‘Cross’ Star Aldis Hodge Is Pushing Himself To Raise the Stakes for Season 2
Jun 17, 2025
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Season 1 of Cross.]
Summary
Award recognition should be on the horizon this season for Aldis Hodge’s authentic portrayal of Detective Alex Cross.
Hodge hints at an evolved Cross in Season 2, reflecting on personal growth and character dynamics.
Collaborating with Isaiah Mustafa and strong industry support contribute to a positive experience on the show.
In Season 1 of the Prime Video crime thriller series Cross, Detective Alex Cross (Aldis Hodge) not only faced off with a sadistic serial killer, but he also finally got answers about the death of his wife. While closure never fully fills the void when it comes to the loss of a loved one, seeking out therapy and opening up about his wife and his grief could help Cross move forward. One thing is for certain, Cross will continue with all the drama, action and villainy set up in the first season for Season 2, with more of the partnership/brotherhood between Alex and John Sampson (Isaiah Mustafah) and whatever FBI agent Kayla Craig (Alona Tal) is up to. Award season is just starting to kick into gear and Emmy voting has begun, with TV Academy members selecting their nominees. Perfectly cast in the role of Alex Cross, Hodge is utterly believable in every way, as the determined detective, grieving widow, loyal best friend, and lost father trying to find his footing again. Hopefully, that will all translate into some much-deserved award recognition this season. Collider got the opportunity to chat with Hodge about all things Cross, and while he was very tight-lipped on details for Season 2, he did give a few hints to provide some insight into what fans can expect next. During the interview, he discussed what it might look like if Cross ever teamed up with another Prime Video character known by just his last name, leading a project that checked every box for him, all the years he’s spent learning how to navigate an industry he wants to continue working in, what he’s loved most about this version of Alex Cross, his desire to meet challenges that push him into unknown spaces, who he’s looked to for leadership examples, and how important the Cross and Sampson relationship is. He also talked about how getting answers about his wife could change Cross moving forward, why he doesn’t feel any pressure about Season 2 and beyond, the conversations that he and showrunner Ben Watkins are having about Season 3, and how it’s all just going to get more interesting.
A Crossover Team-Up Between Cross and Reacher Could Be Fun
“I think they’re both individual men on a mission – a mission of morality.”
Image via Prime Video
Collider: You share Prime Video space with another character known by just his last name. What do you think Cross and Reacher would think of each other? If you got to do a crossover episode, could you ever see them working together, or would they not work well together? ALDIS HODGE: I think a crossover would be cool. They definitely have different styles. Cross might have to pull Reacher back a couple times and be like, “Buddy, let’s use our heads. We ain’t got to bust through every single wall we see. Come on now.” That would be interesting. In terms of where they find similarities, to be honest with you, I think they’re both individual men on a mission – a mission of morality. They have a very difficult job to do. They probably carry the weight of the world from a perspective that nobody else understands or knows, which is why they’re willing to throw themselves on the fire for what it is that they believe in. I think that’s where they share complicity. They just have different ways of executing. This is really the type of character in the type of project that so many actors would dream of getting to do. What’s it like to be at a place in your career where not only can you step into a project like this, but you could lead it and really lean all the way into it? HODGE: It’s something that I had to actively take a step back to acknowledge. Where I’m at in my career, I still feel like I’m building. You’re always going to be in a place of building. I feel like I had to understand the ease or the earned privilege of being in a space like this where I do get this kind of opportunity because it is a dream job. It is actually something that I was looking for, after I finished my previous series, City on a Hill. It took a minute. It was almost a year of saying no to projects because they didn’t check all the boxes of where I wanted to grow. And then, Cross came up and it hit every single box, as far as the opportunity, the partnerships that we were dealing with, and the representation of the character in his capacity. That, to me, was a reaffirmation of faith and the value of being patient for things that come. When I think about where I’m at in my career, I’m very much under the impression, as I’m continuing to pursue other opportunities that are still difficult to get that, “Okay, you still got to hustle. You still got more to fight for.” I don’t think I’ll ever be out of that mentality. I’m just happy that this opportunity came as it did when it did.
