Guy Ritchie’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Leaving Starz in March

Not one to accept defeat, director Guy Ritchie remains prolific despite a spotty track record. Many of his recent projects have fared poorly with critics, underperformed commercially, or both, and he has shifted much of his output to streaming — The Gentlemen and MobLand are on Netflix and Paramount+, with a third show on Prime Video.

One of his most expensive theatrical films, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, will become harder to access when it leaves Starz in March. The movie cost a reported $60 million to produce but managed to gross only $29 million globally. Like Aladdin, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre before it, it could've started a franchise, but it didn't.

The film underperformed despite a stacked cast — Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Henry Golding, Eiza González and Alex Pettyfer — and earned mixed reviews, sitting at a 68% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Its strong 89% audience score helps explain its continued success on digital and streaming charts.

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