Genre:

Biography, Drama, Sports

Release Date:

November 11, 2026 in select theaters
November 18, 2026 globally on Prime Video

Director:

David O. Russell

Cast:

Nicolas Cage, Christian Bale, Kathryn Hahn, Sienna Miller, John Mulaney, Shane Gillis

Plot Summary

Inspired by the life of John Madden, Madden chronicles his extraordinary career alongside Al Davis, from their championship run with the Raiders to Madden’s transformation into a broadcasting legend and the creation of the worldwide Madden NFL video game franchise.

Prime Video’s Spider-Noir will not be returning for a second season.

The live-action Marvel series starring Nicolas Cage has been canceled after one season, bringing an early end to one of Sony’s more unusual attempts to expand its Spider-Man universe on television.

Spider-Noir debuted earlier this year, with Cage starring as Ben Reilly, an aging private investigator living in 1930s New York who is forced to confront his past as the city’s masked superhero known as The Spider.

The eight-episode series premiered on MGM+ before arriving globally on Prime Video on May 27. One of the show’s biggest creative hooks was giving viewers the option to watch the entire series in either black and white or full color.

Despite its short run, Spider-Noir was well received by critics and audiences. The series currently holds a 92% critics score and 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly [MGM+]

The cancellation also comes as Sony continues to reassess its larger collection of Marvel projects based on characters connected to Spider-Man. The studio’s recent live-action efforts have struggled to build the kind of interconnected franchise once envisioned around films such as Morbius, Madame Web and Kraven the Hunter.

Cage’s involvement made Spider-Noir particularly notable. The actor previously voiced Spider-Man Noir in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse before making the jump to live action for the Prime Video series.

The cast also included Lamorne Morris as Robbie Robertson, Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston and Brendan Gleeson.

The series was developed by Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, with Spider-Verse filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller among its executive producers alongside Amy Pascal and Cage.

While Spider-Noir will end after a single season, all eight episodes remain available to stream on Prime Video.

Prime Video has found its new RoboCop.

Dan Stevens has been cast as Alex Murphy/RoboCop in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming live-action RoboCop television series, taking on one of science fiction’s most recognizable roles. The casting comes just over a month after Prime Video officially gave the project an eight-episode series order.

Stevens has built an increasingly diverse résumé in recent years, with credits including The Guest, Downton Abbey, Beauty and the Beast, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Cuckoo and Netflix’s Zero Day. Now, he’ll step into a role most famously played by Peter Weller in Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 original.

The new series will retain the central premise of the RoboCop franchise. According to the official logline, a massive technology conglomerate convinces a city to add a powerful robot to its police force, with the machine implanted with the consciousness of a beloved officer who was killed in the line of duty.

Peter Ocko, whose credits include Lodge 49 and Black Sails, will serve as writer, showrunner and executive producer. James Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett will executive produce through Blumhouse Atomic Monster, with Danielle Bozzone serving as co-executive producer.

The series will also have some important connections to the original film. RoboCop co-creators and co-writers Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner are aboard as executive producers.

RoboCop [Orion Pictures]

Wan previously spoke about his excitement for the project and the opportunity to revisit themes that helped make the original film so enduring, including technology, identity and corporate power. The producer said the team intends to honor what made Verhoeven’s film iconic while creating something new for a modern audience.

The original RoboCop hit theaters in 1987 and became a sci-fi classic, blending graphic action with sharp satire of corporate greed, privatization and consumer culture. Weller returned for RoboCop 2 in 1990 before Robert Burke took over the role in 1993’s RoboCop 3. The franchise was later rebooted on the big screen in 2014 with Joel Kinnaman as Murphy.

The franchise has continued beyond the movies through television, comics and video games, most recently finding success in gaming with RoboCop: Rogue City.

Prime Video has not yet announced a premiere date for the new RoboCop series.