Jason Statham’s 'The Expendables' franchise — all 4 films land on Netflix Feb. 1

MovieWeb reports that all four films in the Expendables franchise will arrive on Netflix on Feb. 1, bringing Jason Statham’s early action work back to a single streaming home. The series kicked off with The Expendables in 2010, which opened Aug. 13 and debuted atop the U.S. box office with $34.8 million on its opening weekend.

The first film went on to gross $274.5 million worldwide on a roughly $80 million budget, prompting Lionsgate to build a franchise. The sequel, The Expendables 2 (2012), added stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris and holds the franchise’s best Rotten Tomatoes score at 68%.

By contrast, MovieWeb notes the first, third and fourth films register at 41%, 32% and 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, respectively. Audience fatigue set in by the third film (2014), which earned $214 million against a $100 million budget and was the franchise’s lowest grosser at the time.

After nearly a decade away, The Expendables 4 (2023) reunited Statham and Sylvester Stallone alongside Dolph Lundgren and Randy Couture, but several past contributors — including Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, Jet Li and Terry Crews — declined to participate; MovieWeb cites Crews’ claim that he was sexually assaulted by Stallone’s agent, Adam Venit.

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