If you need to know How to Rob a Bank, don’t start gassing up your getaway car just yet. The upcoming Nicholas Hoult–Zoë Kravitz thriller, which was originally set to break into theaters on the Labor Day weekend in September, is pushing back its heist plans. However, you won’t have to wait too long to see director David Leitch‘s latest high-octane actioner.
According to Deadline, How to Rob a Bank‘s release date has been pushed back two months, from September 4 to November 12. That moves it away from the horror thriller Onslaught and the Ryan Reynolds action comedy Mayday. Instead, it now shares a release date with The Great Beyond, J.J. Abrams’ first film in seven years; Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, starring Johnny Depp; I Play Rocky, Peter Farrelly‘s chronicle of Sylvester Stallone‘s struggle to get his boxing epic made; and Paper Tiger, a crime drama starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. Of course, any move towards the end of the year pushes the film closer to the Scylla and Charybdis of the 2026 box office: Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday, both of which are set to dominate the world’s multiplexes starting on December 18.
What Is ‘How to Rob a Bank’ About?
A platinum-tressed Hoult stars as Ryan, the leader of a masked heist gang (that also includes Anna Sawai, Pete Davidson, and Rhenzy Feliz) who have been pillaging and plundering the city’s financial institutions. To add insult to injury, they’re also going viral, advocating for the morality of armed robbery (albeit with automatic weapons full of blanks) and giving some of their ill-gotten gains to charity. A dogged detective (John C. Reilly) is on the case, and teams up with a hacker under house arrest (Kravitz) to track the gang down. He’d better hurry, because the gang’s next target is one of the biggest banks around, and there’s a personal grudge between Ryan and the bank’s unscrupulous boss (Christian Slater).
How to Rob a Bank is directed by John Wick‘s Leitch, from a script by Mark Bianculli (Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector). It is produced by Imagine’s Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody, Allan Mandelbaum and 87Eleven’s Kelly McCormick and Leitch.
How to Rob a Bank will be released on November 13, moving two months back from its previous release date of September 4. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
- Release Date
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September 3, 2026
- Writers
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Mark Bianculli
