Benedict Cumberbatch and Man Ritchie’s new thriller film, Spouse and Canine, receives a launch date and the primary story particulars. The movie has a star-studded forged that additionally contains Rosamund Pike, Anthony Hopkins, Cosmo Jarvis, Paddy Considine, and James Norton.
Spouse and Canine is now set to be launched in theaters on October 23. The story, directed and written by Ritchie, is centered on a succession battle among the many grasping Fairbank household and their associates, which ends up in betrayal and homicide.
The film is being distributed by Black Bear Photos, which additionally introduced a Might 22 theatrical debut within the U.S. for Tuner starring Dustin Hoffman and an August 22 launch for Matthew McConaughey’s The Rivals of Amziah King. Black Bear’s U.S. distribution was launched in July 2025, they usually intend to launch as much as 12 new motion pictures in theaters annually.
The announcement of Spouse and Canine‘s launch date and story particulars comes the identical day as MobLand season 2 was confirmed to be premiering in 2026. Ritchie is a director and government producer of the favored crime thriller sequence, which additionally stars Considine and the battle between harmful households.
Spouse and Canine additionally sounds paying homage to Succession if the characters had been keen to commit homicide with a view to inherit Logan Roy’s (Brian Cox) media empire. The HBO present was an enormous hit, which Ritchie’s new movie has the potential to capitalize on with its themes.
This isn’t Ritchie’s solely high-profile venture that releases in 2026, as Prime Video’s Younger Sherlock debuts on March 4. He’s directing a number of episodes of the sequence that stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin because the titular character, Dónal Finn as James Moriarty, Zine Tseng as Princess Gulun Shou’an, Colin Firth as Sir Bucephalus Hodge, Joseph Fiennes as Silas Holmes, and Max Irons as Mycroft Holmes.
Whereas there are a lot of Benedict Cumberbatch motion pictures and exhibits, Spouse and Canine is his first collaboration with Ritchie, regardless of each having labored extensively with the Sherlock Holmes IP earlier than. Cumberbatch performed the enduring detective within the BBC’s Sherlock sequence, and earlier than directing the Prime Video prequel, Ritchie directed the films Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: Sport of Shadows starring Robert Downey Jr.
Each Cumberbatch and his Spouse and Canine co-star Hopkins have been in quite a few Marvel Cinematic Universe motion pictures through their respective roles as Dr. Stephen Unusual and Odin. They each starred in Thor: Ragnarok, however their characters didn’t share any scenes collectively.