Related
‘Cross’ Review: Aldis Hodge Is Perfect as James Patterson’s Iconic Detective
‘Cross’ may not reinvent the crime show, but it’s elevated by Hodge’s winning performance.
It must be a little nerve-wracking, as you’re turning down projects, to wonder if what you were looking for was ever going to come along? HODGE: I’ve been in this career since I was a baby, so I don’t know any other reality. It is a nerve-wracking industry, for certain. You don’t know. Even right now as we speak, there seems to be a lull in the business. There are a lot of things that have been pushed back and there are a lot of properties that have either a hard time getting their funding and pushing up to production or coming together. It’s almost like a state of hypervigilance where you know for certain that you don’t know what that next check and that next great job is going to come from, so you’re constantly working towards it. The reason why a job like Cross is such a blessing is that it does check off the creative and the personal boxes for satisfaction, as well as the professional boxes. You also feel safer because of the teams that you’re working with, and the trust and the faith that has been given to you. At the end of the day, while I’m hustling for anything and everything else and still trying to grow, to know that I have this and that I can be proud of and assured of it offers some comfort. You’re always going to be in the storm. Regardless of where you’re at in your career, there’s a small, tiny bit of you that’s going to be in the storm, trying to hustle to get that next project going. Your showrunner, Ben Watkins, has talked about how you guys want audiences to show up for the crime, but stay for the characters. What have you loved most about Alex Cross and what this version on this show has allowed you to do and explore? HODGE: Just the relationship with the audience, and to see how it impacts people, what they connect with, and who they connect to. They love the narratives. They love the relationships. I think that’s what Ben means. He’s a crime junkie, as am I, when it comes to TV shows. It’s so easy to lay out the foundation for a story around a crime. But it’s harder to endear people when it comes to the characters that they’re watching do the task of hunting down the criminal, or the criminal themselves engaging in their malicious intent. With this, especially with it being a show, we’ve got to really explore the relationships for who they are individually as human beings. The opportunity for Cross being who he is, we get to see the man and the father, we get to see who that person is internally, we get to see Sampson and what he’s going through in their relationship, we get to see Ramsey, who albeit is our villain, but we also get to understand the machinations that go through his head as an individual, which is really quite interesting. If that’s what I have to look forward to, as an audience member, every single season, I’m already in because I want to understand how people move, how they think, how they make their choices. It’s one of those things where, because the audience responds so well to the relationships, we do have a duty and a responsibility to continually lead them in progressively interesting storylines. We know that commitment is going to be there because they love the characters. For us, that’s the most that we could ask for as creatives, and we are so grateful for that.
Aldis Hodge Is Always Looking for Challenges and ‘Cross’ Provides Plenty of That
“I have a voracious appetite for challenges that push me to unknown spaces.”
