-Noir, Scarpetta and Vladimir
📺 Nicolas Cage swings through 1930s New York as a fedora-clad superhero sleuth, Nicole Kidman reopens a decades-old murder mystery, and Rachel Weisz narrates her own seductive midlife unraveling.
📺 “Spider-Noir” Official Teaser Trailer: Nicolas Cage Swings Into 1930s New York as a Hard-Boiled Web-Slinging Gumshoe in This Pulp-Soaked Superhero Series — Premiering Mon, May 25th on MGM+ and Wed, May 27th on Prime Video
Listen to this pitch: Humphrey Bogart from those classic detective noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep… but Spider-Man. Like, what if hard-boiled private eye Sam Spade was secretly swinging through the city as a web-slinging masked superhero? And to top it all off, we get Nicolas Cage to star in it.
Now, that might sound like a weird dream someone had after a night of reading Spider-Man comics and bingeing 1930s and 1940s crime films on TCM… but it’s actually a real thing.
And here’s our first look at the highly anticipated series Spider-Noir, featuring a brooding Nicolas Cage donning a fedora and thick overcoat in 1930s New York, getting into plenty of fistfights while protecting the city as your not-so-friendly neighborhood superhero gumshoe.
Based on the alternate Marvel comic from the 2010 Marvel Noir universe — where some of Marvel’s most popular heroes were given a pulp-fiction makeover in a line of one-shot miniseries — this upcoming Amazon superhero show follows Ben Reilly (Cage), a down-on-his-luck, jaded, and largely drunken private investigator forced to confront his past life as the city’s one and only masked vigilante after a deeply personal tragedy drags him out of the shadows and back into the spotlight, once again taking up the mantle of Spider-Man.
The series is executive produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the duo behind the Oscar-winning animated blockbusters Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. And if you remember, Nicolas Cage voiced Spider-Man Noir in a scene-stealing supporting turn in the first animated film, which ultimately led to him being attached to this live-action series.
Using the visual motifs of classic noir — complete with a 1930s and ’40s aesthetic, dramatic stark lighting, dimly lit streets, and smoke-choked alleyways — yet distinctly a Spider-Man hero adventure, the series blends hard-boiled grit with comic-book pulp, leaning into the shadow and cynicism of a superhero grappling with the ghosts of his past.
Joining Cage is Lamorne Morris (New Girl) as Reilly’s best friend, ambitious journalist Robbie Robertson, while Li Jun Li (from Sinners) smolders as femme fatale nightclub singer Cat Hardy. Rounding out the cast are Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, and Jack Huston, with Brendan Gleeson taking on the role of mob boss Silvermane.
With Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot serving as co-showrunners, and Lord, Miller, and Amy Pascal executive producing, this eight-episode limited series will be released in two formats for viewers to choose from: “Authentic Black & White” or “True-Hue Full Color.” But to be honest, if you want that real noir flavor, black and white feels like the only true pick, right?
Spider-Noir swings exclusively onto MGM+ Monday, May 25th, before landing globally on Prime Video Wednesday, May 27th.
📺 “Scarpetta” Trailer: Nicole Kidman Reopens a Decades-Old Cold Case in This Forensic Crime Thriller Series Based on Patricia Cornwell’s Bestselling Novels — Premiering Wed, March 11th on Prime Video
Some cold cases stay cold forever. But the truth has a way of clawing its way back to the surface, no matter how long it’s been buried. And with each passing year, those questions only grow louder... until they’re impossible to ignore.
Nicole Kidman stars in this new procedural crime thriller series, playing a brilliant forensic pathologist who, after decades in the profession, returns to investigate her very first case and finally confront the one mystery that has haunted her career from the beginning. But what she discovers may reopen old wounds and a past she believed had long since been laid to rest.
Based on the best-selling novels by Patricia Cornwell, Scarpetta casts Kidman as Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a nearly 28-year veteran medical examiner and forensic expert determined to crack the cold case that has lingered like a shadow over her otherwise decorated career. Now smarter and more seasoned, Scarpetta heads back to her hometown to unravel a decade-old mystery involving the grisly murders of two women killed in similar fashion, decades apart, and possibly linked by the same serial killer.
The hunt is on for a predator who has been hiding for decades. But the consequences reach farther than Scarpetta wants to admit, as her obsession begins to consume not only her professional life but her personal and family life as well — including her FBI investigator husband (played by Simon Baker), her older sister (Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis), and her sister’s daughter (Oscar winner Ariana DeBose), all pulled into the widening fallout of the case.
Shifting between present day and 1998, the series also features rising British actress Rosy McEwen (The Alienist, Black Mirror: Bête Noire) as the younger Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Bobby Cannavale takes on the role of Scarpetta’s former homicide detective partner Pete Marino, while his real-life son Jake Cannavale portrays the younger version of Marino.
The supporting cast includes Sosie Bacon, Janet Montgomery, Mike Vogel, Tiya Sircar, and Anna Diop. Filmmaker David Gordon Green (of the recent Halloween trilogy) directs the pilot episode from a script by Emmy-nominated showrunner Liz Sarnoff (Barry, Lost), with Jason Blum executive producing under Blumhouse Television.
Scarpetta is scheduled to premiere Wednesday, March 11th on Prime Video.
📺 “Vladimir” Trailer: Rachel Weisz Breaks the Fourth Wall as a Professor Embarking on a Seductive Affair with Leo Woodall in This Provocative Series Based on Julia May Jonas’s Bestseller — Premiering Thurs, March 5th on Netflix
Rachel Weisz gives into temptation. And she’s not just feeling it… she’s narrating every step of her extramarital affair in this new Netflix limited series where a career block collides with desire, and the lines between confession and self-justification blur in dangerously seductive ways.
Based on Julia May Jonas’s acclaimed novel, which she adapts herself and serves as executive producer and showrunner, Vladimir is a provocative eight-episode series that dives headfirst into obsession, aging, and the shifting dynamics of power. With a darkly sly tone, Rachel Weisz plays a college professor, best-selling author, and mother who—very much like Ferris Bueller—breaks the fourth wall to narrate how she begins an affair with a much younger faculty colleague, right under the nose of her husband (Mad Men’s John Slattery), with whom she shares an open marriage.
She finds herself at one of the most chaotic and vulnerable moments of her life. Her once-buzzy writing career is stalled by writer’s block, her students dismiss her as outdated, and even her daughter (Ellen Robertson) seems to be pulling away. Meanwhile, her husband, also a professor, is suspended amid resurfaced allegations involving former students—a scandal that threatens to drag her down with him.
And then there’s Vladimir.
Enter the handsome new faculty hire, played by Leo Woodall (The White Lotus: Season 2), who becomes less a colleague and more a fixation. What begins as flirtation slowly morphs into calculated seduction, her fantasies swelling to a point where they’re almost too much to contain.
As she speaks directly to us—winking, confessing, curating her own narrative—we start to wonder if we’re watching the truth or the version she wants us to see. At what point does obsession stop being a story she’s telling… and start becoming the one she can’t control?
Directing duo Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (American Splendor, Succession, Only Murders in the Building) helm the first two episodes. Joining Weisz, Woodall, Slattery, and Robertson are Jessica Henwick, Kayli Carter, and Matt Walsh.
Vladimir premieres Thursday, March 5th on Netflix.