Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry and Mark Ruffalo brought Bart Layton’s Crime 101, a Los Angeles heist thriller from a Don Winslow novella, to its first screening in Leicester Square.
Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry and Mark Ruffalo brought Crime 101 to the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in the West End on Wednesday 28 January 2026. The European gala screening came sixteen days before the film’s release.
Bart Layton, the London-born maker of The Imposter and American Animals, wrote and directed the film from Don Winslow’s 2020 novella.
Hemsworth plays a disciplined jewel thief who escapes each robbery along the 101 freeway in Los Angeles. Berry plays an insurance broker at her own crossroads, and Ruffalo the detective closing in on them both. Corey Hawkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nick Nolte complete the cast.
Hemsworth became known in Australia as Kim Hyde in Home and Away, and has played Thor in eleven Marvel films since 2011. Berry became the first African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Monster’s Ball.
Barry Keoghan and Monica Barbaro, also of the cast, joined them and Layton on the carpet. The film reached British and American cinemas on 13 February.