Image via Prime Video
I’ve seen you in Clemency, so I know what you’re capable of as an actor, but were you sure that you could pull this off? Did you have that confidence in yourself that you could embody the character the way you feel it needs to be brought to life, or are you just looking for a challenge to keep pushing yourself? HODGE: I have a voracious appetite for challenges that push me to unknown spaces. That’s the whole point of me being a creator. I’ve been doing this job for a very long time, and most times, I get bored with myself. I’m like, “Okay, I know who I am here. I know who I am in this space.” I’m looking for things to help me evolve. I want to continually grow and I want to become the best version of myself in any capacity. If I’m doing a role, I want to be able to take three different roles that make me check similar boxes, but I want you to be able to put all those roles in the same room. I want them to be so far distinguished that all three can have a conversation with one another, and you can recognize the differences. I want to be that specific and that intentional. I’m constantly looking for challenges. I do have confidence in myself that I can stand up to any challenge that I have, but I’m also aware that, with that confidence and the ability to stand up to any challenge, also comes from the necessity to learn. I can’t stand in the same spot doing the same things and expect different results. I want to learn. That’s what this opportunity presented. I’m looking for a classroom and education. I told them, “Look, you’re going to be my teacher, bro. I want to be a better producer. I want to be a better writer. I want to make it a better story. You’re going to teach me.” And Ben was like, “All right, let’s go.” Before you stepped onto the set as an EP and as the number one on the call sheet, which number ones in your career did you think of? Were there leaders that you looked up to, as you moved through your career, that inspired you to want to lead and set the tone the way that you do now? HODGE: When it comes to leadership, I think of political leaders and how they move because of their morality. In particular, somebody that I really quite admire is a man named Thomas Sankara, who I would love to play in a life story biopic one day because his story needs to be told. I think about guys like him or Patrice Lumumba or James Baldwin, with the principles that they carry. I understand how they impacted me, and then I’ll throw that in, not intentionally, but these are things that naturally shaped me and I might throw that into a character. Right now, we have Ibrahim Traoré, who’s now the leader of Burkina Faso, and he’s making some real advantageous moves for his people, which I greatly revere. I think about leadership like that. We’re looking to shape human beings based on real lived experience, so I have to pull from real accounts of that experience for a depiction, or a reiteration of said depiction. Outside of that, I know what I grew up with. My mother is a leader and I really look to her for who and what she has been to me in my life and how she’s gone through and traversed difficulties. That’s really where I pull from. I rarely, if ever, pull from another artist in the actor space. I respect and love a lot of great actors, and I love a lot of great performances out there, but mimicry is not something I aspire to. When it comes to my work, I’m looking for exploration. It feels like the story of Season 1, with Cross getting these answers about his wife, is something you had to do before you could move on in the story. Everything that happened to him up until the start of Season 1 shaped who we met. Who will he be now? What new sides of him might we see in Season 2? HODGE: I wish I could tell you.
According to Aldis Hodge, the Events of Season 1 Will Affect Alex Cross in Season 2
“You will see an evolved version of Cross.”
I’m not asking you to reveal anything. I just want to know, are there things about him and aspects of him that you are interested in? HODGE: I can’t be specific, but I can generally say you will see an evolved version of Cross. That’s all I can safely say before I get fired. Now that he has these answers, will it make him different in any way? Once you get the answers you’re looking for, does that change you? HODGE: I think about it linearly in real life. I liken it to my own personal experiences of loss, and what that value has through time. I think that he dealt with that, in particular, in the first season. We will see how that shapes him. Through the visage of grief, we are actually challenging our own relationship with ourselves. That’s why I say we’ll see an evolved version of him in the second season because he has gone through that experience. We’ve seen that experience. Now, what does that mean when he’s trying to move forward in life? I don’t want to say that it’s moving on. It’s not like you move on and just forget something, but you move forward. These things have created some foundational tentpoles for you to grow from. He was in therapy at the end. HODGE: Exactly. It’s just a matter of whether he says in that therapy. HODGE: You know I can’t tell you that. I wish I could tell you.
Related
Prime Video’s ‘Cross’ Didn’t Adapt a James Patterson Story, But It Still Took the Best Part of the Books
This dynamic is the best thing about ‘Cross.’
