Renée Zellweger and Logan Lerman Play Billionaire Murder Suspects in First ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 5 Trailer

Season 5 of Only Murders in the Building is nearly upon us, and now there’s a new poster, release date, and trailer — starring Logan Lerman and Renée Zellweger as some of the world’s richest individuals — to prove it.

On Tuesday, Hulu announced that the Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Martin Short-led comedy series will return for another Big Apple adventure on Tuesday, September 9, debuting the first three episodes and then moving to weekly release after, rolling out through late October.

“After their beloved doorman, Lester (Teddy Coluca), dies under suspicious circumstances, Charles, Oliver, and Mabel refuse to believe it was an accident. Their investigation plunges them into the shadowy corners of New York and beyond — where the trio uncovers a dangerous web of secrets connecting powerful billionaires, old-school mobsters, and the mysterious residents of the Arconia,” a description for Season 5 reads, teasing the arrival of Zellweger, Lerman, and Christoph Waltz’s characters.

It continues, “The trio discovers a deeper divide between their storied city they thought they knew and the new New York evolving around them — one where the old mob fights to hold on as newer, even more dangerous players emerge.”

Based on the newly-dropped trailer, it appears that Lerman, Zellweger, and Waltz will be playing three meddling billionaires who the trio stumble upon while investigating Lester’s death, which appears to be tied in some way to old-school mobsters of NYC… or Staten Island, according to the video. It’s unclear how this new cast of characters each made their money but the murder board in the trailer tells us that Lerman is playing Jay Pflug, Zellweger is playing Camila White, and Waltz is portraying Bash Steed.

After the trip to La La Land (aka Los Angeles) in Season 4 where Eva Longoria, Zach Galifianakis, and Eugene Levy all guest-starred as themselves, Season 5 is bringing in Bobby Cannavale, Keegan-Michael Key, Beanie Feldstein, Dianne Wiest, and Jermaine Fowler in secret roles. Also appearing in Season 5 is Téa Leoni, who made a surprise appearance in the final moments of the Season 4 finale, playing Sofia Caccimelio, the wife of Nicky Caccimelio — the missing “Dry Cleaning King of Brooklyn” introduced via a news clip in the penultimate episode.

No word on who is playing Nicky — we predict it could be Cannavale, who the trailer shows interacting with Lester prior to his death — but it appears Nicky’s disappearance will play a role in the fifth season, although that will just have to be revealed when the new episodes air.

Along with the release date’s announcement and the trailer, the streaming service dropped the first poster for Season 5, which sees Mabel, Oliver, and Charles sitting and standing on a skyline built out of cards, with the tagline, “The building always wins,” teasing a foray into the underbelly of New York City gangsters, something co-creator John Hoffman alluded to in a DECIDER interview last year.

“Our beloved doorman has a hold of a large amount of tenants in our buildings’ secrets and many other things about his life were interesting for me to sort of explore. The very nature of a doorman in a pre-war apartment building, a New York City in 2025. [It] felt very, very interesting to look at in terms of what our show has always been about, which is classic meets newer,” Hoffman shared. We really are dipping our toe into a New York City in Season 5 that feels particularly ripped from the headlines in certain ways that we’ve not done before.”

The first four seasons of Only Murders In The Building are now streaming on Hulu and Disney+. Season 5 premieres on Tuesday, September 9.

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