As an EP on a TV series that you also lead, when you have this great season that pushes certain boundaries, where do you feel the most pressure from, when it comes to a next season? Whether it was what Season 2 would be, and whether it’s what the next season after that will be, if it’s less about getting bigger and badder and more about the next step in the story, where do you set your own bar and how do you live up to that? HODGE: Personally, I have an insane bar. I’m always trying to shoot for the stars. I push myself in life with anything that I do to the maximum. In fact, it was to a point where a buddy of mine told me that rest is a discipline that I need to apply. But I also try to acknowledge the benefits of the team that I have. I have absolute faith in the team, and I try to look at our history, to navigate what the trajectory looks like and eliminate points of pressure. I look at what works, what doesn’t work, and how we drove through those obstacles to get to the success that we were able to achieve. I said, “Okay, cool, this is the formula.” Now, when it comes to another season and another story, all we have to do is review the things that we already have a playbook and a blueprint for. I just rely on that to eliminate pressure as much as possible. To be honest, I don’t feel any pressure moving into another season because the producers are fantastic, my producing team and the writers, are incredible, our studio partners are amazing because have such immense support, and the actors are just top tier. Because we have that, I can say, for one of the first times in my career, I have no pressure whatsoever. I know where the protective measures are. I know where our strengths are. Especially with our cast, they work so hard that if there’s anybody who may come into the fold that may have any doubts, even about themselves, I know that they push themselves as hard as we push ourselves to meet the bar. They all accomplish that. I know everybody’s doing their best, and because they’re doing their best, I feel really self-assured.
Aldis Hodge and Showrunner Ben Watkins Are Taking ‘Cross’ Season by Season
“We don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves.”
Image via Prime Video
As an EP on the show, you get to be a part of conversations that you wouldn’t be a part of if you were just an actor on the show. Have you already had conversations about Season 3? You snuck shooting Season 2 under everybody’s radar. Were you already talking about Season 2 and Season 3 and even beyond that from the beginning, or are you taking this season by season? HODGE: We take it step by step because we don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves. Even if we say, “This is what Season 4 looks like, and Season 5,” that doesn’t exist unless we perfect the season we’re on now. Before you’re even thinking about Season 2, it’s about what makes Season 1 work. It built the framework for how we approached Season 2, and then we knocked out Season 2. Ben and I have discussed what we’re looking for, in the event of a Season 3. We’re having those conversations. We hope that pickup will come and we feel strongly about it, but you never count your chickens before the eggs hatch. But I feel very confident. Were you a part of the decision not to follow a specific book with each season, like some shows do? HODGE: No, that was a decision made prior to me coming on. I think that was a decision Ben made. It was a part of his discussions when he was approached to adapt this property. The thing that I love about it is that it gives us creative freedom to take these characters and these stories, and take what we love about the foundation of the book series, and explore different areas because we now serve as an additive asset when it comes to the narrative. People have the books and they love the books, and then they can watch the show and get more stories that they’re not anticipating. For me, I love to look forward to something new. People don’t know what to expect each season, which is amazing. And for the audience, the thing that I really enjoy is that, with our own iterations, we get to introduce them to the rest of the world of Cross, in different areas and in different ways with different relationships. And then, we get to expound on the relationships they do know and show them what that really is. There are a lot of benefits to being able to create our own original stories. I’m just really happy that the teams and James Patterson signed on to support that.
Related
This Character Will Have an Elevated Role in Prime Video’s ‘Cross’ Season 2
The murder mystery series is currently streaming on Prime Video.
What are you going to shoot next? I feel like you’re not going to sit around and wait for the third season to start, so what do you have lined up? HODGE: Right now, most of the time, my days are stuck knee-deep in development. I have a couple of projects that I’m producing and developing, and a couple projects that I’m writing. I’m trying to pitch, trying to sell, and trying to hustle and put things together. I’m also preparing for a Season 3. if that happens. My days right now are stuck in developing other projects. That’s actually a lot of work, but it’s a lot of fun too. I heard the story that you’ve told about how it was your brother, Edwin Hodge, that had the audition for Die Hard, and that your mom talked you into it once you guys were already there. When you were that age, were you thinking of acting as a career? Was it something that was just fun to do? When did you get serious about it and want to focus on the craft? HODGE: We were always focused on the craft because our mom made us treat it like an elective, like a sport. We were not allowed to go on auditions if we started failing in school. There was no such thing as bringing home a C or a D. We had to bring As and Bs because, at the end of the day, career or no career, education was the priority. Acting was the privilege that we had to earn. She was definitely not a stage mom. She gave us a childhood. She was a fantastic parent and made sure that we understood where the focus needed to go. It was something I just understood. It was something that was fun, and as a kid at that age, all you want to do is keep having fun and doing your best. The first time my brother and I stepped on stage on Broadway, we were nine and 10 years old, and we just needed to learn a lot. Where I started changing my relationship with the industry, because I understood how it treated me, was when I was 12 years old. I understood the politics. I did a pilot for a show that myself along with two other cast members got fired from because when they tested the pilot, our characters tested higher in popularity than the lead character, and my character tested the highest. I think the lead character’s parents had some sway and some influence, so they got rid of us, which didn’t make sense. The show got picked up, it aired one episode, and they canceled it because it wasn’t good. At 12, you feel like, “Oh, man, I’m about to go buy my mom a house,” and then you realize they treat you like contraband. I said, “I never want to be in this position again,” so I started writing scripts around 12 or 13. I really tried to understand who I was and what I wanted to do in this business, so I could never feel like waste again because that’s exactly what I felt like and it really formulated my thought process. My thought process continued to grow and evolve and mature over time, job to job, but that’s where I said, “I never want to feel like I’m used by this industry, ever again.” I love that you were able to be aware enough that you didn’t take it so personally that you quit. Instead, you went out and created opportunities for yourself. HODGE: To that point, specifically, I had many years of negating those thought processes. Coming up, back in the ‘90s, I had dealt with so much. I would walk into rooms and they would say, “Oh, you’re too dark for this,” when I was 7, 8, 9, 10 years old. I’d come home and my mom would be the one to reinforce my values and say, “Don’t worry about it. One of these days they’re going to love you for your chocolate skin.” I would walk into rooms where, because my brother and I spoke a certain way, they would say, “You’re not black enough.” You’re like, “Wait what?” And they’d be like, “Because you’re too articulate,” not taking into account that Black people and Black culture have always been intelligent, have always been elegant, have always been eloquent. We’ve always been articulate, but I’m dealing with ignorant people who don’t regard the nature of my culture. I’d already had many years built up of trying to learn how to believe in myself against the negations of the world. I was like, “I know it can’t be me.” Trying to instill self-worth and self-love through these processes is quite an ordeal, but I knew that I wasn’t the problem. I had to understand what the actual problem was. When you learn that, you say, “Oh, yeah, this is a business.” People say, “Oh, it’s an art form.” No, it’s a business, first and foremost. You understand how to measure and scale your art form in a way that’s beneficial to you, but if you don’t have an acumen for business, then your art will suffer. I’m dealing with people who are in a position to decide on creative measures who actually have no purview, outlook, perspective, or actual respect for creators or artists. How can you be in a position to choose or decide the future of creativity when you have no real understanding of creativity or creators? I was like, “You know what? I can’t allow your negative perspective to shape who and what I think of myself or even what I do.” People don’t understand how deeply effective words are and can be when they’re talking to somebody where this is their livelihood, they have a dream, and this is how they breathe. I use my art to explore the world. I’m an extroverted introvert. I prefer my solitude. I had to become extroverted because of the world and because I wanted to grow in my business. I had to learn how to deal with people, but the way I explore the world is through my art, not through my love of people and not through my love of relationships. It’s through my love of exploring design, creativity, and art. When you have somebody who’s in a power position to steer that based on their bias, it’s a dangerous position to be in, but also one where you start learning how to get in front of your own destiny and set protective measures to protect yourself and your craft as much as possible. Which project was the first time you gave a performance where you really felt like, “Man, I get it, I know what it means to just give something your absolute all”? HODGE: That’s tough because I give my all to everything. That’s how my mom raised me. But I would say the first project that I saw where I was truly impressed with the emotional depths that I could reach was Clemency. I got to give a big shout to Chinonye Chukwu, who was the writer-director on that. The opportunity she gave me with that was insane. It was incredible. I’ve got to give love to Ms. Alfre Woodard, as well, for being my scene partner. Obviously, she was the leader of that film. She was a great leader and wonderful to work with. She was very giving and gracious. I think that’s the first time I saw myself and was like, “Yeah, I wanna keep doing stuff where I see myself and I watch my work and I’m like, ‘That’s different.’” Everything else was great, but I was very familiar with it and I had a lot of fun with it. With Clemency, I was like, “Can I hit what I’m trying to do? This is new for me, so can I really go deep there?” When I saw it, I was like, “Oh, damn, look at that.” Cross is definitely one of those. It pushes me way far past my limits of understanding. It really makes me stand up to the challenge and I’m so happy that I get to do that.
Aldis Hodge and Isaiah Mustafa Just Want To Lift Each Other Up in ‘Cross’
“I love working with this brother, every single day.”
Image via Prime Video
What’s it been like to find the relationship with Cross and Sampson? It’s an important relationship in the story, but you don’t know how the dynamic itself will play out until you’re in your character’s shoes and you have an actor in the other character’s shoes, and you’re sharing those scenes together. When did you realize what that relationship was, what it could be, and how you could really push that dynamic? HODGE: We read a couple of folks for Sampson. There were a lot of great brothers in there. There were a lot of great actors. Aside from his presence, Isaiah [Mustafa] just had that thing. Ben messed with him and was like, “Yeah, come down to the office.” This was after he had auditioned and Ben was like, “Come down and let’s talk.” Obviously, they were getting a little closer to solidifying everything and he was like, “I just want to talk to you.” So, Isaiah came down to the office and was sitting with Ben, and a couple of other producers were there and they were talking. Ben was like, “Yo, Al, come through.” And I was like, “All right, cool.” So I came through, and Isaiah wasn’t expecting me to be there. I showed up and we were having a chill night. I brought a bottle of one of my favorite tequilas, called Adictivo, which is really nice. I’m not a big drinker, but I like to sip a little bit, every now and then, just to keep it cool. So, we just sat there and talked and bonded for a couple of hours. The relationship we have on screen is fed by our relationship off-screen. I’ve really got to tip my hat to Isaiah because I love working with his brother, every single day. He’s so professional, gracious, and giving. He’s grateful when he comes to set. He’s not a complainer. It’s not about us when we’re there. If you’re going to be the lead, lead means leadership. You have to lead. It’s not about you. You’re in service to everybody around you, whether that’s 200 or 250 people with the cast and the crew, at any given time. He got that. He got the understanding of leadership. That’s why we work so well together. Also, when we’re in a scene, we’re not competing against each other. We’re competing for one another. I’m trying to push you harder, and you’re trying to push me harder. That’s why we’re safe enough to go to deep places with our characters when it comes to them being cool or when it comes to them fighting. As actors and professionals, we’re trying to push each other to our highest potential. That’s where you really find the magic with any show or any production with actors and characters. When you’ve got everybody on the team fighting to make everybody else better, it just raises and elevates the quality immensely. I’m just really grateful. All the actors really have that spirit, and I’m really grateful for Isaiah to be my ace. We really rely on one another, so for us to share that same spirit, I tip my hat to that brother. It is a joy and a pleasure working with him, every day. It’s like when I was working with Kevin Bacon on City on a Hill. Kev is a legend, but the man is so gracious. He’s seen a lot and he’s been through a lot. The thing that I love about him is his humility. He really comes to the table with a humble spirit. It’s the little things that I pick up on, in terms of what leadership actually looks like from someone with such a senior position and so much experience. You gotta keep those habits up because it’s never about you. It will never be just about you. It’s about how you can service your team to make the best possible product. When we come to the table with that, the results speak the truth and they reflect the truth.
1:12
Related
“It’s a Wilder Ride”: Aldis Hodge Teases the “Expansive” Scope of ‘Cross’ Season 2
“It’s a wilder ride than Season 1…”
It’s a fascinating relationship to watch because they can really go there with each other, but they’re still always there for each other. HODGE: They said some things that weren’t great, but that’s what families look like. Real friendship is not happy-go-lucky, 24/7. Real friendship is about, what does love look like when we’re fighting? How do we check on one another when we know, you’re going down a path that’s not good for you? I care for you. Right now, you don’t care about yourself. You’re manic and going off the rails, but because I care for you, I’m going to tell you the hard truths. That’s a real relationship. Ben emphasized honesty. He didn’t want to give the audience a caricature of what their friendship actually is. He wanted to give them real friendship and real brotherhood. I’m so grateful for that, just being a man myself and being able to watch that and understand, “This actually happens with me and my actual blood brother, and me and my brothers who are not blood. This is how we all get down. We hold each other accountable.” That’s what I want to continue to represent. I appreciate that was a part of Ben’s focus. He understood the value of that to the audience, and particularly men, and in particular Black men, who go through this on a regular basis and it’s not necessarily reflected in the media a lot, but for us, it’s natural, it’s common, and it’s real. We want to keep showing the beautiful facets of who and what we are as a community. Somebody’s got to keep an eye on whatever that special agent Kayla Craig is up to because I don’t know what’s up with her. HODGE: Somebody’s got to. I can’t speak to it. All I can say is that it gets interesting. It gets real interesting with Kayla Craig.
When it Comes to Making ‘Cross,’ Aldis Hodge Is Happy on All Fronts
“I’m just really happy to be a part of this production.”
Image via Prime Video
I am definitely looking forward to Season 2 and everything that comes after that. HODGE: Our writers and our producers do a fantastic job of really finding those Easter eggs to drop and then explore later in really interesting, creative ways. I’m just really happy to be a part of this production. Very rarely in my career can I say I’m happy when I’m doing what I’m doing, on all fronts. With this particular production, I’m happy. I’m just happy. I’ve got to give love to our distribution partner and our studio partner. They give us full support, and they give Ben full support. When he says, “I want the show to look like this, and it’s gonna be this.” They say, “All right, we trust you. Do your thing.” On some productions, you get a litany of notes. They’re just like, “Ben, we support you.” Honestly, it’s a big shout to Amazon, to Paramount TV that is now CBS as our studio partner, and then also to Skydance. Everybody jumps in because they believe in the vision and the dream. Part of understanding how to make it work is supporting Ben’s leadership, and they do that. I’m really happy about that because it’s not common that you get that kind of support. I’ve really got to thank them for that. It’s amazing.
Cross
Release Date
November 14, 2024
Directors
Craig Siebels, Nzingha Stewart
Writers
Ben Watkins
Franchise(s)
Alex Cross
Cross is available to stream on Prime Video. Check out the trailer:
Publisher: Source link
Erotic Horror Is Long On Innuendo, Short On Climax As It Fails To Deliver On A Promising Premise
Picture this: you splurge on a stunning estate on AirBnB for a romantic weekend with your long-time partner, only for another couple to show up having done the same, on a different app. With the hosts not responding to messages…
Oct 8, 2025
Desire, Duty, and Deception Collide
Carmen Emmi’s Plainclothes is an evocative, bruising romantic thriller that takes place in the shadowy underbelly of 1990s New York, where personal identity collides with institutional control. More than just a story about police work, the film is a taut…
Oct 8, 2025
Real-Life Couple Justin Long and Kate Bosworth Have Tons of Fun in a Creature Feature That Plays It Too Safe
In 2022, Justin Long and Kate Bosworth teamed up for the horror comedy House of Darkness. A year later, the actors got married and are now parents, so it's fun to see them working together again for another outing in…
Oct 6, 2025
Raoul Peck’s Everything Bagel Documentary Puts Too Much In the Author’s Mouth [TIFF]
Everyone has their own George Orwell and tends to think everyone else gets him wrong. As such, making a sprawling quasi-biographical documentary like “Orwell: 2+2=5” is a brave effort bound to exasperate people across the political spectrum. Even so, Raoul…
Oct 6, 2025







